Symptoms of acute pneumonia in adults

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Pneumonia is a disease that many people are familiar with. For example, frequent coughing may be caused by pneumonia. If you suffer from pneumonia, you must go to the hospital for treatment as soon as possible. Don't delay treatment for a long time. This is very unfavorable. Is it a symptom of acute pneumonia? Next, I'd like to share my views with you.

Symptoms of acute pneumonia in adults

The most common infectious pneumonia is fever, weakness, discomfort and other systemic symptoms, as well as cough, expectoration, chest pain, shortness of breath and other local symptoms. Pneumonia is inflammation of the lung parenchyma. Lung parenchyma is the part of the lung for gas exchange, which mainly refers to the terminal respiratory unit mainly composed of alveoli. Inflammation may spread to the whole lung or concentrate in limited areas.

Most of the pneumonia onset is acute, the course is short, the course is less than a month for acute pneumonia; The course of disease in 1 ~ 3 months is called persistent pneumonia; More than 3 months of chronic pneumonia. According to the way of infection, infectious pneumonia can be divided into aspiration pneumonia (including inhalation of infectious particles in the air, oropharyngeal secretions and gastric juice, etc.), hematogenous disseminated pneumonia and traumatic pneumonia (infection caused by chest penetrating injury, trauma caused by diagnostic or therapeutic operation of the lung, etc.). Pneumonia can be divided into primary pneumonia and secondary pneumonia.

If inflammation first occurs in the lung tissue, it is called primary pneumonia, which is mainly caused by pathogenic factors entering the lung through the airway. Secondary pneumonia generally refers to all pulmonary inflammatory complications in the case of systemic or pulmonary diseases, which may be caused by the spread of microorganisms in the original lesions outside the lung into the lung, while the original diseases cause the decline of systemic or pulmonary resistance, and the secondary pneumonia caused by the invasion of resident bacteria in the body into the lung tissue is more common.

matters needing attention

Provide high nutritional diet, encourage more drinking water, and adopt light and digestible semi liquid diet for patients with severe and high fever. Pay attention to ensure adequate sleep and proper rest, increase daytime bed rest time, adjust diet and ensure adequate energy intake.