What are the characteristics of streptococcal pneumonia?



Streptococcus pneumonia has an acute onset and is characterized by high fever, chills, cough, bloody sputum and chest pain.

Streptococcus pneumoniae is often preceded by a history of cold, rain or viral infection, and may present with symptoms of upper respiratory tract infection, accompanied by chills, elevated body temperature (which may rise to 39~40°C in a few hours), generalized muscle aches and pains, etc. The sputum may have blood or be rust-colored.

Some patients have chest pain on the affected side, which may radiate to the shoulder or abdomen, poor appetite, occasional nausea, diarrhea, etc., which is easily misdiagnosed as acute abdomen.

Patients often present with acute fever, red cheeks, flaring nose, herpes simplex at the corners of the mouth and around the nose, etc. Early lung signs are not obvious abnormalities, slightly turbid to percussion, auscultation can be breath sounds and pleural friction, heart rate increases or arrhythmia, severe infection can be accompanied by shock, respiratory distress syndrome, etc., imaging can be seen in the lung segments or lobes of the lungs acute inflammatory solid changes.

If the above symptoms appear, you should go to the hospital in time for diagnosis and treatment.