Symptoms of pneumonia in the elderly?

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Many children will complain that their parents don't tell themselves in time when they are sick, so that their condition worsens. However, I don't know if you've ever thought about it. It's not that your parents don't want to tell you, but that even their parents don't find the symptoms of these diseases? Next, we will introduce the symptoms of pneumonia in the elderly.

Symptoms of pneumonia in the elderly?

Pneumonia mainly refers to the inflammation of the lungs, and the probability of elderly people suffering from this disease is relatively large. The main symptoms of elderly people after the disease are respiratory symptoms and systemic poisoning symptoms. If this disease is not treated in time, it may cause other diseases, which will seriously harm the health of patients.

Pneumonia in the elderly usually has no obvious symptoms at the initial stage of onset. Some patients even have no symptoms of cough, expectoration, fever and chest pain, but they will find that the temperature of the elderly is relatively low when taking the temperature. This is mainly due to the poor response ability of the elderly to infection and fever, Even if the patient is suffering from Streptococcus pneumoniae pneumonia, there are few signs such as shivering and high fever. Later, with the gradual aggravation of the disease, the elderly patients will have the symptoms of weak cough and phlegm. The more common symptoms are shortness of breath and dyspnea, but this symptom is very similar to respiratory tract infection, So it is easy to be misdiagnosed, once the misdiagnosis is serious, it is likely to lead to death.

In addition, the elderly patients with pneumonia will also have symptoms of systemic poisoning, which is different from respiratory symptoms. Respiratory symptoms mainly occur in the late stage of pneumonia, while systemic poisoning symptoms can generally appear in the early stage of the patient's illness. The main symptoms are mental malaise, fatigue, fatigue, etc Nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite and other symptoms, serious patients will also appear arrhythmia, heart rate increase, blurred consciousness and coma and other symptoms, but the typical signs of pulmonary consolidation in physical examination is relatively rare, when patients appear pulmonary moist rales, it is easy to be confused with chronic bronchitis and chronic heart failure.

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These are the symptoms of pneumonia in the elderly. We can find that in the early stage of the disease, there will only be some systemic toxic symptoms, and respiratory symptoms will only appear in the late stage. Therefore, the elderly should have timely examination after they feel unwell, Only in this way can the disease be found and treated as soon as possible, so that the disease can recover after early treatment.