What to do when an elderly person’s pneumonia is clinically better but not on CT?

If the clinical symptoms of pneumonia in the elderly improve but the chest CT does not show any improvement, we need to combine the patient’s symptoms, infection indexes and other laboratory results, and choose to continue the treatment, or clinical observation, and then review the chest CT in about 14 days. Because the improvement in imaging performance is generally later than the improvement in clinical symptoms, so when the clinical symptoms of pneumonia in the elderly improve but the chest CT does not show any improvement, you can combine the clinical symptoms and infection indexes (routine blood, C-reactive protein, calcitonin, etc.) to make a comprehensive judgment, if the infection indexes are still high, and there are also symptoms, such as coughing, coughing up sputum, etc., you generally need to continue the anti-infective treatment. If the infection index has been reduced to normal, but with occasional symptoms such as cough and sputum, you can choose to continue observation. Chest CT will be repeated in about 14 days. As pneumonia patients are weak, during the inflammation recovery period, we should pay attention to rest, avoid overwork, eat a light diet, drink more water to promote the recovery of inflammation, and also pay attention to cold and warmth, to avoid cold caused by upper respiratory tract infections, but also to quit smoking, quit drinking, in order to reduce the aggravation of the inflammation and the chance of recurrence. Pneumonia patients need to consult a doctor in a timely manner, under the guidance of the physician active treatment.