Hospital-acquired pneumonia is an inflammation of the lungs that will attack a person no earlier than two days after hospitalization. It is understood that he did not bring this infection to the hospital, but picked it up already there.
People who are on mechanical ventilation are most likely to get such pneumonia.
And here's a whole list of risk factors:
- elderly age;
- chronic lung disease;
- impaired consciousness and other head problems;
- choking on stomach contents;
- surgical operations on the organs of the abdomen or chest;
- low acidity of stomach contents;
- recent use of antibiotics (especially broad spectrum antibiotics)
- severe injuries;
- paralysis;
- use of glucocorticoids;
- malnutrition;
- chronic illnesses such as kidney failure, anemia and recent hospitalization in a hospital.
Low acidity in the stomach
What do you think about this point? This happens with different drugs. Including from famotidine, which was swept away from pharmacies under the hot hand. Probably because it was swallowed in the hospital by a very influential grandfather with blond bangs. Journalists trumpeted about my grandfather and everyone found out about famotidine.
How to prevent
Rather, it depends on your healthcare provider. Him in the hospital and ask. You are required to get to the hospital with as few risk factors as possible.
If you swallow antibiotics, hormones, or stomach drugs without asking, you are more likely to get nosocomial pneumonia. Such infections very often end badly.
Well, you need to eat normally. And even before you are going to get to the hospital.
Have you already seen how the blond grandfather with bangs talks about different drugs?
