Pneumococcal+pneumonia

**What is it?** Pnuemonia is a lung disease. Pnuemococcal pneumonia is a certain strain of pneumonia that can cause infection in the upper respiratory tract and can actually spread to the lungs, nervous system, middle ear, and blood. Pnuemococcal pneumonia is mainly found in children under the age of 5, and older individuals above the age of 65. Elderly people have a higher probability then children to get seriously ill or dying from pneumonia **Causes** Pnuemonia can be caused by many different varieties of viruses, bacteria, and even fungi. Pnuemococcal Pnuemonia is ecspecially caused by bacteria named "Streptococcus pneumoniae", also called pnuemococcus. **Spreading & Transmission** Pnuemococcal pnuemonia is mainly caused by contact with infected people. If you come into contact with something somebody who had the disease touched after coughing or anything involving saliva or bacteria in your mouth, and then you touch your mouth or eyes or nose, you have a high chance of contracting the disease. The individual infected does not have to be displaying the symptoms of the disease to have the bacteria that cause it in their throat or body. **Symptoms** Pnoemococcal pnuemonia may begin right away, without signs of symptoms. At first you may deal with a sever shaking chill which is most followed by high fever, cough, shortness of breathing, rapid breathing, and chest pains. Other symptoms may include: nausea, vomiting, tiredness, and muscle aches.
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Doctors will prescribe antibiotics, and the symptoms actually go away after 12-36 hours after consuming the medicine, Streptococcus pnuemonie strands are producing immunity to the anitbiotics though. If you are at risk to getting the diesease, talk to your doctor because you raise your chance of susceptibility if you have abused anitbiotics in the past.
 * Treatment **

If this disease is left untreated, it can start traveling through the bloodstream and damage the heart functions and lung functions, but normally the body will actually discard of the disease itself. If left untreated for a very long amount of time, even death is possible from heart or lung failure.
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