What is Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection?

What is Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection? People often don't know the meaning of this disease when they encounter this disease, so it will be very blind for the treatment without the guidance of a doctor, and for the disease of Mycoplasma pneumonia, we need to explain it in detail, so that everyone can understand the meaning and harm of this disease.Let's take a look.

Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia is pneumonia caused by Mycoplasma pneumoniae and was once called primary atypical pneumonia. Onset is slow, with fever, paroxysmal irritating cough, and a small amount of mucinous or mucopurulent sputum (occasionally bloody sputum). Pulmonary signs are often subtle, but they tend to cause extrapulmonary multisystem involvement, which can be life-threatening or fatal. It is more common in children or adolescents, accounting for about 15%~30% of the total number of pneumonia, and can be as high as 40%~60% in epidemic years; The prognosis is generally good and is self-limiting.

The pathogen is Mycoplasma pneumoniae, which is a microorganism between bacteria and viruses, with no cell wall structure, facultative anaerobic, and the smallest microorganism that can live independently. It is mainly transmitted through the respiratory tract, and is infected by inhaling the mouth and nasal secretions of patients who cough and sneeze when they are sneezing. The pathogen usually exists between the ciliated epithelium of the respiratory tract, does not invade the lung parenchyma, and adsorbs to the surface of the host respiratory epithelial cell through the neuraminic acid receptor site on the cell membrane, inhibiting ciliary activity and destroying epithelial cells.

Mycoplasma pneumonium infection is a manifestation of pneumonia, this disease is a huge threat to the human body like pneumonia, and people need to pay attention to this disease, once the symptoms of M. pneumonium infection are found, they must be treated with care, so as not to transform pneumonia into other more serious diseases, so it is also very important for people to correctly understand the disease they are suffering from.