What are the types of interstitial lung disease?

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What are the common classifications of interstitial pneumonia? Interstitial pneumonia is a common lung disease. In fact, it is just a general term for a kind of lung disease. Interstitial pneumonia can be divided into many types. I hope you can have a deep understanding, so as to distinguish the disease in time and carry out the correct treatment. So, what are the common classifications of interstitial pneumonia? Now let's talk about it.

What are the types of interstitial lung disease?

Viral pneumonia: many pathogens, influenza virus, parainfluenza virus, adenovirus, respiratory syncytial virus, measles virus can cause pneumonia. Viral pneumonia is more common in infants, often caused by the downward extension of upper respiratory tract virus infection.

Fungal pneumonia: according to the mode of onset, it is often divided into primary inhalation infection and conditional disease. The former is like pulmonary histoplasmosis, the latter is like pulmonary candidiasis. The so-called conditional pathogenicity refers to the disease caused by microorganisms that are usually not pathogenic under the condition of low body resistance.

Bacterial pneumonia: Streptococcus pneumoniae is the most common, hemolytic streptococcus and other bacteria caused pneumonia is less. There is an increasing trend of pneumonia caused by gluttonous resistant strains, including Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, influenza bacilli and Enterobacteriaceae. There are also two types of microorganisms with body shape close to the virus, mycoplasma and chlamydia, which can also cause lung infection. They are small and can pass through the filter, the plastids have no cell wall, and chlamydia can only grow in cells, which are similar to viruses. But they have both RNA and DNA, and they reproduce in a biphasic manner, which is the same as bacteria. They are currently listed as bacteria. Most of the pneumonia caused by plastid bodies is known as "atypical pneumonia" in the past, and the incidence rate is not low. Chlamydia psittaci can occasionally be transmitted from birds to humans, causing lung inflammation.

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For patients, it is very important to understand these classifications. Only after knowing their own disease types can we carry out targeted treatment, which can not only reduce the damage caused by the disease, but also cure the disease as soon as possible.