A Watchful Eye On Walking Pneumonia Symptoms

by Ethan Armitage

Walking pneumonia is a condition caused by mycoplasma bacterium. This condition is very easily spread in the air by coughing or sneezing and can affect any men or woman.

This form of pneumonia is a mild form, easily treated but at the same time dangerous if aggravated and left untreated because its symptoms are similar with those of flu and people may not recognize it and follow an inappropriate treatment. Before the discovery of antibiotics, this condition was deadly.

Any person can encounter this condition but a greater risk is presented by children under the age of 15. This affliction can easily spread through air and in crowded places like schools or army barracks it can affect many people.

The first symptom shown by this condition is a sore throat that worsens every day. This is followed by a cough. The walking pneumonia is a mild form of pneumonia that doesn't require for the afflicted person to stay in bed so people can return to their daily duties. However, it is not recommended that infected people attend to crowded places because the infection can be spread to others. A person that suffers from walking pneumonia will have a general state of fatigue.

A great problem is represented by the similarity between the symptoms of this condition and those of a cold or flu. As in the case of cold, symptoms that may appear very soon after the coughing are mild fever and running nose. Coughing won't be stopped by regular medication, even more; it will worsen until treated with antibiotics.

A few antibiotics will easily cure the walking pneumonia in only a matter of days, but until it is discovered, it is a tricky and miserable condition with symptoms similar to a cold. By knowing all the things told above about symptoms and facts, it should be easier to make the difference between a simple flu or a cold and a more complicated infection like a walking pneumonia. However, the best thing a person can do when he or she encounters the symptoms and suspects this disease, is to consult a doctor as soon as possible.

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