Pneumonia

Pneumonia

Subject: Health

Context: Researchers point that pneumonia-related to Covid-19 is different and more damaging than common pneumonia caused by bacteria or viruses like influenza.

Concept:

• Unlike rapid infection in large regions of the lungs in normal cases of pneumonia, the virus causing Covid-19 targets multiple small areas of the lungs.
• It then hijacks the lungs’ own immune cells and uses them to spread across the lung over a period of many days or even weeks.
• Infection slowly moves across the lung and leaves damage in its wake and continuously fuels the fever, low blood pressure, and damage to the kidneys, brain, heart, and other organs in patients.
• Long course of the disease is the major cause of it being more dangerous.
• Researchers pointed critical targets to treat SARS Covid-19 as the immune cells: macrophages (MACROPHAGES – Optimize IAS) and T cells (T cell immunity – Optimize IAS).

Pneumonia:

• WHO says pneumonia is the single largest cause of death in children worldwide despite it being preventable and curable.
• Pneumonia can be caused by viruses, bacteria or fungi. Streptococcus pneumonia is the most common cause of bacterial pneumonia in children.
• Pneumonia can be prevented by immunization, adequate nutrition and by addressing environmental factors.
• Pneumonia can be treated with antibiotics.
• Symptoms of Pneumonia include high fever and chills, cough with phlegm, physical weakness and a feeling of being unwell, shortness of breath and rapid breathing, and a racing pulse.