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What are the complications of pneumonia?

Pneumonia is a very serious condition thatof a mixture of organisms that are carried
also has some very severe complications.into your lungs. If these abscesses are not
Pneumonia is on the third place on the listtreated, this can cause hemorrhage and thus
of most frequent causes of hospitalization.can lead to death. However, there are many
More than a million and a half people thatantibiotics available that can reduce the
suffer from pneumonia are hospitalized everyrisk  of  death  or  hemorrhage considerably.
year. Although most of the people that suffer
from pneumonia respond very well to treatmentAnother complication of pneumonia can be
and most of them are cured, the infectionrespiratory failure. This is actually the
caused by pneumonia is still a seriousmain cause of death in patients that suffer
problem that can bring a lot offrom pneumococcal pneumonia. When your lungs
complications. In some countries, pneumoniaare not able to function properly, the
is the first cause of death because of anquantity of oxygen is reduced and you risk to
infection.die. As you can see, this is a very serious
pneumonia complication. Failure to breath can
The severity of pneumonia depends on severalhappen from the changes in your lungs that
factors like age, the state of their healthoccur when you suffer from pneumonia. Failure
or weak immune system. However, even if youcan also occur when you loose the needed
do not suffer from a very serious case ofoxygen from your arteries when your pneumonia
pneumonia, there is always the risk ofcase results in a very abnormal flow of the
developing a complication. The most commonblood.
pneumonia complications are: abscesses,
respiratory  failure  and  bacteremia.The third pneumonia complication is
bacteremia, that means bacteria in your
Abscesses are some of the most dangerousblood. This is one of the complications that
pneumonia complications. These are cavitiesmostly happens in cases of streptococcus
filled with pus that are found in your lungs.pneumonia. However, there are few the cases
Besides the fact that they are filled withwhere this infection actually spreads to
pus, these pneumonia complications also haveother locations of your body. Bacteremia is
thick walls and they form when the infectionalso a very common complication of some other
that you have has destroyed your lung tissue.gram negative microbes, which include
These pneumonia complications are the resulthaemophilus influenzae.



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