TREATMENT OPTIONS:
Treatment for pneumonia is to cure the infection and prevent complications now and in the future. People who have community-acquired pneumonia (most common type of pneumonia) can usually be treated at home with medication. Although most symptoms die down in a few days/weeks, the feeling of tiredness can go on in the next month or so.
Specific treatments depend on the type and severity of your pneumonia. Also health and age factors help determine the right treatment. The options include: -Antibiotics: medicines used to treat bacterial pneumonia -Fever reducers: drugs like aspirin, ibuprofen and acetaminophen -cough medicine: medicine used to calm your cough.
HOSPITALISATION MAYBE REQUIRED IF: You are older than age 65, you …show more content…
Pneumonia is usually not serious and lasts a short time but the flu virus can cause viral pneumonia to be severe or fatal. It is especially harmful to pregnant women or people with heart or lung issues.
Mycoplasma
-Mycoplasma are organisms but are neither viruses nor bacteria but they have traits common to both. Mycoplasmas cause mild cases of pneumonia, most often affecting older children and young adults.
Tuberculosis
Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP)
PCP mostly affects people with compromised immune systems, such as those who have AIDS and can be the first sign of illness in those with AIDS.
Pneumonia can also be caused by fungi, inhaling food, dust, liquid, or gases.
THE IMMUNE SYSTEM:
HOW IT …show more content…
White blood cells move through blood and tissue which make up the immune system. Whenever it is threatened by a germ (microbe) and over comes it, the immune system remembers this for when the body is faced again with this microbe in the future and knows how to defeat it. When antigens (foreign organisms that invade the body) are detected, several types of cells work together to recognize them and respond. These cells then trigger others cells to produce antibodies which are proteins that lock onto specific antigens. These antibodies now stay in the body for when the immune system encounters another antigen, and is there to fight it
Treatment for pneumonia is to cure the infection and prevent complications now and in the future. People who have community-acquired pneumonia (most common type of pneumonia) can usually be treated at home with medication. Although most symptoms die down in a few days/weeks, the feeling of tiredness can go on in the next month or so.
Specific treatments depend on the type and severity of your pneumonia. Also health and age factors help determine the right treatment. The options include: -Antibiotics: medicines used to treat bacterial pneumonia -Fever reducers: drugs like aspirin, ibuprofen and acetaminophen -cough medicine: medicine used to calm your cough.
HOSPITALISATION MAYBE REQUIRED IF: You are older than age 65, you …show more content…
Pneumonia is usually not serious and lasts a short time but the flu virus can cause viral pneumonia to be severe or fatal. It is especially harmful to pregnant women or people with heart or lung issues.
Mycoplasma
-Mycoplasma are organisms but are neither viruses nor bacteria but they have traits common to both. Mycoplasmas cause mild cases of pneumonia, most often affecting older children and young adults.
Tuberculosis
Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP)
PCP mostly affects people with compromised immune systems, such as those who have AIDS and can be the first sign of illness in those with AIDS.
Pneumonia can also be caused by fungi, inhaling food, dust, liquid, or gases.
THE IMMUNE SYSTEM:
HOW IT …show more content…
White blood cells move through blood and tissue which make up the immune system. Whenever it is threatened by a germ (microbe) and over comes it, the immune system remembers this for when the body is faced again with this microbe in the future and knows how to defeat it. When antigens (foreign organisms that invade the body) are detected, several types of cells work together to recognize them and respond. These cells then trigger others cells to produce antibodies which are proteins that lock onto specific antigens. These antibodies now stay in the body for when the immune system encounters another antigen, and is there to fight it