The early signs of pneumonia vary and are mainly related to the severity of the pneumonia and the pathogen of infection. Symptoms usually include cough, sputum, nasal congestion, runny nose, sore throat, and fatigue. Pneumonia according to the cause of clinical common bacterial pneumonia, viral pneumonia, pneumonia caused by atypical pathogens and so on.
1. The symptoms of bacterial pneumonia can be mild or severe, and before the onset of the disease, there are often cold, rain and other triggers, and it is easy to appear nasal congestion, runny nose, sneezing and other precursor symptoms. The onset of the disease is rapid, high fever, chills, generalized muscle pain, and some patients may have chest pain.
2. Viral pneumonia occurs in the season when viral diseases are prevalent, and the symptoms are usually mild, often in the acute influenza symptoms have not yet subsided, cough, white mucus sputum, sore throat and other respiratory symptoms. However, children or the elderly due to low immunity are prone to severe pneumonia, manifested by respiratory distress, cyanosis and even shock.
3. Pneumonia caused by atypical pathogens such as Mycoplasma pneumoniae has a slow onset, and can be asymptomatic for a few days to a week at first, followed by fatigue, headache, sore throat, muscle aches and pains, and coughing, which is mostly episodic dry cough.
It is recommended that when the above respiratory symptoms occur, timely go to the hospital for consultation, and give targeted treatment and therapy after clarifying the cause of the disease.