Often, when we have symptoms such as cough, chills, fever, we perceive it as a cold and begin to take medications that suppress unpleasant symptoms. For example, a cough syrup, a pill for temperature and under a blanket ... A day passes, another, and the cough becomes only stronger, sputum appears. Breathing becomes harder, shortness of breath appears. The temperature holds ... And by the way, such symptoms can be manifestations of more serious diseases, such as pneumonia.
Pneumonia is pneumonia of an infectious nature. It can be primary (develop as an independent disease) and secondary (resulting from a complication after a disease, such as flu). It can be caused by various pathogens - bacteria. Usually, antibiotics for pneumonia are prescribed as treatment, since they kill bacteria (or prevent their reproduction). Although you can’t self-medicate, you can help your body defeat the disease faster. You need to lie more, rest, get enough sleep and drink more fluid. Although taking the right and correct antibiotics for pneumonia is the main thing in treatment, but additional care for it will be no less important for the body. Do not neglect your health!
Nowadays, there are a huge number of antibiotics for pneumonia (and other drugs that are considered auxiliary). Inflammation of the lungs cannot be treated independently, because this is a very dangerous disease, which often ends in death. Why take the risk? It is very important to prescribe the right antibiotics for pneumonia (in adults and children).
The main symptoms include: cough (mainly with sputum), heavy rapid breathing and palpitations, chest pain (with coughing or deep breathing), fever, weakness, fatigue, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea. Moreover, if in adults the symptoms can manifest themselves in smaller amounts, then in elderly patients, in children, in people with other diseases (with weak immunity), the symptoms are much more pronounced!
Inflammation of the lungs is very easy to “catch” on the street, in the store, at work. Or it begins to develop when bacteria with air enter the weakened lungs of a person, for example, after a flu or a cold. Children under two years of age, adults over 65, people with chronic illnesses or immunocompromised (mentioned above) are most affected by pneumonia. Usually, with proper treatment, the disease recedes (on average) in three weeks.
However, only a doctor can make an accurate diagnosis, directing you to take blood tests, sputum tests and take a chest x-ray. Only after that it will be possible to unambiguously determine whether it is pneumonia or not. If so, it will be clarified what nature it is (and what pathogens it is caused by). Only after that it will be possible to prescribe the necessary antibiotics for pneumonia. Everything that is assigned in a different way - can be harmful! As a rule, this disease is treated with the following drugs: Ceftriaxone, Cefotaxime (group of cephalosporins), Amikacin, Tobramycin (group of aminoglycosides), Azithromycin, Erythromycin (group of macrolides). In any case, the doctor selects the treatment!
An obligatory stage of recovery is recovery from pneumonia, because you need to adapt the body to the usual way of life before the disease. Since the lungs suffer from pneumonia, special attention must be paid to the respiratory system during recovery. Usually prescribed walks that are beneficial for breathing and the whole organism as a whole. Such physical exercise as walking on stairs is very effective, and it is important to gradually increase the load. It is also worth thinking about a special massage. With all the recommendations, recovery will be quick and without complications.