Asymptomatic pneumonia in the elderly?

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Compared with young people, the incidence rate and mortality rate of elderly pneumonia are increased in many ways, objectively, due to aging of the body, respiratory system anatomy and function changes, the local defense and immune function of the whole body and respiratory tract are reduced, and the functional reserve of important organs such as heart, lung, liver and kidney is weakened or suffering from many chronic serious diseases and malnutrition. The subjective reason is that doctors or patients themselves have insufficient understanding of the atypical clinical manifestations of senile pneumonia, delayed diagnosis and improper treatment. Asymptomatic pneumonia in the elderly? Let's talk about it

Asymptomatic pneumonia in the elderly?

In fact, fever and cough are dangerous signals sent by themselves. It is the autoimmune system that is fighting against the virus. But the immunity of the elderly has degenerated, pneumonia is often very atypical, a considerable number of elderly people suffering from pneumonia do not have a fever, some old people just asthma, and some old people do not cough. Even some people have nothing, just eat less or spirit is not so good.

Physiologically, due to the atrophy of the upper respiratory tract mucosa and glands, the decrease of mucus and saliva secretion, and the decline of the defense function of the mucosa mucus system, pathogens are easy to colonize and reproduce in the upper respiratory tract, which become the etiological conditions for the occurrence of senile pneumonia. The swallowing reflex is an important defense mechanism to prevent foreign bodies from entering the lower respiratory tract. Therefore, the incidence of upper respiratory tract pathogen inhalation in the elderly is significantly higher than that in the young.

Of course, for pneumonia, in our country, we generally consider some conservative treatment measures, especially for the elderly, we generally consider using some antibiotics to treat it, and for the elderly, the medication is relatively friendly. Because of the fear that the elderly will not be able to bear.

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Of course, people with pneumonia still need to be properly prevented after they are cured. We can consider prevention from the perspective of life, or vaccination against pneumonia,