| Every year there are people that die of | | | | with the progression of the disease you may |
| pneumonia, especially older people, those | | | | experience breathless and a cough that |
| with chronic illnesses or impaired immune | | | | produces a whitish phlegm. |
| systems, but also affects young and healthy | | | | |
| people. There are many types of pneumonia | | | | Mycoplasma Pneumonia |
| with various signs and symptoms that usually | | | | |
| appear after a flu or a complicated cold. | | | | Mycoplasma is a tiny bacterium that causes |
| Pneumonia occurs suddenly with chest pain, | | | | symptoms similar to those caused by other |
| chills, fever, cough and shortness of breath. | | | | bacterial and viral infections but more mild |
| Antibiotics are used to treat the most common | | | | and flu like symptoms. A "walking |
| forms of bacterial pneumonias, | | | | pneumonia," is caused by mycoplasma, you may |
| antibiotic-resistant pneumonias are a growing | | | | not even know you had pneumonia. Mycoplasma |
| problem. | | | | pneumonia spreads easily and affects |
| | | | children, young adults in community. Gives |
| Signs and symptoms | | | | good results if treated with the appropiate |
| | | | antibiotics. |
| It is not easy to have a cristal clear | | | | |
| diagnosis of pneumonia, because often is | | | | Chlamydia |
| mistaken with colds and flus. | | | | |
| | | | Chlamydia pneumonia is common among |
| Bacterial pneumonia | | | | school-age children and causes similar |
| | | | symptoms with those of mycoplasma pneumonia. |
| There are many bacteria that cause pneumonia | | | | Has a good response in antibiotic therapy, |
| and you may develop it if you had a viral | | | | the chlamydia bacterium that causes pneumonia |
| upper respiratory infection such as | | | | is different from the one that causes |
| influenza, in older people and people with a | | | | sexually transmitted infections. Pneumonia |
| chronic illness or compromised immune system | | | | may be caused by some types of fungi which |
| the symtoms are not that severe and evident | | | | spread through bird droppings, with symptoms |
| as in young people which have shaking chills, | | | | of acute pneumonia and chronic pneumonia. |
| sweating, a high fever, chest pain and cough | | | | Pneumocystis carinii causes infection and |
| that produces thick, greenish or yellow | | | | pneumonia in people with AIDS. It also |
| phlegm. | | | | affects people with organ transplants, |
| | | | chemotherapy, on corticosteroids or other |
| Viral pneumonia | | | | immune-suppressing drugs. Signs and symptoms |
| | | | include a cough that doesn't go away, trouble |
| Viral pneumonia is more often during winter | | | | breathing and fever. Some tests need to be |
| time and is caused by a a dozen different | | | | done: laboratory test results, X-ray |
| viruses. Its first symptoms are: muscle pain | | | | findings, demographics. Home care is possible |
| and fatigue, headache, fever, a dry cough all | | | | even in severe cases if the caregivers give |
| those symptoms are more severe in people with | | | | the chest therapy and antibiotics intravenous |
| cardiovascular or lung disease. When having a | | | | and if good support and home nursing services |
| viral pneumonia you are susceptible of | | | | are assured. |
| developing a secondary bacterial pneumonia, | | | | |