With the onset of autumn and winter, the number of people sick from colds and pneumonia immediately increases. This is because many, having become ill with a cold, start it, and then it goes through with complications and smoothly flows into more complex and dangerous diseases.
If suddenly, in your opinion, you have signs of pneumonia, then you should immediately consult a doctor for qualified medical help.
Why do I need to see a doctor? This is because often the symptoms of pneumonia in adults are almost not manifested, and that is why patients do not know that they suffer from pneumonia. If it proceeds in a latent form, then in this case you cannot determine any symptoms yourself. To be more precise, there are symptoms, but most of them simply do not notice.
The most important symptom can be called a deterioration in well-being, fatigue and drowsiness. Many do not pay attention to this. And it happens that the body, and therefore the immunity, are strong enough, and as a result, the disease proceeds slowly. Signs of pneumonia become visible only in the last stages, when the treatment is very complex and problematic. Often in such cases, patients die. Therefore, if you feel somehow not well, especially if you have recently had a cold, then it is better to go to the clinic. There will be no harm from this, on the contrary, only benefit.
The main symptoms of pneumonia are:
• Frequent spontaneous increase in temperature to 37-37.9 degrees Celsius;
• An increase in temperature occurs mainly only in the evening, and not in the morning or afternoon;
• By morning, the temperature drops sharply;
• An increase in temperature lasts more than 7 days;
• shortness of breath;
• Fast fatiguability;
• Heaviness in the chest;
• Frequent bouts of lack of air;
• thirst;
• Increased sweating;
• And other abnormal conditions.
But many symptoms can be evidence not only of pneumonia. Let's look at some signs that may be symptoms of other diseases and can confuse you and let you go on a false trail.
In case of constant elevated temperatures, you should immediately consult a doctor, since there is every chance that you have pneumonia or something else. What else can cause the appearance of high temperature:
• leukemia;
• various malignant tumors;
• diabetes;
• and many other diseases.
Lack of air, shortness of breath and heaviness in the chest indicate that the patient may have lobar or lobar pneumonia. But even shortness of breath and fatigue are not necessarily signs of pneumonia. If this is not pneumonia, then this indicates that the patient has functional impairment. But, as previously mentioned, this symptom may also be the cause of other diseases. For example:
• Cardiovascular diseases;
• Obesity;
• Emphysema;
• Bronchial asthma;
• and much more.
With increased fatigue, with difficulty climbing stairs, with breathing problems with a quick step, you should consult your doctor.
Consider the option of symptoms of thirst and sweating, and, of course, fatigue. These signs indicate that there is some kind of latent inflammatory process in the body. In other words, your body and immunity are struggling with something. This is also evidence that your body is intoxicated with decay products of various pathogens and bacteria. In addition to this, these symptoms are suitable for type 2 diabetes.
Allegedly, signs of pneumonia can also be signs of another disease. That is why you need to seek qualified help so that you are given an accurate diagnosis. And most importantly, timely diagnosis and then timely treatment.