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