Pulmonary chlamydia — Symptoms and effective treatments of chlamydia

Chlamydia as the disease can manifest itself in two forms: sexual and pulmonary. First, as a rule, it happens in adults and affects the organs of the reproductive system, the second is more often diagnosed in children. Pulmonary infection with chlamydia occurs by droplets or contact, as bacteria are microscopic volume. They are transferred, for example, kissing and touching hands or coughing and sneezing. Pulmonary chlamydia is most often found in children of preschool age are in kindergartens, and infants who received the disease from an infected mother.

Chlamydias

A characteristic feature of these microorganisms is that they can not exist independently in the world. Actively proliferate and develop chlamydia can only live human or animal body. Therefore, they become most dangerous when hit in the tissue of internal organs.
There are three types of these bacteria: Chlamydia psittaci, causing ornithosis, Chlamydia pneumoniae, provoking asthma, bronchitis and pneumonia, Chlamydia trachomatis, affecting the urogenital tract and the mucous membrane of the eye. All types exist at the intracellular level and are carried by contact or by airborne droplets.
Due to the microscopic size and virtually no protective shell bacteria are always at the intracellular level. There are parasites in active or passive forms. The first causes the disease with typical symptoms: cough, shortness of breath, vomiting. The second form they take to migrate, moving airborne droplets or by contact between potential victims. Parasitic on the tissues of internal organs, it is possible long latent period of existence, as well as complications such as bronchitis, asthma, pneumonia and pneumonia.

Pulmonary chlamydia

Infection occurs through saliva and other secretions. Settling on items, chlamydia can impress all who actively uses the space. There are cases of full-fledged epidemics in kindergartens and schools. Pulmonary chlamydia is easily transferred from person to person through the air and through touch.
Pulmonary chlamydia – respiratory tract and bronchitis – most actively develops in the child's body. Chlamydia is easy enough win the the respiratory system, blocking the activity of the mucous membrane. This leads to inflammation and dry cough, as the mucus becomes viscous and is practically not expectorated.

Symptoms of pulmonary chlamydia

As has been described above, the disease adversely affects the respiratory system. Therefore, the symptoms are cough, inflammation, dyspnea, increased temperature to 38 degrees. All of the above may indicate the presence of the disease chlamydia in your lungs.
Chlamydia provoke asthma or bronchitis chlamydia – the two most common forms of occurrence of pulmonary chlamydia. At first glance, the above symptoms do not cause people's suspicion, they are trying to cure cough and anti-inflammatory drugs. However, there are cases of progression of the infection and its transition into pneumonia.

Pneumonia develops incrementally. Dry cough disappears, retreats and inflammation in the respiratory system, there is fever and the fever, the cough becomes moist, with abundant discharge of purulent sputum.

Diagnosis of pulmonary chlamydia

To determine the presence of infection is possible only in laboratory conditions. With this aim, the following measures:

• serotyping using the immunofluorescence reactions,
• serotyping using the reaction of complement binding,
• polymerase chain reaction,

Studies take quite a long time, the results of the pair felt after 2 weeks after the procedure.
Also apply the so-called ELISA method, consisting in the analysis of a blood on presence of antibodies specific to particular types of bacteria. Possible detection of chlamydia using microscopy, however, the method does not always give the full result.

Treatment of pulmonary chlamydia

Disease are using antibiotics and expectorant drugs. Tactics of treatment is the doctor. He writes all the necessary recipes. It is not recommended to self-medicate, ignoring or supplementing the position prescribed by the therapist. All you need to take, guided only by the physician.
In pulmonary chlamydia are prescribed antibiotics following groups:

• macrolides produced in drugs "Azithromycin", "Clarithromycin", "Erythromycin»,
• fluoroquinolones such as "Cipro, Levaquin»,
• people older than 14 years are set to "Tetracycline and Doxycycline»,

Usecapsule and tablet antibiotics. Upon completion of the course held test laboratory research. As in the lungs accumulate sticky mucus, then medication combine tools, thinning it and helping expectoration.
There are cases of errors patients made in the treatment of cough. It is not always possible to clearly say what triggered the bronchitis. If the disease is a form of pulmonary chlamydia, the common remedies for bronchitis are not helping, and often do harm and cause complications. Therefore it is extremely important the correct diagnosis.

Prevention

Special preventive measures to avoid infection. Doctors are advised to undergo regular medical examinations for pregnant women, to take measures for disinfection in groups of kindergartens and classes of the schools. At the onset of symptoms such as cough, choking, crying and tears (in infants), you must contact the therapist. It is not recommended to treat cough without prior consultation with the doctor, as the patient does not always accurately represents the nature and causes. Chlamydial bronchitis is much more dangerous than normal, so you should not try to cure it by conventional means.

Disease chlamydia is transmitted pulmonary is just as easy as chlamydia sexual. So be careful and take care of your health.