Early Symptoms and Clinical Manifestations of Fungal Pneumonia Infection Can fungal pneumonia infect people?

What are the early symptoms and clinical manifestations of fungal pneumonia infection? The early symptoms of fungal pneumonia are fever, cough, and sputum production.

1. Fever

When fungal infection of lung tissue causes inflammation, patients often have fever symptoms such as increased body temperature, chills, and cold intolerance.

2. Cough

Patients often present with paroxysmal irritating cough, especially at night.

3. Coughing up phlegm

Patients may cough up white, frothy sputum with a fermented odor. Some patients may also cough up jelly-like sputum.

Because the early symptoms of fungal pneumonia are similar to those of bacterial pneumonia and viral pneumonia, patients with cough and sputum production symptoms need to go to the hospital for sputum culture and blood culture to confirm the diagnosis.

Patients with fungal pneumonia usually have varying degrees of cough and sputum production, and the sputum is mostly white jelly-like and sometimes stringy. Some patients may cough up purulent sputum, and others may have symptoms of hemoptysis. Patients often have varying degrees of chest pain and discomfort, and can also have chills and fever, mostly low to moderate fever. A small number of patients present with asthma-like attacks due to allergic reactions triggered by fungal infections, presenting with chest tightness and dyspnea. Sometimes a small number of patients with fungal infections have no obvious clinical symptoms and are only detected during physical examination.

Can fungal pneumonia infect people?

The fungus is generally transmitted through the airborne droplet respiratory tract, and patients with low immunity are easily infected, so it is necessary to strengthen prevention at ordinary times. Fungal pneumonia is contagious because it is easily contagious after a fungal infection. This disease is contagious, need to be isolated and treated, the most important thing is to pay attention to rest in daily life, avoid fatigue, and pay attention to personal hygiene, to avoid the abuse of antibiotics, to prevent the aggravation of the disease, affect the treatment effect, and pay attention to their diet.Because normal people have strong resistance, even if they inhale droplets containing fungi, they will not get sick, but if they are immunocompromised, they may be infected. Therefore, we must strengthen prevention in daily life and wear a mask to prevent infection. Normally, fungal pneumonia is not contagious.