Why does senile pneumonia not cough?
summary
For pneumonia patients with fever, more attention should be paid to drinking water, so these diseases seem very small, but cause great harm to the human body, which can not only make the body water loss be supplemented, but also conducive to the excretion of bacterial toxins and reduce body temperature. At the same time, eat more fruits, not a lot of fat rich food. Now let's share the knowledge about why senile pneumonia doesn't cough.
Why does senile pneumonia not cough?
First, the typical symptoms are sudden chills, high fever, body temperature as high as 39 ℃ - 40 ℃, showing the type of missed fever, accompanied by headache, soreness and weakness of muscles, poor appetite. After the use of antibiotics, the fever type is not typical, the elderly and the weak only have low fever or no fever.
Second: in the early stage, it is irritative dry cough, and then white mucus sputum or bloody sputum can be produced. After 1-2 days, mucus bloody sputum, rust colored sputum and purulent sputum can be produced. In the dissipation stage, the amount of sputum increases, and the sputum is yellow and thin.
Third: often has the intense chest pain, presents the acupuncture appearance, along with the cough or the deep breath but aggravates, may radiate to the shoulder or the abdomen. Lower lobe pneumonia can stimulate septal pleura and cause abdominal pain, which can be misdiagnosed as acute abdomen.
matters needing attention
For this disease: children with pneumonia, alveolar gas exchange is limited, there are varying degrees of hypoxia in the body. If the nasal cavity is blocked or there is a large amount of sputum in the trachea and bronchus, it will affect the inhalation of air and aggravate hypoxia. Therefore, parents should timely remove nasal secretions and suction sputum for children to keep the respiratory tract unobstructed, and to prevent choking caused by sticky sputum, milk and drugs. Indoor to maintain a certain humidity, avoid dry air, conducive to expectoration.
