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Pneumonia can be caused by complications from measles, whooping cough, influenza, bronchitis, asthma or any other illness. In pneumonia, most are caused by pneumococcus bacteria.
Also can be caused by germs (bacteria), viruses (virus), parasites (parasites), or fungi (fungus).
Symptoms:
1. fast, shallow sometimes wheezing and throbbing nose.
2. usually yellow sputum, that may have blood.
3. chest pain.
4. baby you are seriously ill and shortness of breath 50/1 minutes to pneumonia.
In the United States, 4 million people get pneumonia each year, largely due to the pneumococcus. About 40,000 people die from the disease each year. It is one of the leading causes of hospitalization of people over age 65. People with pre-illness causes the resistance of the body to decline (such as AIDS, kidney disease, etc.) are also susceptible pneumococcus pneumonia. [2]
Complications
From lung, pneumococcus bacteria can enter the blood, causing blood infections (bacteremia), and the blood to sow flower to other organs (brain, heart, joints, etc.). Once blood infection or inflammation of the meninges occurs, mortality is very high.
Treatment
1. antibiotics as: penicillin, sunphamit.
2.Parenteral penicillin procaine: Adults injections 2 to 3 times per 400 000 units. Or injected ampixilin: adult day injected 4 times with 500 mg. Children dosage by 1/2 to 1/4 adults.
3. heat and pain: use aspirin, axetaminophen,
4.plenty of hot water or steam inhalation.
5. not eat: for liquid food.
6.wheezing illness: asthma medication as teophylin or ephedrine. [3]
Vaccinations Vaccines
The vaccine is a good way to prevent pneumonia caused by pneumococcus bacteria. According to the National Institute of Aging (National Institute of Aging) in the United States, drug pneumococcus pneumonia vaccine (pneumococcal vaccine) effective, sponsored by the Medicare program, but, a lot of older or are brought ill not vaccinated. Items from the past year, since 2000, the Department of Public Health (Public Health Service) hope that the United States is the number of people vaccinated more than 60%.
Pneumococcus bacteria have many lines, but the same breed. Pneumococcus pneumonia vaccine contain substances taken from 23 different pneumococcus strains. Drug injected to stimulate the body will create antibodies (antibodies) against these strains.
The majority of our healthy, 2-3 weeks after vaccination, the people will have antibodies against all or most of the germs, help prevent pneumonia caused by them (protection results 85-95%). Elderly and people with some chronic diseases can not make antibodies as well as healthy young people, so the protection of inferior drugs. Children under 2 years are the same.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Act (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) recommends doctors pneumonia pneumococcus vaccine for you of the following components, can be life-threatening if pneumococcus pneumonia:
- 65 years of age, though there is no critical illness.
- Children over 2 years and adults under 65 are chronic carriers of diseases such as heart disease, lung disease, kidney, diabetes, AIDS, cancer, etc., or who are taking drugs that cause resistance range of body deterioration, such as steroids, anti-cancer drugs.
- He splenectomy, or spleen disease, should not work normally (the spleen is an important organ in the creation of antibodies).
- Those who are in the hospital intensive care (eg nursing homes).
- He has been replaced organ (organ transplant recipients), such as kidney transplants.
- People with cirrhosis of the liver (cirrhosis), or even less, but heavy drinkers.
In principle, a nasal vaccine will protect it for a lifetime, but the following should be vaccinated again after five years, due to the protection faded over time:
1.also spleen (or spleen disease, do not work properly);
2. kidney;
3. nephrotic syndrome (nephrotic syndrome: kidneys keep protein, causing any loss of protein in the urine);
5. chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) caused by smoking;
6. on 65 shots before, if any, have more than 5 years.
After vaccination, usually just a little pain and redness at the injection site. Some people have pain, redness more, sometimes fever and muscle aches (less than 1% of the vaccinated cases). Sometimes people with severe reactions (anaphylaxis), and cause cardiovascular collapse (about 5/1.000.000 severe reaction).
In 2005, Rare flu vaccine in the United States (as the British drug company Chiron provide up to half of the flu vaccine to local) [4]; this can increase the pneumococcus pneumonia cases in 2006 and later.
