| umonia is a very serious condition that also has some | | | | organisms that are carried into your lungs. If these |
| very severe complications. Pneumonia is on the third | | | | abscesses are not treated, this can cause |
| place on the list of most frequent causes of | | | | hemorrhage and thus can lead to death. However, |
| hospitalization. More than a million and a half people | | | | there are many antibiotics available that can reduce |
| that suffer from pneumonia are hospitalized every | | | | the risk of death or hemorrhage considerably. |
| year. Although most of the people that suffer from | | | | Another complication of pneumonia can be respiratory |
| pneumonia respond very well to treatment and most | | | | failure. This is actually the main cause of death in |
| of them are cured, the infection caused by pneumonia | | | | patients that suffer from pneumococcal pneumonia. |
| is still a serious problem that can bring a lot of | | | | When your lungs are not able to function properly, the |
| complications. In some countries, pneumonia is the first | | | | quantity of oxygen is reduced and you risk to die. As |
| cause of death because of an infection. | | | | you can see, this is a very serious pneumonia |
| The severity of pneumonia depends on several | | | | complication. Failure to breath can happen from the |
| factors like age, the state of their health or weak | | | | changes in your lungs that occur when you suffer |
| immune system. However, even if you do not suffer | | | | from pneumonia. Failure can also occur when you |
| from a very serious case of pneumonia, there is | | | | loose the needed oxygen from your arteries when |
| always the risk of developing a complication. The most | | | | your pneumonia case results in a very abnormal flow |
| common pneumonia complications are: abscesses, | | | | of the blood. |
| respiratory failure and bacteremia. | | | | The third pneumonia complication is bacteremia, that |
| Abscesses are some of the most dangerous | | | | means bacteria in your blood. This is one of the |
| pneumonia complications. These are cavities filled with | | | | complications that mostly happens in cases of |
| pus that are found in your lungs. Besides the fact that | | | | streptococcus pneumonia. However, there are few |
| they are filled with pus, these pneumonia complications | | | | the cases where this infection actually spreads to |
| also have thick walls and they form when the infection | | | | other locations of your body. Bacteremia is also a very |
| that you have has destroyed your lung tissue. These | | | | common complication of some other gram negative |
| pneumonia complications are the result of a mixture of | | | | microbes, which include haemophilus influenzae. |