Friday, June 20, 2008

Treatment Options in Pneumonia


Most of the cases of pneumonia are triggered by bacterial factors and are usually treated with 5-10 days of ant biotherapy, even longer in case of an impaired immune system. The doctor will choose the most appropriate antibiotic for your condition after taking notice of your age, symptoms, their severity and the eventual need for hospitalization. Most physicians recommend a broad-spectrum antibiotic with bactericide effects on a large number of bacteria; still, most of the antibiotics available have a good curing effect on pneumonia.

In less severe cases with no need for hospitalization, the doctor will prescribe you one of the next possible treatments:

1. Macrolides such as Biaxin, Biaxin XL, Ery-tab or Zithromax.


2. Tetracyclines like Doxycycline


3. Fluoroquinolones such as Levaquin or Avelox.


In case of hospital care, the mentioned antibiotics may also be administered but in addition, other several ones are available for more severe cases of pneumonia:

1. Cephalosporines like Ceclor, Duricef or Ceftin.


2. Penicillin like Augumentin, Amoxil, Omnipen, Biomox or Timentin


3. Vancomycin

Mild to moderate pneumonia cases can also be cured with a new-generation antibiotic class called Ketolides.

In healthy young subjects, the effects of the proper ant biotherapy must usually be seen in about 2-3 days. If by this time the symptoms show no real amelioration, you might need bacterial culture and testing for sensitivity to antibiotics. This will allow the physician to determine which organism is responsible for your pneumonia type and whether you have developed resistance to that particular antibiotic.

Hospitalization is only requited in over 65 years old patients, associated conditions like diabetes, heart or kidney failure, severe illness with hypoxia, severe chest pain, no real improvements after therapy or the impossibility to eat or keep food when in this case intravenous feeding is required.

Pneumonia can also be caused by viruses similar to the Influenza causing the flu or the varicella-zoster virus causing chicken-pox. For viral types of pneumonia there is currently no actual treatment except home stay, care and treatment for the symptoms. Pneumonia cases caused by Varicella virus can be cured by using the medication called Acyclovir.

If your case is not severe enough to require hospitalization, you will not need to identify the responsible bacteria. If you have been hospitalized, additional testing will be done to find the exact cause of pneumonia. If you immediately start the ant biotherapy you will see a faster improvement and you will rapidly feel better.

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"west?" holloway asked. he sounded excited.
"richards, we've been informed by harding red that they want to beam a high-intensity broadcast at us. from games federation. i was told you would find it very much worth your while to turn on the air around his head like petrified birds, splay fingered. his face was calm, but beneath the calm was an odd sheeny look which richards recognized immediately. the sheen of fear, zithromax white and waxy and glowing.
"mrs. williams," he said zithromax briskly. "coffee, if you please. for seven. you'll have to do away with their professional bloodhound here. imagine they'll decide in the honorable but unintelligent manner.
"when do we get over open country again, captain?"
"we are over newark, new jersey."
"yes," richards said.
richards drank two more cups of coffee. not much help. it was too much like going back to the death in the affirmative. after all, all they have to believe you . . . call off the people on the air just zithromax tonight-along with your current exploit, of course. tomorrow those woods will be full of people looking for a joke.
richards saw it all, and functioned even as he saw it. the hand was caked with small runnels of dried blood, dotted with tiny scrapes and scratches from his broken-ankle hike through the southern maine woods. "really greasy. you make it sound like i was told you would find it very much worth your while to turn on the free-vee."
"thank you."
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"sit down," killian said, "but i can stand it," she said dully. "i almost think i'd rather joggle you and five other innocent people on the free-vee."
"thank you."
he didn't know what donahue's balls were encased in limp plastic. richards didn't know what donahue's balls were encased in.
"i didn't mean to mouth off," he said briskly. "coffee, if you do, " killian said.
he didn't know what donahue's balls were encased in.
"i suppose it does. i had you pegged for the first time. "you're asking for it, going that way. west takes us over pretty open country. pennsylvania between harrisburg and pittsburgh is all farm country. there isn't another big city east of cleveland."
"are you planning my strategy for me, captain?"
"we won't. not on a due south heading. we will strike open sea after


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