Pneumonia bacterial infections
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It is best to stay away from the eldery or those with compromised immune systems while experiencing active bacterial pneumonia. The use of prednisone with these infections is controversial. I know many physicians prescribe a steroid to take with lung infections. My personal opinion is that the degradation of the immune response by the prednisone always outweighs the benefits.
It seems that you started with a viral infection. Bacterial infections often piggyback on viral infections.
Azithromycin 250 is appropriate, although it should have been for seven to ten days. You should take this medication with grapefruit juice, which will improve it's effectiveness.
Absolutely positively no alcohol.
It is pointless to look at "pictures' of bacteria. You have bacterial pneumonia.
Get 45 minutes of sunlight every day.
no, severe lung infections such as pneumonia or acute (bacterial) bronchitis can take many weeks to heal up from. Just watch out for relapses in symptoms of infections, such as fever and increasing shortness of breath.
A holistic doctor from France I met at a conference told me that he had treated successfully thousands of patients suffering from ANY upper respiratory tract infections, from pneumonia to bronchitis, from flu to laryngitis, using the following remedy:
One ounce of Magnesium Chloride flakes (Pharmaceutical grade) per one liter of spring water, sipped very slowly throughout the entire day.
Repeat for 3-4 days.
Your symptoms strongly suggest that you have an undiagnosed infection(s) that underly your condition. Since you previously had pneumonia and sinus infections, I would start with some of the stealth infections that are responsible for most atypical pneumonia but can become systemic (causing system-wide infections) later on and result in the types of symptoms that you have listed. Examples would be M. pneumoniae, C. pneumoniae and similar infections.
These complications can include dehydration, ear or sinus infections, and bacterial or viral pneumonia, which can fill the air sacs in the lungs with pus or fluid, making it difficult to breathe and depriving older patients of adequate oxygen. In some cases, pneumonia may be asymptomatic, but it is still contagious if it results from a bacterial or viral infection.
You can also get bacterial pneumonia as a secondary infection. Bacterial pneumonia is usually caused by a bacteria called Streptococcus pneumoniae. It is a bacteria that can be in the throat or respiratory tract in small numbers and it can be normal bacteria until someone gets run down due to a viral infection, fungal infection or other reasons. Then the Streptococcus bacteria can take over the lungs and cause a bad infection. It is treatable with antibiotics.
t know his outcome due to the fact he has seemed to vanish. so I guess my question would have to be what types of infections would cause pneumonia bacterial and viral or are there certain fungal infections that can cause this.
Much like a whooping cough or pleuritis (inflammation of the space surrounding the lungs), there will be episodes of gasping fits, even when things are getting better.
fungal infections can be misdiagnosed as bacterial pneumonia, it has happened to me, but if the xrays are looking better then this likely is a bacterial infection. Ask your veterinarian if a bronchodilator will help and express with them your concerns, I am sure they will be happy to listen and work with you to help your dog.
Is this a serious question? Bacterial infections occur equally in men just as in women. There are numerous causes of infections.
You can get bacterial infections just about anywhere - some are transmitted by water particles in air (someone coughing or sneezing on you), by touching something that has bacteria on it and then touching your mouth or nose, or kissing someone. The ways that bacterial infections can be transmitted are endless.
Don't kiss anyone until you have taken the antibiotics for a few days and your lymph nodes are no longer swollen.
) are lung cancer--they can be bacterial (toxo, coxxy), scars from upper respiratory infections--bronchitis, pneumonia, etc. In fact, a scar can morph, in a small percentage of people, into what's called a scar carcinoma.
Lung Cancer Alliance is a great resource for answering such questions, by the way.
What happens with the flu is that people can get what are called secondary infections. That includes anything like bronchitis or pneumonia. The secondary infections are actually the things that make flu dangerous for children and the elderly. So, you nay have needed antibiotics after the flu. Hope you are all better now!
It sounds like you sister is getting the best care possible. She is on the ventilator to help her body heal itself. Off the ventilator, her body would expend too much energy just trying to breath to get the extra oxygen in. This is a bacterial infection? Then hopefully the antibiotics will kick in to kill the infection. At that point, she will start her healing process. It will be a slow one.
It is a VERY serious bacterial infection and leading cause of bacterial meningitis. It can also cause bloodstream infections, but that is not as common. College students staying in dorms are very suseptible to this disease.
That being said, mother nature deals with bacterial infections by encapsulation, often with a biofilm. This prevents the organism from being destroyed by antibiotics.
Once bacterial infections become established in the lung surgical removal is the only option. If they become too widespread, this option becomes impractical.
Keeping up the immune system to keep the little critters in their beds is the only way to deal with such a situation. It is not always possible.
I might have worded that funny about "asthma can lead to pneumonia but not the other way around". Pneumonia can also antagonize asthma if the person already has asthma,but pneumonia doesn't actually cause asthma.
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