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Walking pneumonia, or mycoplasmal pneumoniae, is an illness that
everyone can get, because it spreads through the air very easy if
a person infected with the bacteria that causes it sneezes or coughs.
Walking pneumonia is a mild form of the disease that used to kill
thousands before the discovery of antibiotics and the pneumonia
vaccination, but it can be tricky because most of the people that
have it confuse it with influenza, and they use the wrong treatment
for it, thus allowing it to advance.
Children under the age of 15 are at a higher risk to get this illness,
but everybody can have it. It is known that it quickly spreads in
schools or army barracks, because in the institutions mentioned
above people stay close together and the microorganisms that cause
it enter the bodies of many.
Its first symptom is a mild sore throat that gets worse as days
pass. Then a dry cough shows up. As its name suggests, walking pneumonia
does not make the people that have it stay in bed, its effects are
not severe so the patient can tend to his/her normal activities,
but this is not recommended if he/she works in an environment with
many people. Also, one infected with walking pneumonia will feel
a general state of fatigue all the time.
The main problem is that its symptoms are the same with the cold
or influenza symptoms. After the coughing a mild fever may also
appear, accompanied by a running nose, exactly the same when you
have a cold. The first clue that you do not have a simple cold is
that the coughing cannot be cured with the regular medication, because
the bacteria that cause pneumonia can only be treated with antibiotics.
Furthermore, although you took your regular cough medicine, it gets
worse and worse until you take antibiotics.
This can make walking pneumonia a tricky, miserable disease, but
once it is discovered it can very easily be cured with just a few
antibiotics. In a few days it will be gone, but the hard part is
to realize that you have pneumonia and not just a cold. Remembering
the symptoms and facts mentioned above can spare you of the trouble
of confusing walking pneumonia with influenza, but the best thing
to do if you suspect that you have this illness is to consult your
doctor as soon as you see that your cough gets worse although you
are taking cough medicine.
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Article Source: EzineArticles.com:
Understanding Walking Pneumonia Symptoms
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