Pneumonia

Pneumonia is often referred to pneumonia, including types of malignancies. Strengthen your body with balanced nutrition and protecting the environment is the best step avoid.

When a child or adult lying on the bare floor, often appeared cry, "Eh, do not lie so, then got pneumonia, you know!" The reprimand was obeyed, then moved to the sofa or bed.

Many people think of, moisture from the ground or the air we breathe can cause pneumonia. Really? What exactly is pneumonia?

30 Source of Infection

In medicine, a term unknown pneumonia. That there is pneumonia, which is an infection that causes inflamed lungs. Air sacs in the lungs (alveoli) are filled with pus and fluid, so the ability to absorb oxygen is reduced.

Dr. Prajna Paramita, MD, FCCP, mentions that the disease was caused by about 30 different sources of infection. However, the main cause is bacterial, viral, mikroplasma, mushrooms, various chemical compounds, and particles.

Although cases of pneumonia caused by bacteria is not too much, this type tend to cause more severe infections than those caused by nonbakteri. Respiratory syncytial virus (respiratory syncitial virus or RSV), painfluenzae, influenzae, and adenovirus were the most frequent cause of pneumonia.

Generally the lower respiratory tract viral infection takes place during winter or rain. And RSV the most common cause of pneumonia, especially in infants.

Difficult Breathing

Pneumonia arises because inhaled germs nose and mouth. When the environment around any person or child who is infected, the risk of acquiring a very large, especially when the immune system is not good.

"Pneumonia, including serious and dangerous diseases," said lung specialist from Gatot Subroto Army Hospital who was familiarly called Dr. Mita is.

Because of pus and fluid meet the lungs, the oxygen in the body sel sel was reduced and can not work. Consequently, in addition to the spread of infection throughout the body, the patient could die.

Pneumonia is characterized by cough with difficult breathing, shortness of breath, or chest wall occurs withdrawal into the bottom of (severe chest indrawing). Symptoms of difficulty breathing can also be accompanied by symptoms of cyanosis (bluish skin and mucosa in part because of reduced hemoglobin in the blood capillaries) central and can not drink.

In children aged under 2 months, severe pneumonia characterized often breathing frequency. Could be 60 times or more breaths per minute, with a strong withdrawal on the chest wall into the bottom.

Other symptoms are sore throat (laryngitis). Consequently hoarse voice changes around the vocal cords because there are lots of mucus.

Through the chest X-ray examination, we know there is a problem in the lung. Clinical signs which can usually be found spots on lungs. However, clinical signs of tuberculosis is not sufficient because it was marked by a plaque.

Therefore, investigations such as blood, sputum, and symptoms are very important to determine plaque is a sign of tuberculosis or pneumonia.

Need to Manage Eating

The initial treatment for pneumonia is usually in the form of antibiotics. If the cause is bacterial, mikroplasma, and rickettsia, antibiotics usually are quite potent. For pneumonia caused by a virus, until now there is no specific guidance, although some antiviral drugs have been used.

In addition to antibiotics, patients will also receive additional therapy in the form of regulation of food and oxygen to increase the amount of oxygen in the blood. Long period of rest is needed to restore the body.

Steps to Prevent

The type and severity of the disease is caused by several factors, including age, type of kelemin, season, and population density. In children, infection is more often about boys than girls. Peak invasive infections between the ages of 2 and 3 years and thereafter will decrease little by little.

Some cases of pneumonia not caused by infection of microorganisms. It could also be due to aspiration of food or acid reflux, foreign bodies, hydrocarbons, lipoid material, hypersensitivity reactions of the respiratory tract, caused by drugs, radiation, and environmental conditions.

To reduce risk of pneumonia need some strategic measures such as:

* Maintain cleanliness of the neighborhood.
* Ensuring good air circulation.
* Avoid smoking and cough.
* Eat a balanced diet,
* Perform immunization, especially for children. HB vaccine has been widely used to ward off pneumonia, other than meningitis. This vaccine to ward off attacks Haemophyllus influenzae type B bacteria that can cause both types of the disease.

Existing vaccine

Bacterial Pneumonia
This species can attack the baby to old age. Alcoholics, patients with post-surgery, patients with respiratory disease, are infected with a virus or immune declining, vulnerable to this disease.