Inflammation of the lungs is a fairly common disease that affects the lung tissue, and sometimes the entire respiratory system, but the lungs are the most vulnerable organs of the entire respiratory system. Especially often, inflammatory processes of the lungs develop when infected by the airborne droplet, which is facilitated by a weakened immunity, due to hypothermia or poor nutrition. Particularly vulnerable are people who drink alcohol and smoke, all this contributes to the fact that microbes move to the nasopharynx, then the larynx and trachea, begin to descend down the bronchi, but the process of inflammation does not end with the defeat of the bronchi, but passes to the lung tissue and affects it causing inflammation of one or two lungs, this phenomenon is called pneumonia. The most common causative pneumonia is the pneumococcus microbe, but there may be others: streptococci, staphylococci and pneumococci. Usually, pneumonia occurs after acute respiratory infections, which sometimes have almost the same symptoms (fever, cough and runny nose). But after a few days, the temperature rises sharply to 40.5 degrees, there is severe chills, a person begins to have shortness of breath, a dry cough, and then sputum begins, it is initially rusty (due to an impurity of blood), then it can be yellow-green, or grayish shade.
With a little physical exertion, breathing becomes more frequent in a person, weakness appears throughout the body and chest pains may appear , which can intensify with coughing or deep breathing. With pneumonia, the pain sometimes radiates to the abdomen or in a person it may simply hurt the abdomen (more often in children), and sometimes one cheek turns red and usually from the side where the pain spreads. Such phenomena occur with the so-called croupous pneumonia, where most of the lungs are affected by inflammation, however, the process can proceed only with a small temperature and cough, but weakness and malaise are always present. When pneumonia begins, treatment is carried out in a hospital due to the fact that the patient needs to do blood, sputum, urine tests, as well as an X-ray examination. Treatment of pneumonia is aimed at eliminating the focus of inflammation, antibiotics are used for this (it is best to choose a drug after the antibioticogram). Also prescribed drugs that can stop the cough and normalize the temperature. In order to eliminate pneumonia, the treatment is carried out under the guidance of a therapist and pulmonologist. Treatment begins with eliminating the cough, and at the same time, drugs such as mucodine and mucopront are used, and acetylcysteine, mucobene and mucoltin can also be used. In diseases such as pneumonia, treatment is carried out with the help of antibiotics, which is controlled by doctors and when a person has concomitant diseases, such as diabetes mellitus, kidney and heart disease, they are given third-generation antibiotics from the cephalosporin and aminopenicillin series . This is due to the fact that in such patients the disease is particularly severe, and there may be complications, therefore, all procedures for such patients are carried out only in the hospital. When a patient has pneumonia, treatment is carried out in a hospital. In the case when the treatment begins on time and it is not yet in a neglected form, a person can recover in fifteen to twenty days, but only if the treatment is correct with pneumonia. Recovery will go faster when the patient eats well, sleeps, and walks a lot in the fresh air and follows the rules of hygiene so that the room is always ventilated and wet cleaning is regularly carried out in it. Also, a person should quit smoking and drinking alcohol, and should exercise, temper, and alternate time for work and rest.