Why are patients with cerebral infarction prone to pneumonia?

After suffering from cerebral infarction, patients are easy to combine with pneumonia, especially patients with poor prognosis of cerebral infarction are often accompanied by dysphagia, choking and coughing, and bedridden for many years, which can easily lead to aspiration pneumonia, and bedridden for many years can easily lead to repeated pneumonia. Therefore, the prevention of pneumonia in patients with cerebral infarction is very crucial, and good nursing care should be taken to turn the patient over and knock the back to prevent the occurrence of aspiration pneumonia. At the same time in the diet as much as possible to eat food can be swallowed, eat to let the patient sit to eat to prevent food reflux, aspiration, swallowing difficulties in elderly patients can also choose nasal feeding.