The medication for lung infections needs to be based on the type of pathogenic microorganisms and the results of drug sensitivity tests to choose drugs with high sensitivity, commonly used such as cefuroxime sodium, cefoxitin, levofloxacin, moxifloxacin and so on.
Pneumonia is a typical lung infection in clinical practice and is representative. According to the causative factors can be divided into bacterial pneumonia, pneumonia caused by atypical pathogens, viral pneumonia, pulmonary mycosis, pneumonia caused by other pathogens and pneumonia caused by physical and chemical factors, the treatment of drugs need to be selected according to the cause of the disease.
1. Bacterial pneumonia: broad-spectrum antibiotics such as penicillin and cefuroxime can be chosen before the pathogen detection and drug sensitivity test are perfected, and then adjusted to sensitive drugs accordingly after the relevant examination is perfected. For example, penicillin, levofloxacin, ceftriaxone, etc. are commonly used for Streptococcus pneumoniae infection; cefuroxime, amikacin, amoxicillin, etc. are commonly used for staphylococcal infections; vancomycin, linezolid, etc. can be used for pneumonia infected by multi-drug resistant bacteria.
2. Pneumonia caused by atypical pathogens: commonly used drugs are mainly macrolide antibiotics, such as erythromycin, azithromycin, clarithromycin and so on.
3. Viral pneumonia: the main treatment is antiviral drugs, such as oseltamivir, ribavirin, etc..
4. Pulmonary fungal disease: mainly antifungal drugs, need to choose the appropriate drugs according to the pathogen, commonly used amphotericin B, fluconazole, itraconazole, etc..
5. Pneumonia caused by other pathogens: need to choose according to the pathogen.
6. Pneumonia caused by physical and chemical factors: mostly caused by radiation, gastric acid inhalation, etc. The treatment is mainly causative.
Cough, sputum, fever and other discomforts caused by lung infections, it is recommended to improve the relevant laboratory tests, pathogenetic culture and drug sensitivity tests, and comply with the doctor’s instructions in a timely and reasonable standardized treatment, to avoid delaying the condition.