Symptoms of lower left pneumonia?

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Pneumonia, generally speaking, refers to inflammation in the lungs. Inflammation may exist in terminal airways, alveoli and pulmonary interstitium. Generally speaking, pneumonia is mainly caused by bacterial infection, which is a great threat to the health of children and the elderly. In recent years, the mortality of pneumonia is no longer reduced, or even increased. Symptoms of lower left pneumonia? Let's talk about it

Symptoms of lower left pneumonia?

Chills, high fever: typical cases of sudden onset of chills, followed by high fever, body temperature can be as high as 39 ℃ ~ 40 ℃, showing persistent fever type, often accompanied by headache, muscle soreness, reduced appetite. After the use of antibiotics, the fever type may not be typical, and the elderly and the weak may only have low fever or no fever.

Cough and expectoration: the initial stage is irritative dry cough, and then white mucus sputum or bloody sputum can be coughed up. After 1-2 days, mucus bloody sputum or rust colored sputum can be coughed up, and purulent sputum can also be coughed up. In the dissipation stage, the amount of sputum increases, and the sputum is yellow and thin.

Chest pain: more severe side chest pain, often needle like, with cough or deep breathing and aggravation, can radiate to the shoulder or abdomen. If it is lower lobe pneumonia, it can stimulate septal pleura and cause severe abdominal pain, which is easy to be misdiagnosed as acute abdomen.

matters needing attention

Winter is the high incidence period of pneumonia, we also know that pneumonia causes great harm to the child's body, so mothers must do a good job in the prevention of pneumonia, let the baby away from the invasion of pneumonia, let the baby healthy growth.