Is the cure rate of pneumonia in children high?

As our lives become better and better, various diseases continue to stretch out their hateful claws to people, and many people will be plagued by diseases without any precautions. Pneumonia, a respiratory disease, will make people cough constantly and even have symptoms of coughing up blood, which will seriously affect people's normal life.

Moreover, pneumonia affects a wide range of people, including adults and children. However, it is very difficult to treat pneumonia in the elderly. Why is this?

1. The natural ventilation function of the elderly is weakened, and the central cough reflex is reduced, resulting in a weakened airway purification and clearance ability. The elderly are generally accompanied by some chronic diseases, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, bronchiectasis, asthma, pulmonary fibrosis, pneumoconiosis, old tuberculosis, aspiration pneumonia, renal dysfunction, cerebrovascular disease, diabetes, liver disease, etc., which are very likely to be complicated by lower respiratory tract infections.

2. Elderly people are very prone to aspiration pneumonia. Among aspiration pneumonia caused by accidental swallowing, 62% of patients have a clear history of accidental swallowing. Although 38% of patients have no history of sudden accidental swallowing, most of them have repeated small amounts of accidental swallowing when eating, or inhale upper respiratory tract secretions into the lower airway during sleep and fail to purify and clear them. Another cause of aspiration pneumonia is the weakening of swallowing reflex and cough reflex.

3. The body ages and the immunity of the elderly decreases. Some elderly people are malnourished, and some elderly people need to take glucocorticoids and immunosuppressants for a long time due to illness, which is also the reason for low immunity.

The above is an introduction to why it is difficult to treat pneumonia in the elderly. I believe that after reading it, you should have a certain understanding. I hope that friends can pay more attention to the elderly around them. If they are found to have symptoms of pneumonia, they must go to the hospital for treatment in time so that they can recover their health more smoothly.