What are the causes of chronic pneumonia?

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The course of disease is more than 3 months. In recent years, the mortality of acute pneumonia in children is decreasing, but sometimes severe pneumonia in children did not completely recover, recurrence and evolution of chronic pneumonia is not uncommon. Therefore, timely prevention and treatment of chronic pneumonia is very important. What are the causes of chronic pneumonia? Next, I'd like to share my views with you.

What are the causes of chronic pneumonia?

Under normal circumstances, due to the defense mechanism of human respiratory tract, the entry of pathogens into the body does not necessarily cause the disease. Some factors can make its defense function decline, and pathogens take advantage of the deficiency to cause the disease.

Upper respiratory tract virus infection: virus infection can destroy the integrity of bronchial mucosa, affect mucus cilia activity, thus leading to bacterial infection. Some basic diseases, such as immunodeficiency, diabetes, renal failure, are also susceptible factors.

Sudden suffering, starvation, fatigue and drunkenness weaken the body's resistance, reduce the phagocytosis of cells, weaken the immune function, and lead to the onset of the disease. Coma, anesthesia, sedative overdose, prone to foreign body inhalation, causing bacterial infection.

matters needing attention

Measles, cough, influenza and adenovirus infection should be prevented in infants. The diffuse sinusitis and recurrent bronchitis should also be actively prevented. Immunotherapy can be used in children with immune deficiency. According to the specific situation, human blood gamma globulin, transfer factor, thymosin or traditional Chinese medicine can be used for treatment. If necessary, bone marrow transplantation can be used to reconstruct the immune function and prevent the occurrence of repeated infection and chronic pneumonia.