What are the symptoms of pneumonia in the elderly?

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The old people suffering from pneumonia are often encountered in our life. In ordinary days, we must take care of and maintain our own bodies. Many children are often worried because of the old people suffering from pneumonia. Once again, we remind you that the physiological characteristics of infants and young children should be paid special attention to in the care of the old people with pneumonia. Some drugs that may aggravate the old people's pneumonia should be strictly controlled. There are many causes of pneumonia in the elderly, so we should distinguish it from adult pneumonia in treatment, and we should not abuse drugs. Now I'd like to introduce the symptoms of pneumonia in the elderly?.

What are the symptoms of pneumonia in the elderly?

First: the symptoms of pneumonia in the early stage only stimulate the dry cough, early is unable to control the cough. Then he coughs up white mucus sputum or bloody sputum. After a short period of development, he coughs up mucus bloody sputum or rust colored sputum, or purulent sputum.

Second: there are more severe side chest pain, often needle like, with cough or deep breathing and aggravation, is a typical representative of pneumonia symptoms. 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. And this is exactly the typical symptom of pneumonia.

Third: the symptoms of pneumonia are the onset of chills, followed by high fever. The body temperature is as high as 39 degrees or above, showing the type of persistent fever, often accompanied by headache, muscle soreness and reduced food intake. After the use of antibiotics, the situation will decline, the elderly and the weak can only have low fever or no fever.

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Here I would like to give you warm tips: elderly cough with phlegm, if there is pus sputum, we must be careful. When the trachea, bronchus and lung are stimulated by harmful factors or infected by pathogenic bacteria, the glands in the mucosa and submucosa will secrete a lot of mucus. Mucus, bacteria and their toxins, together with some degenerative and necrotic tissue cells, form phlegm. The thicker the sputum, the more serious the respiratory tract infection. If the sputum is not eliminated in time, the bacteria can cause further infection.