Symptoms of Chronic Pneumonia
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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The clinic is characterized by repeated (several times a year) inflammatory processes in the lungs and depends on the volume and prevalence of the process, the degree of damage to the bronchi. Of the common symptoms are signs of intoxication: malaise, pallor, "shadows" under the eyes, a decrease in appetite. With extensive lesions, flattening of the thoracic, zapping in the sternum or keeled bulging may develop. During an exacerbation - an increase in body temperature, moderate and short.
The most persistent symptoms of chronic pneumonia are cough, sputum and persistent wheezing in the lungs. With exacerbations cough moist "productive", with the withdrawal of mucopurulent or purulent sputum. Wet medium and small bubbling rales are heard constantly in the affected areas. They persist even during remission, dry wheezing can also be heard.
The most frequent localization of the process is the lower lobe of the left lung (more often the basal group of segments). Somewhat less often the changes are localized in the lower and middle lobe of the right lung. Rare are the lesions separately of the middle lobe, reed segments or both. Lesions of the upper lobes of the lungs and their segments with chronic pneumonia are not observed.
The physical development of children with chronic pneumonia usually corresponds to age. Signs of intoxication in the period of remission are often absent.
Permanent symptoms of chronic pneumonia include cough, sputum and persistent wheezing in the lungs. The severity of clinical manifestations depends on the localization and extent of the lesion.
The most vivid clinical picture is observed with lesion of the left lower lobe, especially in combination with lesion of tongue segments, less bright - with lesion of the lower lobe of the right lung. The lesion of the middle lobe, as well as the ligulate segments, usually proceeds little.
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