What is Pneumonia?

Pneumonia, the lungs of alveolar emergence of the symptoms of inflammation. Pneumonia can occur in people of any age, but for the young and the elderly, and for those with poor immune deficiency syndrome or the immune system is a high-risk patients. They are more vulnerable to get disease. For others, their body's own immune system have the ability to fight mild infection. The general will prescribe antibiotics to treat. If the condition is serious, can be fatal.

Symptoms of Pneumonia
Common symptoms
     -   Spit : a yellowish green
     -   High fever : the temperature at least 39.5 ° C or 103 ° F
     -  Chills: usually associated with chills (rigors)
     -  Cough : serious when they feel chest pain
     -  Chest pain: was violent or acupuncture-like chest pain sense. Deep breathing or coughing, chest pain, flu is more apparent.
     -  Breathing is shallow and too fast:
     -  Shortness of breath:

    Rare symptoms
    -  Coughing up blood
    -  Headache , including migraine
    -  Excessive sweating and sticky (clammy) skin
    -  Loss of appetite
    -  Too tired
    -  Pale

If you do not treat pneumonia, may result in sepsis and acute respiratory failure syndrome. They are the main cause of death in patients without treatment.