What is the difference between mild, moderate and severe pneumonia

1. What is moderate pneumonia?
2. Which type of pneumonia is the most serious?
3. What are the 3 types of pneumonia?
4. What is a severe pneumonia?
5. Is bacterial or viral pneumonia worse?
6. What does pneumonia feel like at first?
7. What are the symptoms of dying from pneumonia?
8. How can you tell if pneumonia is viral or bacterial?
9. How long does it take for lungs to heal after pneumonia?
10. What is the best antibiotic to treat pneumonia?
11. How do you know what type of pneumonia you have?
12. Can I have pneumonia without a fever?

What is moderate pneumonia?

The signs of moderate pneumonia include drowsiness and confusion, low blood pressure, worsening shortness of breath, and risk factors such as old age and underlying diseases. People with these symptoms need to have treatment at a hospital.

Which type of pneumonia is the most serious?

Hospital-acquired pneumonia.

You catch this type during a stay in a hospital. It can be serious because the bacteria causing the pneumonia can be resistant to antibiotics. You're more likely to get this type if: You're on a breathing machine.

What are the 3 types of pneumonia?

The main types of pneumonia are bacterial, viral, and mycoplasma pneumonia.

What is a severe pneumonia?

Pneumonia is a lung infection that can range from mild to so severe that you have to go to the hospital. It happens when an infection causes the air sacs in your lungs (your doctor will call them alveoli) to fill with fluid or pus. That can make it hard for you to breathe in enough oxygen to reach your bloodstream.

Is bacterial or viral pneumonia worse?

Bacterial and viral pneumonia are more common than pneumonia resulting from fungal infections. Bacteria such as Streptococcus pneumoniae cause bacterial pneumonia. This type of pneumonia is usually more severe than viral pneumonia.

What does pneumonia feel like at first?

The symptoms of viral pneumonia usually develop over a period of several days. Early symptoms are similar to influenza symptoms: fever, a dry cough, headache, muscle pain, and weakness. Within a day or two, the symptoms typically get worse, with increasing cough, shortness of breath and muscle pain.

What are the symptoms of dying from pneumonia?

Some signs and symptoms that increase the risk of dying from aspiration pneumonia include:

• Blue lips, tongue, or fingers.
• Difficulty swallowing.
• Shortness of breath or trouble breathing.
• Chest pain.
• Sweating.
• Raspy sounds from the throat or chest.
• Unexplained sweating.
• Symptoms of a lower respiratory infection.

How can you tell if pneumonia is viral or bacterial?

Often viral cases of pneumonia begin as congestion and cough with or without fever in the first few days. When a doctor listens to the lungs and finds breathing sounds are not clear on either side of the chest, a viral cause over bacterial is even more highly suspected.

How long does it take for lungs to heal after pneumonia?

Recovering from pneumonia

What is the best antibiotic to treat pneumonia?

Macrolides. The best initial antibiotic choice is thought to be a macrolide. Macrolides provide the best coverage for the most likely organisms in community-acquired bacterial pneumonia (CAP). Macrolides have effective coverage for gram-positive, Legionella, and Mycoplasma organisms.

How do you know what type of pneumonia you have?

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1. Blood tests. Blood tests are used to confirm an infection and to try to identify the type of organism causing the infection. ...
2. Chest X-ray. This helps your doctor diagnose pneumonia and determine the extent and location of the infection. ...
3. Pulse oximetry. ...
4. Sputum test.

Can I have pneumonia without a fever?

It is possible to have pneumonia without a cough or fever. Symptoms may come on quickly or may worsen slowly over time. Sometimes a person who has a viral upper respiratory infection (cold) will get a new fever and worsening that signals the start of the secondary bacterial infection.