Pneumonia

Overview

Pneumonia is a lung disease. It makes breathing challenging and lowers the body's oxygen levels. Microbes like bacteria, viruses, and fungi are the main causes of it. In pneumonia, the air pouches that are normally filled with air during breathing are instead filled with fluid. In other words, a pneumonia patient's lungs are filled with fluid instead of air. This may result in symptoms like coughing, fever, breathlessness, and chest pain. Pneumonia primarily affects children under the age of two and the elderly over the age of fifty. Diagnosis can be done by chest X-ray, CT scan, blood analysis, and sputum analysis. Most cases of pneumonia can be treated with oral antibiotics. Even if you start to feel better, always finish your prescription of antibiotics.