Inflammation of the lungs: how is it manifested?

Signs of pneumonia are manifested when there are abnormalities in the immune system, infected with toxic agents: mycoplasmas, pneumococci, chlamydia. The most common time of onset of pneumonia symptoms falls on autumn-winter, or spring-summer season. Inflammation of the lungs as manifested in people of different ages, diagnosis and complications, we read further.

Primary manifestations in adults

Howis manifested in adults? After introduction into the body of the causative agent and damage to the bronchi, inflammation begins to develop. Transmission can occur by airborne droplets, in contact with the carrier or a sick person. The incubation period lasts 3 days, after it passes into the state of activity, the liquid in the alveoli of the lungs begins to accumulate rapidly.

After prolonged stress, hypothermia, hormonal malfunction( with menopause in women), local body defense weakens and can not cope. Happens, it is difficult to suspect pneumonia, it is necessary to know the symptoms of the disease already at the first stages, in order to take up the treatment in time. The course of the disease is fatal.

Early onset of pneumonia:

• body temperature increase;
• prolonged cough;
• general weakness of the body;
• fever, medications do not work;
• shortness of breath, not enough air.

Manifestations in children

Pneumonia, as manifested in the child? There are some features. Parents need to pay attention or suspect, with such problems in the child as:

1. Problems with breathing. The child may have noticeably rapid breathing. Very often he involuntarily, constantly goes to bed only on one side. The following symptom - when inhaled, in the area of ​​the patient's lung, should be seen drawing the skin into the intercostal spaces, on the other side of such a phenomenon should not be observed. The rhythm of breathing can be disturbed, the frequency and depth of inspiration often changes. Infants have shortness of breath, it is characterized by nodding the head in rhythm with breathing, they can also inflate the cheeks and draw in the lips. From the mouth and nose, there may be a discharge of foam, this is an extreme symptom, in which hospitalization is necessary.
2. Body temperature. Increased body temperature to 38C, last about 3 days, antipyretics do not work, in very young children, it can be 37.5C.At the same time, on the face of a sign of intoxication: increased sweating, lethargy, fatigue, poor appetite. In young children imperfect thermoregulation and the immune system is not fully developed, they may not experience large temperature jerks.
3. Cough. After the beginning of the perspiration in the throat, a slight cough may appear, after coughing becomes dry and painful, intensifying with weeping, feeding. After a while, sputum appears.
4. Observe Behavior. A child with this ailment can become suspiciously moody, sluggish, nervous, sleep disturbances, poor appetite, or refusal to eat at all. Nausea and vomiting appear, infants regurgitate and refuse breast milk.

Important! These signs of inflammation are very important, as soon as you notice one of the above problems in the child, go bravely to the clinic to take the necessary tests.

Asymptomatic inflammation of

How does pneumonia occur without fever? Symptoms, such as temperature, appear with a decrease in the activity of the immune system, the intake of antibiotics in the wrong amounts, becomes the cause.

The course of the disease may not be noticeable at all, without coughing or other manifestations. Only by some factors can the development of the disease be determined:

• pale face;
• breathing with whistling;
• increased heart rate even with mild activity;
• general weakness.

Sweating may also increase, thirst will increase, pain may be felt during the turn of the trunk. If these manifestations are detected, accurate diagnosis is needed, pneumonia without temperature is an insidious and very dangerous disease.

Diagnosis methods

Diagnostics is based on external examination, delivery of analyzes and clinically instrumental approaches.

Diagnostic methods through the laboratory:

• detection of harmful bacteria in smears, sowing of the culture of infection on the feeding medium;
• biochemistry indicators: increased liver function, increased amount of c-reactive protein;
• detection in the blood of carbon dioxide;
• increased number of neutrophils and leukocytes in the blood;
• diagnosis of mycoplasma, legionellosis, chlamydia;
• microbiological examination;
• methods of bronchoscopy - used to detect atypical bacteria, with their help you can identify people with immune deficiency.

Diagnosis of pathologies by X-ray:

• MRI and CT;
• chest X-ray in different projections;
• ultrasound of the pleural cavity, if there is a suspicion of inflammation of the pleura with fluid accumulation.

Manifestations of the disease in pictures

How does pneumonia appear on X-rays? With this disease, X-ray is a method of detection, and at the same time a controller of its development during subsequent treatment. Inflammatory changes are divided into several forms, the roentgenogram of which is different.

X-ray in this disease shows black spots( popular opinion).In scientific terms, this is a "blackout".In the image it is expressed in white, because the X-ray diffraction pattern itself is negative.

What are the spots in inflammation:

• shallow, medium and large-focal;
• are subtotal and total;
• focal and common.

It is these designations that help to describe the visible spots on a picture of a patient with pneumonia. Decoding also consists of a description of the shadows, they are of different intensity. The more the shadow is intense, the less the airiness of the pulmonary epithelium. With inflammation, the dark areas have a non-uniform shape and blurred outlines.

Complications

The disease in a large number of cases is perfectly cured. But for quality treatment you need to follow all the rules set by the doctor, only in this case you will be able to fully recover.

Very often, patients choose to stop taking medication as soon as the symptoms of the disease pass. The disease, not cured to the end, will strike with renewed force, the form will be more acute, and capable of causing the following complications:

• lung fibrosis;
• chronic bronchitis;
• abscess, gangrene;
• bronchial asthma;
• Pancreatic secretion disorders.

People with acute inflammation of the chronic form of the disease need hospitalization. In any form of the disease, the nature of the course is not important, antibacterial agents are used. Modern strains of bacteria are too resistant to antibiotics of the penicillin series.

Patients diagnosed with pneumonia should be aware of the dangers of self-treatment, which will result in very tragic consequences. At the first signs of the disease, go through the diagnosis in the clinic and follow all the instructions of specialists.