Symptoms of adult pneumonia

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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. Symptoms of adult pneumonia, I'll tell you about it.

Symptoms of adult pneumonia

The first is chest pain, pneumonia often with severe side 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.

Then there is the problem of shivering and high fever. Sometimes it starts with a sudden shiver, and then it slowly becomes high fever. 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.

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.