PNEUMONIA

Pneumonia is inflammation in your lungs caused by an infection. When you have pneumonia your airways and lungs have infection caused by germs such as bacteria, viruses, parasites or fungi. Your airways catch most germs in the mucus, that lie in your trachea, bronchi and bronchioles.  Hair like cilia lying in the tubes constantly push the mucus and germs out of your airways. Sometimes germs can pass although mucus and cilia and enter in your alveoli. Normally cells of the immune system attack this germs, which keep them from making you sick. However is your immune system is weaken  pneumonia causing germs can overwhelm your immune system  and begin to multiply. The inflammation causes your alveoli to fill with fluid which makes obstacle for the oxygen that can not rich to your capillaries

If you have lobar pneumonia that means that one lobe(piece) of your lungs is affected. If bronchopneumonia is your diagnosis then many areas of both lungs are affected.

Pneumonia can cause the following symptoms :

-difficult y breathing

-chest pain

-coughing

-fever and chills

-confusion

-headache

-muscle pain

-fatigue.