Persistent pneumonia?

summary

The course of pneumonia more than one month but less than three months is called persistent pneumonia, which often presents periodic recurrence and progressive aggravation. It is mainly seen in patients with malnutrition, rickets, congenital heart disease, low immune function, pulmonary tuberculosis, repeated respiratory tract infection and chronic sinusitis. What are the symptoms of persistent pneumonia?

Persistent pneumonia?

Shivering, high fever, many people with pneumonia are suddenly shivering symptoms, followed by fever, fever caused by pneumonia is generally high fever, the patient's temperature can exceed 39 degrees Celsius, and the patient's food intake will be reduced, however, some older, frail people with pneumonia may just have a low fever, or even no fever.

Cough, expectoration, pneumonia at the beginning of the onset, patients generally appear irritating dry cough, no phlegm, but soon will start to appear in the cough white mucus sputum, some patients with blood inside the sputum, and so on in two days, the patient's sputum will become bloody mucus sputum, some patients with sputum color run rust like.

Chest pain, pneumonia patients often appear side chest pain symptoms, and this kind of pain is more serious, just like holding a needle in the chest pain, chest pain symptoms will be more serious when coughing, and shoulder and even abdomen may be involved, produce pain.

matters needing attention

Because the occurrence of pneumonia will make the patient difficult to breathe, so it is easy to make the brain oxygen shortage, blood supply is affected, as a result, the patient will have the symptoms of drowsiness, some serious patients in addition to drowsiness, there may be confusion or even coma, need to be vigilant.