Routine blood tests cannot detect pneumonia. The diagnosis of pneumonia requires a combination of clinical symptoms, signs, imaging, and biochemical test results.
The blood test results of patients with pneumonia can be normal or abnormal, and the diagnosis of pneumonia cannot be made solely from the blood test.
Pneumonia patients often have fever, cough, sputum, chest pain and other symptoms; some patients can be found through the examination of the lungs have dry and wet rales and other abnormal signs; can be found through the chest radiographs or CT of the lungs flaky, patchy infiltration shadows or interstitial changes; patients with pneumonia can also appear in the blood routine of the leukocytes increased or decreased significantly. The above factors need to be analyzed together to make a diagnosis of pneumonia.
Pneumonia is recommended to determine the treatment plan under the guidance of a doctor, to avoid blindly self-medication.