Is viral pneumonia really serious?

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Viral pneumonia is a common respiratory tract infection, of course, this disease is not all caused by virus infection, only in the infection of virus infection accounted for more than 90%. The initial symptoms of patients with viral pneumonia are similar to cold, and may also be complicated with pharyngitis. The main pathogenic viruses of viral pneumonia are parainfluenza virus, cytomegalovirus and adenovirus. Some coronaviruses can also cause viral pneumonia. In addition, measles virus infection causes pneumonia when the body leans back. Let's share my experience with you.

Is viral pneumonia really serious?

Viral pneumonia in patients with initial performance is generally mild, symptoms are similar to pneumonia caused by mycoplasma infection. Patients with viral pneumonia are prone to headache, general weakness, body fever, patients will often cough, and cough with a small amount of viscous sputum.

If X-ray examination is carried out in patients with viral pneumonia, it can be found that there are spots or flake shadows in the lungs. The number of white blood cells in the blood of patients with this disease can be maintained at normal value, or slightly decreased. The whole course of viral pneumonia is generally maintained at about 1 to 2 weeks.

If patients with viral pneumonia accompanied by immunodeficiency, the condition is more serious. This type of patient has persistent high fever, palpitations and shortness of breath, which can be accompanied by dyspnea and shock symptoms. Patients with more severe condition may have heart failure.

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More serious viral pneumonia patients can appear interstitial and alveolar edema, patients are prone to respiratory distress syndrome, physical examination found that the lung has obvious moist rales, X-ray examination can find that the lung has diffuse nodule infiltration.