How to recognize pneumonia

 Start of pneumonia as a separate disease usually sharp - sharp, dry cough without sputum, fever, appearance of pain in the chest. Sometimes the first day the patient begins to bother flank pain, aggravated by deep breathing, coughing or sneezing. Often on one cheek appears bright blush (usually on the side of the affected lung), which looks unusually against the general pallor of the skin. A person may lose appetite and inspection language show the presence of dense brown-white bloom. Urine becomes dark and scant.

If pneumonia develops as a complication of infectious diseases, you should pay attention to the following symptoms:

- Cough becoming the main feature, a manifestation of the disease - at first it can be dry in a few days begins to stand out phlegm. Discharge may be purulent, with mucus.

- If your illness lasts more than a week, and it began as an ordinary SARS (malaise, runny nose, red throat, cough), then there is a reason for seeking medical attention. Also, you should alert the sudden deterioration of health, especially against the explicit recovery.

- If you find it hard to breathe - every breath accompanied by a coughing fit, it may be a symptom of pneumonia.

- Usually pneumonia skin is very pale, sometimes under the eyes lie deep blue shade, and nasolabial triangle becomes bluish.

- If you have a shortness of breath, even in the absence of a temperature or a slight increase.

- When the heat does not get off drugs.

A characteristic feature of pneumonia is subsided, the activation process - the temperature can suddenly return to normal, symptoms weakened (except the cough), and a few days there will come a sharp deterioration. Sometimes pneumonia, which is a complication of other infectious disease becomes chronic - this is due to wrong diagnosis or in the absence of adequate treatment. Such conditions are very dangerous because of the possibility of death.