Prevents the cough from turning into pneumonia

• May 6, 2024

A cough is a symptom of a disease and a mechanism to maintain throat and the respiratory tract clean or permeable. However, the excessive cough It can mean that you have a more serious condition, so you need attention in time so that things do not go to extremes and become pneumonia .

The actor and comedian Margarito Esparza died on the night of this Sunday, May 15, after having entered the ISSSTE hospital in Puebla due to a pneumonia.

The doctor Arantxa Campo Ezquibela , specialist in Pneumology at the Clinic of the University of Navarra (Spain), pointed out that pneumonia is the infection of the lung tissues produced by an infectious agent. It is considered a serious and especially dangerous disease for children and seniors, so it is recommended to go to the consultation with a pulmonologist, since its treatment requires strict surveillance and, in severe cases, hospitalization. In addition, another group of the population in risk are the people who suffer from emphysema pulmonary, bronchitis or some neuropathy chronic, those who must reinforce health care.

The symptoms of pneumonias are variable. Some cases are presented with a "typical pneumonia ", which consists of the appearance of cough with purulent or rusty expectoration, sometimes with blood, chest pain and fever with chills.This pneumonia is most frequently produced by the pneumococcus .

Other pneumonias, called "atypical ", produce more gradual symptoms with tenths of fever, malaise, muscle and joint pain, fatigue and headache.

The cough is dry, without expectoration, and the less intense chest pain. Some patients may have digestive symptoms mild as nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. Most pneumonias, the specialist adds, have characteristics of both groups. If the pneumonia is extensive or there is a previous pulmonary or cardiac disease it may appear respiratory distress .

If you suffer from a cough , however minimal it may seem, attend it, do not let it get complicated and reach more serious instances in which your life could be in danger. Your health is the most important .
 

Video Medicine: Mayo Clinic Minute: Is pneumonia bacterial or viral? (May 2024).