Is pneumonia contagious in adults?

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Pneumonia should not be strange to us, because this disease is absolutely common in our life. If we are careless of pneumonia, it will also cause serious harm to our body. Everyone knows that lung is very important to our life. So we must pay attention to the protection of it at ordinary times, and the incidence rate of pneumonia is very high. Pneumonia is more difficult to treat, so learn more about the symptoms of pneumonia, so as to do a good job in prevention in time. What are the early symptoms of pneumonia? Let's take a look at the following.

Is pneumonia contagious in adults?

First: pneumonia often with severe chest pain, basically is the kind of acupuncture, with cough or deep breathing and aggravation, can radiate to the shoulder or abdomen. If you have pneumonia in the lower lobe, it can stimulate the septum pleura and cause severe abdominal pain. Sometimes it can be misdiagnosed as acute abdomen.

Second, there will be shivering and high fever. Sometimes, it will start with a sudden shivering and high fever will appear slowly. The body temperature can be as high as about 40 degrees, often accompanied by headache and muscle soreness, and the amount of food will be reduced correspondingly. It will be relieved after the use of antibiotics.

Third: there is also the problem of dyspnea in patients. Pneumonia will lead to dyspnea. Pneumonia will lead to insufficient ventilation, chest pain and toxemia, which will lead to dyspnea and rapid and shallow breathing. When the condition is serious, it will affect the gas exchange and cause the decrease of arterial oxygen saturation and cyanosis.

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Finally, we have to say that once we suspect that we have pneumonia, we should go to the hospital for further examination in time, make a definite diagnosis and treat it in time. After all, the disease of pneumonia is very dangerous, so we must not be careless.