What are the symptoms and manifestations of pneumonia?

The symptoms and manifestations of pneumonia mainly include cough, which can be accompanied by sputum production, chest pain, hemoptysis and systemic symptoms (such as fever and fatigue), and the specific symptoms and manifestations are related to the type and degree of pneumonia, as follows:

1. Bacterial pneumonia

Symptoms of bacterial pneumonia can range from mild to severe, depending on the organism and host, and are common with cough, sputum production, or worsening of pre-existing respiratory symptoms with purulent or bloody sputum, with or without chest pain.Patients with large lesions may have dyspnea, respiratory distress, and most patients have fever. There is no obvious abnormality in the early pulmonary signs, and severe patients may have increased respiratory rate, nasal flaring, and cyanosis.

2. Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumoniae

The onset is slow, with an asymptomatic period of a few days to a week at first, followed by fatigue, headache, sore throat, muscle aches, obvious cough, mostly episodic dry cough, severe at night, purulent sputum, persistent paroxysmal severe cough is a typical manifestation of mycoplasma pneumonia. Chest signs are subtle and do not correspond to the extent of pulmonary lesions.

3. Viral pneumonia

The onset is acute, and systemic symptoms such as fever, headache, body aches, and fatigue are more prominent. There are often no significant chest signs, and severe cases have shallow and rapid breathing, rapid heart rate, cyanosis, and dry and wet rales in the lungs.

4. Miscellaneous

Patients with fungal pneumonia may have chills, fever, white foamy sputum, fermented odor, sputum or jelly, hemoptysis and other manifestations.

Patients with severe pneumonia can be complicated by respiratory distress syndrome, which seriously threatens the lives of patients, and patients with pneumonia should seek medical attention in time and treat them as soon as possible to relieve the threat to their lives.