| Pneumonia is a very serious condition that | | | | of 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 list | | | | treated, 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 that | | | | antibiotics available that can reduce the |
| suffer from pneumonia are hospitalized every | | | | risk of death or hemorrhage considerably. |
| year. Although most of the people that suffer | | | | |
| from pneumonia respond very well to treatment | | | | Another complication of pneumonia can be |
| and most of them are cured, the infection | | | | respiratory failure. This is actually the |
| caused by pneumonia is still a serious | | | | main cause of death in patients that suffer |
| problem that can bring a lot of | | | | from pneumococcal pneumonia. When your lungs |
| complications. In some countries, pneumonia | | | | are not able to function properly, the |
| is the first cause of death because of an | | | | quantity 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 several | | | | happen from the changes in your lungs that |
| factors like age, the state of their health | | | | occur when you suffer from pneumonia. Failure |
| or weak immune system. However, even if you | | | | can also occur when you loose the needed |
| do not suffer from a very serious case of | | | | oxygen from your arteries when your pneumonia |
| pneumonia, there is always the risk of | | | | case results in a very abnormal flow of the |
| developing a complication. The most common | | | | blood. |
| 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 dangerous | | | | blood. This is one of the complications that |
| pneumonia complications. These are cavities | | | | mostly 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 with | | | | where this infection actually spreads to |
| pus, these pneumonia complications also have | | | | other locations of your body. Bacteremia is |
| thick walls and they form when the infection | | | | also 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 result | | | | haemophilus influenzae. |