If any symptoms of pneumonia call the doctor, and under what - ambulance

Pneumonia exhausting cough, pain and fever and can result in respiratory failure, sepsis and even death. In Russia alone it suffer up to 1.5 million people each year. What to do with the inflammation of the lungs and how to protect themselves from it, found Layfhaker.

What is pneumonia

Pneumonia - an inflammatory disease of the lungs. Light consist of alveoli - small air chambers which are filled with air during inhalation and from which oxygen enters the blood. Through them, the blood gets rid of carbon dioxide. When pneumonia alveolus filled with fluid or pus, and the patient can not breathe fully.

Where does it come from

Pneumonia caused by bacteria, viruses or substances into the lungs.

Most often it appears as bacterial pneumonia, a complication of diseases such as the flu, when the weakened body can not fight infections.

Pneumonia is more common in people whose immune system is lowered or insufficiently formed: children and the elderly, people with immune deficiencies and chronic diseases.

Symptoms of pneumonia, for which it is necessary to call a doctor

According to certain signs of pneumonia can be distinguished from colds and realize that everything seriously SARS:

1. Increased cough or reappeared when almost gone.
2. Difficulty breathing, so breathing becomes more frequent.
3. When breathing or deep inspiration there is pain in the chest.
4. When coughing allocated sputum yellow, green or light-brown.
5. Body temperature rises above 38 ° C and poorly reduced.
6. Skin pales greatly.

Manifest may not all symptoms. Enough of three to suspected pneumonia. In this case, it is necessary to call a doctor.

Symptoms of pneumonia, for which it is necessary to call an ambulance

If the pneumonia is severe, you need to recover under the supervision of doctors, that is in the hospital. Can assess the severity of the following symptoms:

1. The patient confusion: it is slow to respond to questions, responds sluggishly to the environment, it is not oriented in space.
2. The patient breathes: makes more than 30 breaths per minute.
3. "Upper" pressure declined to 90 mm Hg. Art.
4. "Lower" pressure less than 60 mmHg. Art.

If there are at least two features, you need to call an ambulance.

Pneumonia also considered severe if the patient has at least one adverse factor from the list:

1. Age older than 60 years.
2. Chronic lung disease.
3. Diabetes, Renal failure, circulatory failure.
4. Alcoholism.
5. Depletion.
6. Diseases that affect the brain.

How to treat pneumonia

First of all pneumonia is treated with antibiotics and anti-inflammatory drugs that are prescribed by a doctor.

It is important to follow the instructions and drink products as long as scheduled, instead of throwing them at the first sign of improvement. Full course is needed to finally eradicate the infection.

The doctor also prescribe expectorants to help bring phlegm.

Secondly pneumonia treated with bed rest. That is, the patient should lie down, drink plenty of warm liquids (tea or compote).

Due pneumonia respiratory system can not cope with the work they do not clean the air not heated, and it can not protect the body from microbes that have been put on the mucosa. Therefore, in the room of the patient should not be a vacuum: carpets, heavy curtains, soft toys, open bookshelves.

Be sure to keep an eye on the air that breathing of the patient.

Every day you need to wash the floor (water without household chemicals) and dusting. Ideally - to buy or make humidifier and monitor the level of humidity: it should be between 40-60%. Several times a day to ventilate the room: it is one of the ways to disinfect the air.

The room should not be too hot to hot air even longer irritates the respiratory tract.

When the patient gets better, you can do breathing exercises, go for a massage and physiotherapy treatments.

How not to get sick with pneumonia

Worse than the air we breathe, the higher the risk to earn pneumonia. If you live in an industrial area, close to the apartment, if you or someone from the family smokes, you need to care more about prevention.

Pneumonia is clinging to the weakening of the body, so it is important to lead a healthy lifestyle and do not run the disease.

Usually pneumonia - a complication of another disease, so you always need to be treated to the end and do not carry on their feet ailment and SARS.

Do not create conditions for the development of pneumonia and does not destroy the symptoms of colds, to endure and to work:

1. If you have a fever, drink a loading dose of an antipyretic (at least until the temperature rises above 38.5 ° C), and stay at home and rest.
2. If you cough, do not take everything antitussives. Cough - a protective reaction of the organism, with the help of output sputum. And if you decide to drown this reflex, the risk to leave the site of infection in the body.
3. If you have a stuffy nose and sore throat, do not suffer in the public transport, stuffy office, and generally less frequented areas with a large number of people. When the disease of the respiratory tract mucosa is irritated and unable to cope with security features. Therefore, in any of these locations increases the risk of infection to catch the excess.

If you think that SARS is not worth that kind of attention, remember that after the pneumonia, the body is restored in about six months.