Treatment of Pneumonia that You Can Try

Roseous.com - Treatment of Pneumonia that You Can Try. Pneumonia or commonly called pneumonia is one of the diseases that the number of sufferers continues to increase. This disease causes inflammation of the pulmonary alveolar organ (alveoli) responsible for absorbing oxygen from the atmosphere so that the lungs are not filled with fluids.

Causes of Lung Inflammation

Pneumococcal disease can be caused by viral infections, bacteria, fungi and parasites that enter when breathing. Not only that, pneumonia can also be caused by exposure to chemicals, bodily injury or because of other diseases such as lung cancer to the habit of drinking alcohol excessively.

Meanwhile, some things that are the source of the emergence of pneumonia such as exhaust fumes, cigarette smoke, damp house and unhealthy environment.

Although pneumonia is a common disease that can affect all people, children who have a weak immune system is the most susceptible to this disease.

Symptoms of Pneumonia

Patients with infectious pneumonia usually have productive cough, fever accompanied by chills, difficulty breathing, sharp chest pain during deep breathing, and increased respiration rate.

In the elderly, the appearance of confusion becomes the most important sign. While the signs and symptoms specific to children under five that is fever, cough, and breath is fast or difficult.

However, cough symptoms often do not appear in children younger than 2 months. More severe signs and symptoms include: blue skin, reduced thirst, convulsions, persistent vomiting, extreme temperatures, or decreased levels of consciousness.

Also note, the symptoms of pneumonia can be based on its severity. The diversity of these symptoms can also be caused by differences in the types of bacteria that trigger infection, age, and health conditions of people.

However, common symptoms that usually appear include:

• Chest pain when inhaling or coughing.
• Nausea or vomiting.
• Diarrhea.
• Fever.
• Fatigue.
• Hard to breathe.
• Sweating and shivering.
• Dry cough or cough with thick sputum yellow, green, or with blood.

Immediately seek medical help in case of severe symptoms, such as wheezing, chest pains, or daze attacks you.

Treatment of Lung Inflammation

Handling is done to overcome mild pneumonia is by prescribing antibiotics prescribed doctors, enough rest and consume lots of water. People of this type do not require hospitalization.

In addition, the following simple steps can also help to relieve symptoms that you experience, including:

• Avoid consumption of cough medicines because coughing helps you remove phlegm from the lungs. Relieving cough may result in longer duration of infection. Cough medicine has also not been proven to be medically effective. Hot water mixed with honey and lemon can help reduce your cough.
• Eating analgesics (painkillers) such as paracetamol or ibuprofen to relieve and reduce fever. However, avoid the consumption of ibuprofen if you have an allergy to aspirin, other nonstereoid anti-inflammatory drugs, or suffer from asthma, gastric ulcer, and liver or digestive disorders.

Quitting smoking because of this habit can worsen pneumonia.

Meanwhile, people with healthy physical condition will recover normally after 14-21 days. However, if the symptoms of pneumonia do not improve at all within 48 hours, you are advised to call your doctor again.

It may be that your antibiotic is not effective to eradicate the bacteria triggering pneumonia, or caused by other factors such as viruses.

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In general, inflammation of the lungs is not contagious, but people with weakened immune systems should stay away from patients with pneumonia until the condition of the patient really recovered.

As for the treatment of pneumonia naturally, you can take advantage of leaf sambiloto or mangosteen skin essence. How to use it the same, sambiloto or dried mangosteen peel and then pounded into a powder.

Then brewed with hot water like making coffee, do this routinely at least 2 times a day until pneumonia slowly begins to disappear. If the pain persists then immediately perform a medical examination such as x-ray to find out how severe your pneumonia.