Understanding Pneumonia, Care & Treatment

Pneumonia is a respiratory infection respirator wherein the causes, symptoms, signs of illness are complex and require care and treatment should be consistent and need the handling and treatment by medical experts to be the end result of pneumonia can be managed optimally.

Pneumonia is an inflammation or infection of the lungs or acute parking can be said with the acute situation in the lung caused by infection or irritation of the chemicals that filled alveoli inflammatory exudate. Exudate is inflammatory extravascular fluid.

What causes pneumonia?

A major cause of pneumonia, among others:

• Bacteria or parasites that may be a fungus or virus.
• Physical materials or chemicals that can be objects of solids, gasses or liquids
• A continuation of mobile or smallpox disease and also because of the continuation of influenza
• The cause of the supporting factors or other predisposing factors such as malnutrition or malnourished, Common Cold , other serious illnesses, aspiration or choking.

Types and kinds of pneumonia

Various kinds of pneumonia, among others, are as follows:

• Bacterial pneumonia is pneumonia that is characterized by the presence of pus or intra-alveolar exudate suppurative. This type of bacteria that cause pneumonia are the type of pneumococci, streptococci (the most common cause approximately 90% of cases), staple cocci.
• Lobar pneumonia is suppurative pneumonia or inflammation of the entire lobe.
• Lobular pneumonia is pneumonia with his trademark is the spread of infection with a stained area with a diameter of 3-4 cm and the area surrounding the bronchus.
• Pneumonia virus is known as micro-plasma. Characteristic of this type of pneumonia is an inflammation or infection of inflammatory infiltrates interstitial accompanied by accumulation in the walls of the alveoli despite alveoli nyah cavity itself free of exudate.
• Aspiration pneumonia is pneumonia caused by aspiration of gastric contents.
• Hypostatic pneumonia. These types of pneumonia often arise on the basis of the lungs caused by breathing shallow and constantly being in the same position.

Symptoms and signs of pneumonia

The symptoms and signs of pneumonia are as follows:

• Body feels bad and lazy
• The advance was preceded by an infection or inflammation of the upper respiratory tract.
• The body temperature rises to 30-40 degrees Celsius.
• Sometimes people feel chills.
• Patients often experience shortness of breath (stridor-breathing sounds
• Coughing and mucus
• Arising blown so badly that cyanosis (lack of oxygen conditions characterized by pale face and part termites end.

On the other investigations in patients with pneumonia will show the following results:

Laboratory tests of blood (hematology blood):

• There was an increase of leukocytes. It is caused due to inflammation and leucocytes or white blood cells multiply or increases to attack incoming germs.
• Hemoglobin or decreased blood hemoglobin. This is because oxygen is reduced so that the bond of oxygen in the blood also decreased.
• Erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR).

On examination of sputum / phlegm / sputum:'ll germs or bacteria that cause pneumonia.

Other investigations to ensure diagnosis pneumonia is by radiological examinations.

Care and treatment of patients with pneumonia

If you or your family suffer from pneumonia then do actions following pneumonia treatment. Pneumonia care action is intended to support measures of treatment or medical therapy performed by a doctor. The actions of care you can do to support the treatment of pneumonia, among others, are as follows:

• Perform or apply adequate rest.
• Reduce blown by way bed rest or sleep half sitting position.
• Lower fever or body temperature by means of a cold compress / ice, or you can also do by drinking anti-heat.
• Try to drink lots of you or the patient avoid dehydration or lack of fluids.
• If coughing and excessive mucus, then reduce a cough and mucus by coughing taking antihypertensive medication prescribed by the doctor.
• Diet eating and drinking adequate
• Make prevention of increased severity of infection by drinking anti-infective drugs from doctors

treatment of pneumonia

Medical treatment of pneumonia through the prescription of drugs by doctors in general are antibiotics to kill the bacteria, antipyretic to reduce the heat, drug antitussive to reduce cough, drug expectorant to thin the mucus or phlegm, drug bronchodilator to ease breathing, medication antalgic to reduce pain, as well as other drugs that are roborant or according to the symptoms and signs that arise.