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Health Articles About Pneumonia

Multilobar Pneumonia Review

When a strong virus, bacteria, or fungus gets past the body’s normal defenses and causes an infection in the lungs, the person has pneumonia. Pneumonia that is contracted as you go about your daily life is called community associated pneumonia. People can contract pneumonia in hospitals. Ventilator associated pneumonia is particularly troublesome to treat because [...]

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Ventilator Associated Pneumonia Treatment

Pneumonia is a respiratory infection of the lungs. Viruses, bacteria, or fungi that get past the body’s protection system and into the lungs cause infection. The body responds to these invaders by sending immune cells to the lungs. The action of the immune cells causes inflammation, making it hard to breathe and allowing pus and [...]

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Is Walking Pneumonia Contagious?

This article will explain the underlying nature of this type of pneumonia and is walking pneumonia contagious and what to do to protect yourself and your loved ones. Walking pneumonia is a case of bacterial infection in the lungs that is somewhat mild in nature and allows a person to continue with his daily tasks. [...]

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Pseudomonas Pneumonia Risk Factors

Pseudomonas pneumonia is an inflammation of the lung tissues caused by a rod-shaped bacterium called aeruginosa. Aeruginosa bacterium is considered a very dangerous, antibiotic resistant type that is very difficult to treat because it affects already critically ill patients. Patients with severely compromised immune system, having previously undergone antibiotic or steroid therapy, underweight and malnourished, [...]

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Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia: Causes and Remedies

Cryptogenic organizing pneumonia is described as formation of granules in the connective tissue in the distal air spaces of the lungs. The cryptogenic organizing pneumonia can initially start as a mild respiratory illness quickly progressing to a serious lung disease over a course of a few weeks. The underlying cause for the cryptogenic organizing pneumonia [...]

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