What are the symptoms of mycoplasma pneumonia? Symptoms can be mild or severe, and prompt treatment is key

Mycoplasma pneumonia, caused by mycoplasma (MP) infection, presents with interstitial pneumonia and bronchiolitis-like changes, accounting for 10%~40% of community-acquired pneumonia in children, and pulmonary lesions are confluent bronchopneumonia, interstitial pneumonia, and bronchitis.The clinical manifestation is lung inflammation with intractable severe cough.

Mycoplasma pneumonia infection can have a big impact on the patient's life and also on the people around the patient because it is a communicable disease. In general, mycoplasma pneumonia infection develops slowly at first, and may manifest as symptoms of pharyngitis or bronchitis, which can easily lead to misdiagnosis.

When the patient has dizziness, headache, chills, high fever, general weakness, cough, sputum production, pharyngitis and other phenomena, it is a symptom of mycoplasma pneumonia infection. Among them, the high fever can reach more than 39°C, and the sputum coughed up may be thick sputum, sticky sputum or more serious bloody sputum. At the onset of the disease, there may be throat congestion, nasal congestion, runny nose and other phenomena, and more severe patients may have symptoms such as chest tightness and shortness of breath and difficulty breathing. In addition, some systemic symptoms manifest as muscle aches, loss of appetite, diarrhea, joint aches, vomiting and nausea.

It should be noted that the condition of mycoplasma pneumonia infection is generally not too serious, and timely treatment according to the doctor's instructions generally does not appear life-threatening. However, there are also some special circumstances that can cause the disease to worsen, such as mycoplasma pneumonia infection that is not cured, and other diseases, which will greatly increase the number of days of treatment and make the treatment process more slow.

During the illness, you must follow the doctor's instructions to take medication and take care of your body to improve the efficiency of treatment and strive to recover your health as soon as possible.

However, a very small number of patients will have more and more severe symptoms, such as meningitis, gastroenteritis, orifitis, myocarditis, hepatitis, etc. Therefore, after the disease is diagnosed, it is necessary to cure mycoplasma pneumonia infection as soon as possible to prevent other symptoms from taking advantage of it.