| Parasites and bacteria can cause many types of | | | | worse. Then pain in the chest starts to be felt, |
| infections in the body. If this infection is located in | | | | and when the illness advances the patients start |
| the lungs, then the disease is called pneumonia, | | | | to cough blood, loose appetite, vomit, and their |
| and if it's left untreated, it can become pretty | | | | skin gets a blue color. These symptoms are not |
| serious. | | | | the same in all patients, they may vary from one |
| When bacteria and viruses enter the lungs, they | | | | person to another, and they also depend on what |
| cause an inflammation first. This is not a serious | | | | caused the pneumonia. |
| problem, but if the person infected happens to | | | | If you experience any of the symptoms |
| have a weak defense system then this simple | | | | mentioned above then you should immediately |
| infection triggers pneumonia, which is an illnes that | | | | visit a doctor. If the symptoms indicate |
| must not be ignored. | | | | pneumonia then the doctor also makes an x-ray |
| In the early 1900's pneumonia was the disease | | | | on the patient and sometimes some blood tests. |
| with the biggest number of victims in the United | | | | If the diagnose is pneumonia, then the antibiotic |
| States, but then antibiotics were discovered and | | | | treatment starts. |
| most of the problem was solved. | | | | The treatment is easy, and in most cases it can |
| There are two main types of pneumonia: lobar | | | | be done at home, but if the disease advanced too |
| pneumonia and bronchial pneumonia. Lobar | | | | much before the diagnose then the patient has to |
| pneumonia only affects one lung, and bronchial | | | | stay in the hospital for a while. The doctor first |
| pneumonia affects them both. Fortunately, since | | | | performs a test to determine whether you are |
| the discovery of antibiotics, what once used to be | | | | allergic to certain antibiotics or not, and then based |
| a severe, death-causing illness, now can be | | | | on the results of this test the best antibiotics are |
| treated at home. If you follow the treatment and | | | | administered. |
| take your medication the disease will be cured in | | | | You may get the pneumonia virus or bacteria |
| one or two weeks, depending on the patient. | | | | from school or work, so preventing it is not too |
| The first pneumonia symptom is coughing and | | | | easy. But fortunately this illness is not what it |
| fever. A few days after later, a greenish liquid is | | | | used to be and it can now be easily cured. |
| eliminated when you cough, and the fever gets | | | | |