The treatment of pneumonia does not require the use of hormones, the focus of the treatment of pneumonia is to choose sensitive anti-sense drug anti-sense treatment, only to control the causative agent can effectively cure pneumonia. Therefore, hormones are generally not needed, and after the use of hormones, can reduce the body’s immunity and resistance, which can easily lead to the spread of inflammation in the lungs, thus aggravating the degree of lung infection and worsening the condition. But a small number of patients with pneumonia can use hormones in moderation, mainly in patients with severe pneumonia, because of its systemic toxicity symptoms are obvious, accompanied by chills, high fever, and even the formation of respiratory failure, heart failure and other organs of the functional damage, this time through the hormone inhibition of its immune response, reduce the systemic inflammatory response, alleviate its clinical symptoms. In addition, for some of the poor absorption of pneumonia, especially organic pneumonia, patients need to use the appropriate amount of hormones to promote the absorption of the lesions, hormones must have a strong anti-infective drugs under the treatment can be used.