Walking pneumonia: what is it and how to treat it

Walking pneumonia - it sounds scary, almost like the walking dead. In fact, it's not so scary. So called inflammation of the lungs, in which the patient feels well enough to be in the hospital, and to transfer the disease on their feet.

Walking pneumonia - not a medical term, and light household name form of the disease. This is a translation from English walking pneumonia. In Russia, this phrase is rarely used.

Nearest medical term - Community acquired pneumonia. Community-acquired - this is such a person is infected in everyday life outside the hospital. In Russia every year so ill with pneumonia from 3.9 to 44% of adultsMusalimova, G. G., Minesweeper, V. N., Nikonorova, T. BUT.Diagnosis and treatment of mycoplasma and chlamydial pneumonia. .

What is pneumonia

Pneumonia - an infectious disease that affects the lungs, and their main part, consisting of the alveoli. Alveoli - tiny bubbles where gas exchange occurs. This differs from bronchitis pneumonia - inflammation of the tubes that carry air from the environment enters the lungs.

Pneumonia - a serious disease that can be life-threatening, especially if the body is weakened by other diseases. In children, the elderly and patients with chronic diseases of the respiratory system is more severe pneumonia.

Community-acquired pneumonia is much easier to hospital, so sometimes occurs without obvious symptoms. Nosocomial - is such that the patient was infected when he was in the hospital. As a rule, the microbes that live in the hospital, much stronger than the average. They are accustomed to the eerie detergents and drugs, so have become resistant to antibiotics and are not amenable to treatment.

Where does it come from

Infection occurs by the action of microorganisms - viruses, bacteria, protozoa or fungi. Community-acquired pneumonia usually strep or staph. A pass in the lungs forms of pneumonia caused by Mycoplasma and Chlamydia.

Infected by other people in a closed room with a large number of visitors. Therefore, in the area of ​​risk pupils, students and all those who work in large offices where Ventilate the room.

Often pneumonia - a complication of other infections, the same cold or flu.

How dangerous walking pneumonia

Pneumonia is not always runs hard. If you have a strong and healthy body, the virus or bacteria that attacked your lungs, will not cause any harm. The maximum that you can feel - cough, and malaise, mild fever and chillsNovikov, Yu TO.atypical pneumonia. . Little different from the usual seasonal cold, right?

But the pneumonia and dangerous that can suddenly turn into a serious condition. Therefore, you should always consult your doctor if your illness is delayed: you cough more than a week, you do not see improvements within a few days in a row, or after a small improvement you become worse.

What to do if you get sick

There is no specific way to protect against pneumonia, in addition to general advice: do not go to large gatherings of people to wash their hands often, to lead a healthy lifestyle, to be vaccinated against influenza. By the way, against some bacteria that cause pneumonia, there are vaccines.

If the disease you are still caught, then do not look at what she walking. Stay at home and treated.

The main means of struggle with pneumonia - is antibiotics. Since the beginning of the disease tests will not be ready, no one can say exactly what organism caused inflammation. Therefore, the doctor will prescribe these antibiotics that will be effective in most cases. It is necessary to strictly follow the recommendations and take pills for as long as the doctor said. Typically, after a few days receiving antibiotics it becomes a lot easier, so patients drop out of treatment. But to do so in any case impossible. Each antibiotic its validity, and if the doctor prescribed a course of 10 days, you need to take pills all the time, even if the symptoms have gone. Otherwise, your lungs will remain the toughest germs.

The remaining recommendations are the same as in the treatment of flu:

• You need to drink more fluids to the lungs phlegm does not stagnate.
• It is necessary to ventilate the room, only to breathe fresh air.
• You need every day, wet cleaning, to microbes did not accumulate in the dust.
• I need more sleep and eat properly, so that the body had the strength to fight the disease.