About Community Acquired Pneumonia
Community Acquired Pneumonia affects all ages, but common extreme of age.
Most cases are spread by droplet infection.
Community Acquired Pneumonia may occur in previously healthy individuals
Predisposing condition
Extreme of age
Upper respiratory tract infection
Cigrate smoking
Alcohol
Corticosteroid therapy
Congenital and acquired immune deficiency
Sickle cell disease
Post splenectomy
Indoor air pollution
Cystic fibrosis
COPD
Bronchiectasis
Causative organism
Streptococcus pneumonia
H.Influenza
Stap aures
Klebs
Type of presenting of CAP
Classical
- Sudden onset
- High fever
- Productive cough
- Rusty sputum
- Blood ting
Clinical feature
Systemic feature
- Acute illness
- Sudden onset of fever
- Rigor
- Chill
- Shivering
- Malaise
- Delerium
- Appetite loss
- Headache
- High fever.
Pulmonary symptom
Cough
Mucopurulent sputum
Rusty sputum
Haemoptysis
Chest pain breathlessness
Extrapulmonary symptom
Myalgia
Arthralgia
Myocarditis
Pericarditis
Headache
Abdominal pain
Diarrhoea
Vomiting
Skin rashes
Labial heroes simplex reactivation.
Investigation
CBC-WBC increase
LFT- increase bilirubin
Urea electrolyte
Arterial blood gases
Sputum- Alveolar macrophages
Chest x-ray- opacity over lung
Management
- Antibiotics
- Antimicrobial therapy
- O² inhalation
- Fluide imbalance
- IV fluids
The selection of homoeopathic remedies based on symptom similarities and doses according to the Susceptibility of patient.
Don't take homoeopathic medicine without any prescription / without any advise of physician.
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