Pneumonia or pneumonia is a fairly common disease that can result in a fatal outcome. Therefore, it is very important to know the symptoms of pneumonia in adults, in order to respond immediately and start treatment.
Symptoms of different types of pneumonia in adults
The disease is dangerous because it is difficult to determine and the time taken to establish the diagnosis and causes of the disease can be irretrievably lost.
Depending on the nature of the course and appearance, the following types of pneumonia are distinguished:
- virus;
- croupous;
- radical;
- fungal;
- hidden.
Symptoms of croupous pneumonia
These include:
- chills;
- a sharp rise in temperature to 40 degrees;
- sweating;
- weakness and lethargy;
- vomiting;
- dyspnea;
- swelling;
- chest pain;
- confusion of consciousness;
- headache.
Croup pneumonia is one of the forms of pneumococcal pneumonia and can affect the lobe of the lung.
Symptoms of viral pneumonia
Signs of a viral lung injury are:
- fever;
- weakness and malaise;
- nausea and vomiting;
- aches and pains in the joints and muscles;
- coryza;
- dry cough turning into wet;
- pus in sputum.
Symptoms of radical pneumonia
This inflammation is manifested by the following symptoms:
- elevated temperature;
- cough;
- an increase in leukocytes in the blood.
Determine this type of disease is quite difficult. This is due to the location of the focus of the disease on the root of the lung. Most often do an X-ray, but sometimes doctors can confuse it with tuberculosis or bronchial cancer.
Symptoms of fungal pneumonia
Symptoms may differ slightly from one another, depending on which kind of disease is provoked. Although in general they are similar:
- there is a cough;
- the temperature rises;
- muscle pains are felt.
Most often, the disease can be triggered by candidiasis, streptotrichosis, blastomycosis. Infection occurs by inhalation of spores of a fungal bacterium, which can be found on rotting boards, molds, in damp areas.
Symptoms of Chlamydia pneumonia
There is a separate type of SARS, which is provoked by chlamydia. Symptoms of pneumonia caused by chlamydia are as follows:
- signs of colds;
- overgrowth in bronchitis;
- weakness;
- elevated temperature;
- intoxication of the body;
- a hoarse voice;
- increased coughing attacks;
- rattling in the lungs.
Signs of latent and chronic form of the disease
The most dangerous of the diseases is a latent form of pneumonia, which is difficult to determine due to the lack of temperature in the patient, coughing and pain in the chest. However, experienced doctors still know certain symptoms of latent pneumonia:
- abrupt wheezing;
- droplets of sweat on the forehead after a slight load;
- dyspnea;
- the appearance of a painful, spotted blush on the cheeks;
- difficulties with deep inspiration;
- rapid pulse;
- general weakness;
- constant thirst;
- lack of movement of one half of the chest during breathing;
- pain in lateral bends of the body.
If during the manifestation of acute pneumonia is not treated, the disease can go into a chronic form. Sometimes this can be triggered by complications for the destruction of the lungs after its acute form. Symptoms of chronic pneumonia are:
- hard breathing;
- cardiopalmus;
- signs of intoxication;
- change in blood composition;
- shortness of breath ;
- deformation of the chest;
- moist cough with purulent secretions without a smell;
- inflammation of the nasopharynx and mouth;
- difficult breathing during complications;
- polyhypovitaminosis;
- hypoproteinemia.
Exacerbations of the disease can occur within one or several weeks, and then a period of remission occurs. It is very important to properly treat and preventive measures, which are aimed at improving immunity and increasing the body's resistance.