Fluid Pneumonia

Pneumonia diagnosis chest x ray.

Fluid pneumonia. Pneumonia fills the lung s alveoli with fluid hindering oxygenation. Chest x ray showing pneumonia your doctor will start by asking about your medical history and doing a physical exam including listening to your lungs with a stethoscope to check for abnormal bubbling or crackling sounds that suggest pneumonia. Pneumonia is a lung infection that can range from mild to so severe that you have to go to the hospital. It happens when an infection causes the air sacs in your lungs your doctor will call them.

Symptoms can be mild or severe and may include a cough with phlegm a slimy substance fever chills and trouble breathing. When a person contracts this infection the airways and air sacs known as alveoli in the lungs become inflamed and get filled with fluid. If pneumonia is suspected your doctor may recommend the following tests. If your pneumonia is severe.

Bacteria in the bloodstream bacteremia. The air sacs may fill up with fluid or pus causing symptoms such as a cough fever chills and trouble breathing. Bacteria that enter the bloodstream from your lungs can spread the infection. Trouble breathing racing or abnormal heart rate continuous coughing or wheezing coughing up mucus that is pink from blood swelling in your feet ankles legs or stomach fatigue loss or appetite nausea or weight loss sudden weight gain confusion.

Pneumonia and fluid in the lungs. Pneumonia is an infection that inflames your lungs air sacs alveoli. Culturing can also help identify what may be. If inflammation is present the.

Even with treatment some people with pneumonia especially those in high risk groups may experience complications including. This test uses a blood sample to confirm an infection. Pneumonia symptoms can vary from so mild you barely notice them to so severe that hospitalization is required. Pneumonia frequently starts as an upper respiratory tract infection that moves into the lower respiratory tract.

During a sputum culture. The alveolus on the left is normal whereas the one on the right is full of fluid from pneumonia. It is a type of pneumonitis lung inflammation. Pneumonia is a condition in which one or both lungs is infected either by a virus bacteria are fungus.

Pneumonia is a bacterial viral or fungal infection of one or both sides of the lungs that causes the air sacs or alveoli of the lungs to fill up with fluid or pus. An x ray helps your doctor look for signs of inflammation in your chest. Pneumonia is a health condition in which one or both the lungs get infected either by a virus a bacterium or a fungus.