Pneumonia Sentence Examples

They said you had double pneumonia, or something like that.

I've seen you knocked to your knees with pneumonia, grief and a sick husband, but you always come right back up fighting.

Tubercular pneumonia may thus be looked upon as comparable to pneumonia excited by any other specific agent.

The pneumonia is usually lobular, the onset marked by rigors, with difficult and hurried breathing, cough and expectoration.

He says he thinks he has a cold, but the doctor told me he could get pneumonia real easy.

The immediate cause of his death was an attack of pneumonia, but the disease was aggravated by the excitement attending his sudden change in circumstances and the incessant demands of office seekers.

He had never been of a robust constitution, and after a little more than a week's illness from pneumonia following influenza, duke of he died at Sandringham.

Kennel cough can progress into pneumonia if left untreated.

Some patients who become infected with the swine flu develop pneumonia.

Pneumonia, the doctor said, confirming Alex's fears.

Newborns who acquire CMV during the birth process or shortly after birth may develop pneumonia, hepatitis, or various blood disorders.

Fevers are primarily caused by viral or bacterial infections, such as pneumonia or influenza.

Bacterial pneumonia develops after the child inhales or aspirates pathogens.

Pneumonia is not usually passed from one person to another.

When Patrick Swayze checked himself into the hospital with pneumonia, sources say the lung infection was a complication caused by his chemotherapy treatment.

The preliminary report from the Los Angeles county coroner's office is revealing that Murphy died from complications from pneumonia, anemia and prescription drug toxicity.

Neilsen was hospitalized in November of 2010 with pneumonia, and died on the 28th from complications.

As the condition worsens, so does the risk of other complications from Alzheimer's disease such as pneumonia.

Acids and alkalis can burn the esophagus if they are vomited, and petroleum products can be inhaled into the lungs during vomiting, resulting in pneumonia.

Infants born with rubella may already show signs of heart disease, retarded growth, hearing loss, blood disorders, vision problems, or pneumonia.

Fevers are caused in most cases by viral or bacterial infections, such as otitis media (ear infection), upper respiratory infection, pharyngitis (throat infection), pneumonia, chickenpox, and urinary tract infection.

Parents should be aware that children with sickle cell anemia are also at increased risk of infection, especially from the Streptococcus pneumonia and H. influenzae bacteria.

African Americans with HIV infection are less likely to be on antiretroviral therapy, less likely to receive prophylaxis for Pneumocystis pneumonia, and less likely to be receiving protease inhibitors than other persons with HIV.

Sometimes, pieces can be aspirated into the lungs, and even though breathing returns to normal, wheezing, chest pain, persistent cough, and pneumonia can develop within a few days due to the foreign body in the lung.

When spasticity limits activity for long periods, it can cause additional medical problems such as sleep disturbances, pressure sores, and pneumonia.

In that age group, it is the leading cause of bacterial meningitis, pneumonia, joint and bone infections, and throat inflammations.

Bronchitis, bronchiolitis, and pneumonia are frequent in CF.

Scarlet fever is caused by group A streptococcal bacteria (S. pyogenes), highly toxic microbes that can also cause strep throat, wound or skin infections, pneumonia, and serious kidney infections.

Occasionally more serious lower respiratory diseases, such as pneumonia or bronchitis, may occur.

Hospitalization is usually required for severe pneumonia in infants and for keratoconjunctivitis (to prevent blindness).

Children with FA are considered high-risk for flu and pneumonia.

The children should also periodically receive pneumococcal pneumonia shots as recommended by their doctors.

When the stomach contents moves into the esophagus, there is the possibility that this material will be aspirated into the windpipe, which can cause asthma, pneumonia, and possibly suffocation or sudden death.

Some children aspirate the stomach contents, which can cause pneumonia or even sudden death.

Sometimes, chest x rays are ordered to check for pneumonia or lung damage due to aspiration of stomach contents.

Chest x rays may help indicate the presence and extent of such infections as pneumonia or tuberculosis.

Patent ductus arteriosus-quick tiring, slow growth, susceptibility to pneumonia, and rapid breathing.

The most common complications are ear infection and diarrhea, although more serious complications can include pneumonia, meningitis, or encephalitis.

Bacterial infections, such as ear infections, sinus infections, and pneumonia are common, especially in children.

Other viral infections may also strike the patient, including croup, bronchitis, laryngitis, or viral pneumonia.

In addition, the mother's illness may progress to pneumonia.

They cause a wide variety of infections including scarlet fever, tonsillitis, and pneumonia.

As early as three months of age, however, the SCID child begins to suffer from mouth infections (thrush), chronic diarrhea, otitis media, and pulmonary infections, including pneumocystis pneumonia.

Left untreated, however, it may develop into a serious disease, including osteomyelitis (bone infection), septic arthritis (joint infection), or pneumonia.

X rays may also show the presence of a secondary bacterial infection, such as pneumonia.

Opportunistic bacterial infections that take advantage of a weakened respiratory system may cause ear, sinus, and throat infections or pneumonia.

Klebsiella and Proteus sometimes cause urinary tract infections; pneumonia occurs generally in immunocompromised hosts or alcoholics, and ear and sinus infections in immunocompromised hosts.

When the bacteria spread to the lungs and bloodstream, serious illness, including pneumonia and meningitis, can result.

Long periods of bed rest can also cause a buildup of fluid in the lungs or an infection in the lungs (pneumonia).

Physicians may prescribe these drugs to treat eye infections, pneumonia, gonorrhea, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, urinary tract infections, certain bacteria that could be used in biological weapons, and other infections caused by bacteria.

Parents should not use talcum powder because of the risk of pneumonia.

Hepatitis, pneumonia, and other dangerous complications can arise, but the likelihood of cat-scratch disease posing a serious threat to health is very small.

This vaccine also may worsen illnesses that involve the lungs, such as bronchitis or pneumonia.

About 25 percent of all children with this infection also have pneumonia.

Immunizations for pneumonia and infectious diseases are part of treatment along with prompt treatment for sickle cell crises and infections of any kind.

Parents should check with the child's doctor before scheduling immunizations, flu, or pneumonia vaccines.

Chest CT examinations are used to assess complications from infectious diseases, such as pneumonia and tuberculosis, inflammation of the airways, and birth defects.

Once it is clear that no pneumonia, ear infection, strep throat, or other common childhood illness is present, the practitioner usually feels comfortable waiting to see if the characteristic rash of roseola begins.

In rare cases, a persistent sore throat may point to more serious conditions, such as rheumatic fever or pneumonia.

The most common opportunistic infection in children with XHIM is a lung disease known as Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP).

The most common telltale symptom, however, is PCP; in fact, the frequency of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in children with hyper-IgM syndrome was a useful clue to geneticists searching for the mutation that causes the disorder.

The child has been diagnosed with pneumonia more than twice within the past year.

Streptococci, meningococci, and Haemophilus influenzae, organisms that cause diseases such as otitis media, sinusitis, pneumonia, meningitis, osteomyelitis, septic arthritis, and sepsis, all make capsules.

Ten to 20 percent of infants infected with chlamydia develop pneumonia during the first six months of life.

Acute bronchitis, like any upper airway inflammatory process, can increase a child's likelihood of developing pneumonia.

A cough that does not go away may be a sign of another problem such as asthma or pneumonia.

When coughing is suppressed, the mucus accumulates in the plugged airways and can become a breeding ground for pneumonia bacteria.

Immunizations against certain types of pneumonia (as well as influenza) are an important preventative measure for the very young or those children with chronic diseases.

Pneumonia is an infection of the lungs that can be caused by nearly any class of organism known to cause human infections, including bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites.

Pneumonia can develop gradually in children after exposure to the causative organism, or it can develop quickly after another illness, reducing the lungs' ability to receive and distribute oxygen.

The onset, duration, and severity of pneumonia depend upon the type of infective organism invading the body and the response of the child's immune system in fighting the infection.

Respiratory distress represents 20 percent of all admissions of children to hospitals, and pneumonia is the underlying cause of most of these admissions.

To understand pneumonia, it is important to understand the basic anatomic features of the respiratory system.

Organisms that cause pneumonia, then, are usually prevented from entering the lungs by virtue of these host defenses.

Aspiration pneumonia is a type of pneumonia in which something is aspirated from the upper airway into the lungs.

The invading organism causing pneumonia provokes an immune response in the lungs that causes inflammation of the lung tissue (pneumonitis), a condition that actually makes the lung environment more ideal for infection.

Consolidation, a feature of bacterial pneumonia, occurs when the alveoli, which are normally hollow air spaces within the lung, instead become solid due to quantities of fluid and debris.

These types of pneumonia primarily infect the walls of the alveoli and the stroma of the lung.

Bacterial and viral pneumonia occur mostly in winter months, while mycoplasma pneumonia is more common in summer and fall.

Viral pneumonia stems primarily from inhaling infected droplets from the upper airway into the lungs.

In neonates, pneumonia may result from colonization of the infant's nasopharynx by organisms that were in the birth canal at the time of delivery.

In addition to exposure to sufficient quantities of causative organisms, certain other conditions can increase the risk of pneumonia.

The epidemic of immmunodeficiency virus (HIV), the virus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), has resulted in a huge increase in the incidence of pneumonia.

Because AIDS results in immune system suppression, individuals with AIDS are highly susceptible to all kinds of pneumonia, including some previously rare parasitic types that would not cause illness in someone with a normal immune system.

Pneumonia is also the most common fatal infection acquired by already hospitalized patients.

Even in nonfatal cases, pneumonia is a significant economic burden on the healthcare system.

One study estimates that U.S. workers who develop pneumonia cost employers five times as much in health care as the average worker.

The bacterial and viral organisms that cause pneumonia, however, can be transmitted through airborne or direct contact.

Every year in the United States, two million people of all ages develop pneumonia, including 4 percent of all the children in the country.

It is the sixth most common disease leading to death and the fourth leading cause of death in the elderly; 40,000 to 70,000 people die from pneumonia each year.

The incidence of pneumonia in children younger than one year of age is 35 to 40 per 1,000; 30 to 35 per 1,000 children ages two to four; and 15 per 1,000 children between ages five and nine.

Fewer than 10 children in 1,000 over age nine are reported to develop pneumonia.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that the number of deaths from pneumonia in the United States declined between 2001 and 2004.

Pneumonia in older children and young adults is often caused by the bacteria-like Mycoplasma pneumoniae, the cause of pneumonia that is often called "walking" pneumonia.

Pneumocystis carinii causes pneumonia in immunosuppressed individuals such as patients being treated with chemotherapy or people with AIDS.

Pneumonia is suspected in a child who has symptoms such as fever, cough, chest pain, difficulty breathing (shortness of breath or dyspnea), and an increased number of breaths per minute (respiration).

In severe pneumonia, mucus plugs and the accumulation of fluid together decrease the efficiency of gas exchange in the lung, resulting in signs of oxygen deprivation.

If pneumonia is present, a rapid rate of respiration may be noted; tachypnea is defined as a respiratory rate over 50 respirations per minute in infants younger than one year.

X-ray examination of the chest may reveal certain abnormal changes associated with pneumonia.

Localized shadows obscuring areas of the lung may indicate a bacterial pneumonia, while streaky or patchy changes in the x-ray film may indicate viral or mycoplasma pneumonia.

Penicillin was, as of 2004, still the first choice for treating children with pneumonia unless the child is known to be penicillin-resistant.

Oral amoxicillin or cephalosporins are often administered first in treating milder cases of pneumococcal pneumonia in children younger than age five, though they are not used in newborns.

Another newer drug known as ertapenem (Invanz) is reported to be effective in treating bacterial pneumonia.

Generally, there are lower mortality rates from pneumonia in the United States than elsewhere in the world.

Streptococcus pneumoniae, the most common organism causing pneumonia, has a significantly lower death rate of about 5 percent.

In children, cystic fibrosis, aspiration problems, immunodeficiencies, and congenital or acquired lung malformation may increase the risk of pneumonia from S. pneumoniae.

Recovery following pneumonia with Mycoplasma pneumoniae is nearly 100 percent.

Pneumocystis carinii-An organism that causes pneumonia in immunodeficient individuals, such as people with AIDS.

Immunodeficient individuals are at higher risk for infection with Pneumocystis carinii and are frequently put on a regular preventive drug regimen of trimethoprim sulfa and/or inhaled pentamidine to avoid pneumocystis pneumonia.

Pneumonia in a child can produce severe symptoms that can be frightening to both the child and parents, particularly when breathing is compromised or cyanosis is noted.

When symptoms seem to suggest pneumonia, immediate attention allows early treatment so that breathing difficulties can be corrected quickly and drug therapy begun in order to destroy the causative organism.

Others develop pneumonia, diarrhea, dry or cracked lips, jaundice, or an inflammation of the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord (meningitis).

Pneumonia is common following near drowning and often develops within the first 24 hours.

Most children have had at least one episode of pneumonia caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae.

These illnesses include pneumonia and inflammations of the liver (hepatitis), brain (encephalitis), esophagus (esophagitis), large intestine (colitis), and retina of the eye (retinitis).

Infants born prematurely who become CMV infected during birth have a greater chance of complications, including pneumonia, hepatitis, decreased blood platelets.

It can be passed to the infant during delivery and can cause ophthalmia neonatorum (an eye infection) within the first month of life and pneumonia within one to three months of age.

These items always cause symptoms (difficulty swallowing and spitting up saliva, for instance) and may elude detection for some time while the child is being treated for asthma or recurring pneumonia.

During 1979 to 1981, rare types of pneumonia, cancer, and other illnesses were reported by physicians in Los Angeles and New York among a number of male patients who had sex with other men.

Co-infection-Concurrent infection of a cell or organism with two microorganisms (pneumonia caused by coinfection with a cytomegalovirus and streptococcus).

It is the primary cause of childhood meningitis and the second most common cause of childhood pneumonia.

Patients with inflammation of the heart membrane, pneumonia, or arthritis may need surgical treatment to drain infected fluid from the chest cavity or inflamed joints.

In addition to slow growth, children with PDA may be more susceptible to infections such as colds, pneumonia, and a rare but potentially life threatening infection of the heart called endocarditis.

They include frequent ear and sinus infections, pneumonia, and gastroenteritis.

Medical treatment may be necessary for recurrent pneumonia and other respiratory infections.

They are also more vulnerable to colds, flu, pneumonia, and other respiratory problems.

When this happens, air enters the gastrointestinal system, causing the bowels to distend, and mucus is breathed into the lungs causing aspiration pneumonia and breathing problems.

Aspiration pneumonia can develop from fluid breathed into the lungs.

However, surgery cannot always be performed immediately because of prematurity, the presence of other birth defects, or complications from aspiration pneumonia.

Another complicating factor during this phase is the development of pneumonia from infection with another agent.

Aspiration pneumonia, an infection of the respiratory system caused by inhalation of the contents of the digestive tract, may also develop.

The procedure is done as soon as possible; however, prematurity, the presence of other birth defects, or complications of aspiration pneumonia may delay surgery.

The most vulnerable persons are children under the age of 15 years and those who develop pneumonia or myocarditis.

Newborns who are exposed to GBS, however, can develop serious complications such as meningitis, pneumonia, blindness, deafness, and death is possible.

Secondary bacterial infection may lead to middle ear infection (otitis media), bronchitis, pneumonia, sinus infection, or strep throat.

Occasionally a cold will lead to a secondary bacterial infection that causes strep throat, bronchitis, pneumonia, sinus infection, or a middle ear infection.

Ear infections, meningitis, and pneumonia are common in boys with WAS.

Such complications include meningitis, brain abscesses, pneumonia and lung abscesses, and heart infections, among others.

Preemies are more likely to contract pneumonia, sepsis, and meningitis.

After he recovered from the stabbing, the Doctor said he had scar tissue and would be susceptible to pneumonia in the injured lung.

God knows you probably saved my life, at least from exposure or pneumonia.

Oh yes, she had pneumonia.

Milder cases of malarial fever are apt to become dangerous from the complications of dysentery, bronchitis or pneumonia.

This reduction of the temperature, carried to an undesirable extreme, is the reason why the man who has copiously consumed spirits "to keep out the cold" is often visited with pneumonia.

This action renders it of the utmost value in bronchitis and pneumonia with associated bronchitis.

In pneumonia and other acute disease, where the patient is liable to sudden collapse, a hypodermic injection of strychnine will often save the patient's life.

Great care should be taken in using dimethyl and diethyl sulphates, as the respiratory organs are affected by the vapours, leading to severe attacks of pneumonia.

Even what are known as common colds are probably due chiefly to microbic infection aided by a chill, just as in the case of pneumonia.

Jackson's left arm was successfully amputated but he developed pneumonia and he died at Guinea Station on 10th May, 1863.

Pneumocystis carinii was identified by immunofluorescence in only one (placebo) of 73 nasopharyngeal aspirates from children with pneumonia.

Together with the labored breathing, this could indicate the onset of pneumonia.

Pregnant women who get chickenpox or shingles have a higher than normal risk of developing pneumonia.

In 1922 he survived an episode of severe pneumonia, but the following year he developed acute cholecystitis and peritonitis.

The dog was diagnosed with smoke inhalation induced pneumonia and has two damaged corneas.

In 1961 she had double pneumonia during a New York nightclub engagement.

In fact, he nearly died there as he contracted double pneumonia for his troubles.

Patients with a recent history of pulmonary infiltrates or pneumonia may be at higher risk.

Patients were considered for the study if they had given written informed consent and had clinical evidence of pneumonia confirmed on X-ray.

However, bed sores, pneumonia and possibly increased laxity of tendons may result from restraint on a mat.

Etiology of aspiration pneumonia The organisms involved in aspiration pneumonia are generally those colonizing the upper oropharynx and gut.

Mortality rates in patients aged less than 65 years with a primary diagnosis of community acquired pneumonia.

Captain Fitch caught pneumonia, from which he died on 1 November 1918, at American Lake, Washington, USA.

It also infects adults causing pneumonia (which is often fatal in elderly subjects ).

To prevent pneumonia there is plenty of air movement over the ewes but no drafts.

Knowing the symptoms of community-acquired pneumonia could also minimize ill health, says Help the Aged.

The optimal treatment duration has not been established in ventilator-associated pneumonia.

Appropriate statistical tests were made to compare the incidence of nosocomial pneumonia in the two groups.

A small percentage of elderly people with lobar pneumonia die very quickly.

Causes of enzootic pneumonia Enzootic pneumonia in calves is a multifactorial disease.

There are vaccines that can help protect against pneumococcal pneumonia - the most common form of pneumonia.

Two days later the patient was severely unwell with aspiration pneumonia.

Vaccines are now available which will provide effective control of the most common bacterial and viral causes of calf pneumonia.

For example, a person suffering with pneumococcal pneumonia may have chest pain, cough, purulent sputum, and fever.

During labor, gastric stasis, associated with the use of opioid analgesics, may increase the mother's risk of inhalation pneumonia.

Extract I remember when I first started to school I caught whooping cough so I ended up with bronchitis and double pneumonia.

Typhoid, pneumonia, tuberculosis, measles and scarlatina, and influenza are the commonest illnesses.

Repeat episodes of pneumonia were defined by the presence of new pathogens on sputum culture.

During labor, gastric stasis, associated with the use of opioid analgesics, may increase the mother 's risk of inhalation pneumonia.

Does the use of heat and moisture exchangers rather than heated humidifiers affect the incidence of ventilator associated pneumonia?

Chris was unable to run the marathon that he had trained eleven months for, because he came down with pneumonia two weeks before the race.

The symptoms are readily apparent, but they can be confused with other conditions including pneumonia.

The kitten needs to see a vet immediately because the infection could be progressing into pneumonia.

Because of the side effects of what came to be marketed as heroin, most notably respiratory depression, it was seen as an effective treatment for pneumonia and tuberculosis.

Lung issues may not be the first problems that come to mind with alcoholism but it is highly associated with pneumonia and a lung disease called acute respiratory distress syndrome that can be fatal.

Pneumonia is another one of the side effects of heroin that most people may not associate with using this drug.

Alba's spent much of her childhood suffering from various illnesses, including several bouts of pneumonia, asthma, appendicitis, tonsil cysts, and on two occasions, a collapsed lung.

Charles Nelson Reilly - Match Game panelist; passed away from complications from pneumonia on May 25 at age 76.

Actor Patrick Swayze checked himself into a California hospital for pneumonia.

So far, there are no reports of further complications and Swayze was just "under observation" to ensure the pneumonia didn't progress and make him increasingly ill.

This infection alone is neither particularly painful nor serious, but it does weaken the animal's immune system and leaves the dog more vulnerable to serious and potentially fatal secondary infections such as pneumonia or bronchitis.

The good news is that, although there isn't a quick-fix cure for kennel cough, there are steps you can take to ease the symptoms and keep the infection from progressing into a serious case of pneumonia.

Once this happens, your dog is subject to deeper bronchial infections and life-threatening pneumonia.

Tube feedings may be required in some patients with failure to thrive, aspiration pneumonia, difficulty swallowing, or an inability to ingest adequate calories orally to maintain nutritional status or promote growth.

Symptoms of chlamydial pneumonia are a repetitive cough and rapid breathing.

Promoters also claim that MMS is capable of curing ailments like the flu, the common cold, pneumonia, warts, sore throats, and dental abscesses.

Eucalyptus has many qualities including the ability to relieve asthma, coughs, sinusitis, pneumonia and bronchitis.

A regular seasonal flu vaccine and a pneumonia vaccine are also recommended.

In some cases, the infection spreads rapidly, involving large areas of skin and/or leading to a blood infection or pneumonia.

Each of the diseases are very serious, and children who contract measles can develop pneumonia, which is a potentially fatal combination.

H1N1 causes flu like symptoms and can lead to pneumonia like condition if left untreated.

Inhalations of the gas are of service in pneumonia, bronchitis, heart disease, asthma, angina and other conditions accompanied by cyanosis and dyspnoea.

If the white cells be required, as in local suppurating abscess, general septicaemia, acute pneumonia, &c., there is an active proliferation of the myelocytes to form the polymorpho-nuclear leucocytes, so that we have in this condition a leucoblastic transformation of the fatty marrow.

Pneumonia of the croupous type has been proved to be, as a rule, a germ disease, the nature of the germ varying according to circumstances.

Thus pneumonia is now known to he due to the diplococcus pneumoniae, and yet its invasion occurs so frequently after a chill that it is almost impossible not to look upon chill and pneumonia as cause and effect.

The structural changes occurring in the bronchi in catarrhal bronchitis have also been ascertained, and, as in the case of pneumonia, have been shown to be frequently excited by the presence of a microphyte.

The principal causes of death, both among the white and coloured inhabitants, are diseases of the lungs - including miners' phthisis and pneumonia - diarrhoea, dysentery and enteric. The death-rate among young children is very high.