Refractory pneumonia symptoms?

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In our impression, patients with pneumonia (especially community-acquired pneumonia) should have fever, cough, expectoration, elevated WBC / N, obvious changes in chest X-ray, etc. the diagnosis is easy, but in the last article, we introduced that the diagnosis of pneumonia has exclusion criteria, so we can no longer take the diagnosis of pneumonia lightly. Refractory pneumonia symptoms? Let's talk about it

Refractory pneumonia symptoms?

In typical cases, the onset is sudden chills, followed by high fever. The body temperature can be as high as 39 ℃ ~ 40 ℃. It is characterized by persistent fever, often accompanied by headache, muscle soreness, and reduced food intake. After the use of antibiotics, the fever type may not be typical, and the elderly and the weak may only have low fever or no fever.

The initial stage is irritative dry cough, followed by white mucus sputum or bloody sputum. After 1-2 days, mucus bloody sputum or rust colored sputum can be coughed up, and purulent sputum can also be coughed up. In the dissipative stage, the amount of sputum increases, and the sputum is yellow and thin.

More severe side chest pain, often needle like, with cough or deep breathing and aggravation, can radiate to the shoulder or abdomen. If it is lower lobe pneumonia, it can stimulate septal pleura and cause severe abdominal pain, which is easy to be misdiagnosed as acute abdomen.

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Through the description of this article, I believe that we have a clear understanding of the physical characteristics of people suffering from pneumonia. In daily life, once you find yourself with similar symptoms, you should seek medical treatment as soon as possible.