Fluid Pneumonia

Symptoms can be mild or severe and may include a cough with phlegm a slimy substance fever chills and trouble breathing.

Fluid pneumonia. An x ray helps your doctor look for signs of inflammation in your chest. When this occurs the airways in the lungs become inflamed and are then filled with fluid. 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. The alveolus on the left is normal whereas the one on the right is full of fluid from pneumonia.

What are the symptoms of pneumonia. 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 diagnosis chest x ray. Pneumonia is an infection that inflames your lungs air sacs alveoli.

Bacteria that enter the bloodstream from your lungs can spread the infection. Culturing can also help identify what may be. Bacteria in the bloodstream bacteremia. Pneumonia is a condition in which one or both lungs is infected either by a virus bacteria are fungus.

When a person contracts this infection the airways and air sacs known as alveoli in the lungs become inflamed and get filled with fluid. Fluid in the lungs is one of the most common complications of pneumonia but there are also other ones including blood poisoning and difficulty breathing. Pneumonia frequently starts as an upper respiratory tract infection that moves into the lower respiratory tract. 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.

If your pneumonia is severe. Even with treatment some people with pneumonia especially those in high risk groups may experience complications including. Pneumonia is a health condition in which one or both the lungs get infected either by a virus a bacterium or a fungus. Pneumonia fills the lung s alveoli with fluid hindering oxygenation.

During a sputum culture. Pneumonia and fluid in the lungs. If inflammation is present the. Pneumonia symptoms can vary from so mild you barely notice them to so severe that hospitalization is required.

This test uses a blood sample to confirm an infection. It happens when an infection causes the air sacs in your lungs your doctor will call them. If pneumonia is suspected your doctor may recommend the following tests.