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Symptoms of Pneumonia

Pneumonia symptoms can be mild to life threatening. They can include:

• coughing that may produce mucus
• fever
• sweating or chills
• shortness of breath that happens while doing normal activities, or even while resting
• chest pain that’s worse when you breathe or cough
• feelings of tiredness or fatigue
• loss of appetite
• nausea or vomiting
• headaches

Other symptoms can vary according to your age and general health:

• Infants may appear to have no symptoms, but sometimes they may vomit, lack energy, or have trouble drinking or eating.
• Children under 5 years old may have fast breathing or wheezing.
• Older adults may have milder symptoms. They can also experience confusion or a lower-than-normal body temperature.

Diagnosis of Pneumonia

1. Chest X-ray

   An X-ray helps your doctor look for signs of inflammation in your chest. If inflammation is present, the X-ray can also inform your doctor about its location and extent.

2. Blood culture

   This test uses a blood sample to confirm an infection. Culturing can also help identify what may be causing your condition.

3. Sputum culture

   During a sputum culture, a sample of mucus is collected after you’ve coughed deeply. It’s then sent to a lab to be analysed to identify the cause of the infection.

4. Pulse oximetry

   A pulse oximetry measures the amount of oxygen in your blood. A sensor placed on one of your fingers can indicate whether your lungs are moving enough oxygen through your bloodstream.

5. CT scan

   CT scans provide a clearer and more detailed picture of your lungs.

6. Fluid sample

   If your doctor suspects there’s fluid in the pleural space of your chest, they may take a fluid sample using a needle placed between your ribs. This test can help identify the cause of your infection.

7. Bronchoscopy

   A bronchoscopy looks into the airways in your lungs. It does this using a camera on the end of a flexible tube that’s gently guided down your throat and into your lungs.

Your doctor may do this test if your initial symptoms are severe, or if you’re hospitalised and not responding well to antibiotics. If you need help finding a primary care doctor, then check out our FindCare tool here.

Homoeopathy and Neumonia

Homoeopathic medicines to cure neumonia

1. Arsenic Album

   Suffocation. -Difficulty in breathing and shortness of breath.Whistling, wheezing respiration. Unable to lie down, fears suffocation, must sit up. Expectoration is scanty and frothy. Cough with bloody sputum. Darting pain through the upper third of the right lung. Great anxiety and restlessness. Thirst often, but little.

2. Antimonium Tartaricum

   Great rattling of mucus in chest , but very little is expectorated. Bronchial tubes loaded with mucus. Rapid, short, difficult breathing. Feels as if suffocate, must sit up. Coughing and gasping. Expectoration very thick. Face pale, covered with cold sweat, incessant quivering of chin and jaw.

3. Bryonia Album

   Difficult, quick, respiration with stitching pain in chest, worse by movement. Fever accompanied by chills. Cough dry, hard , and painful, the patient holds the chest because of the severe pain during coughing. Cough worse after eating or drinking with vomiting and stitches in chest. Coming into the warm room agg cough. Expectoration of rust coloured streaked with blood. Right lung is affected. Bryonia alba is more suitable for pneumonia of elderly. Mouth and tongue dry with excessive thirst. Tongue coated yellowish, dark, brown. It Tastes bitter. Bryonia alb is more suitable for pneumonia of elderly.

4. IPECAC

   Difficulty in breathing and constriction in the chest. Cough incessant and violent with every breath. Wheezing cough. Bubbling rales. Loose , coarse rattle in chest without expectoration. Sometimes expectoration is bloody. Suffocative cough , child becomes stiff and blue in the face. Continuous nausea. Pneumonia accompanied by persistent nausea and vomiting. Tongue clean, not coated. Pneumonia of children.

5. Natrum Sulphuricum

   Delayed resolution in pneumonia. Cough with thick, ropy, greenish, copious expectoration. Must hold chest when coughing. Springs up in the bed the cough hurts so, holds the painful side. Brown, bitter, coating on tongue.

6. Phosphorus

   Pneumonia of the left lower lung. Pneumonia with oppression, worse lying on left side, worse least motion. Congestion of lungs. Tight suffocative breathing, worse cough. Hard, dry, racking cough. Sputa rusty, blood –coloured or purulent.

Benefits of Homoeopathic Treatment

Homoeopathic treatment for Pneumoniais individualised, with remedies selected based on the specific symptoms and constitution of the person. A qualified homoeopathic practitioner will consider factors such as the type and location of pain, associated symptoms, and the person's overall health.

It's important to note that homoeopathic remedies should be used under the guidance of a trained homoeopath. In severe cases or if complications arise, conventional medical intervention may still be necessary.

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