what is pneumonia?

Answer 1

Inflammation of the lungs, in which the air sacs in the lungs,
the alveoli,fill with fluid and white blood cells. Pneumonia is
classified according to the location of the inflamnation.
Lobar Pneumonia is usually confinded to one section of the lung, double pneumonia is a condition that affects both lungs, and bronchial pneumomia is concentrated in and about the
bronchi, the airways that connect the windpipe and the air cells of the lungs.

Walking pneumonia is descriptive of a realtively mild condition that may not be redily identified as a lung infection.
Pneumonia may be caused by bacteria,virus,fungi,or anyother microorganisms.

Any foreign matter, such as a chemical,food,or vomit, that is inhaled may carry an agent that causes infection. It may be brought on when the bodf's defenses are strained from fighting the ravages of a cold, influenza, emphysema, asthma,
or that type of illness,

Baterial pneumonia may be treated with antibiotics, when very serious cases hospital care may be necessary, and it hurts like hell to breath!

Answer 2

Pneumonia is a serious infection and/or inflammation of your lungs. The air sacs in the lungs fill with pus and other liquid. Oxygen has trouble reaching your blood. If there is too little oxygen in your blood, your body cells can't work properly. Because of this and spreading infection through the body pneumonia can cause death.


Pneumonia can have over 30 different causes.
Until 1936, pneumonia was the No.1 cause of death in the U.S. Since then, the use of antibiotics brought it under control. In 2003, pneumonia and influenza combined ranked as the seventh leading cause of death.1

Pneumonia affects your lungs in two ways. Lobar pneumonia affects a section (lobe) of a lung. Bronchial pneumonia (or bronchopneumonia) affects patches throughout both lungs.

Answer 3

My son had pneumonia and thats how I first came face to face with it. It is a lung infection which can be caused by different types of germs and most commonly viruses.

Answer 4

Pneumonia is an illness, or infection that makes the alveoli in your lungs become inflamed and flooded with fluid.

Answer 5

A respiratory disease. Gone untreated fluid will begin filling the lungs in effect drowning the victim.

Answer 6

Its a cold that turns into a disease it can be fatal if not treated it clogs up your sinuses with junk you cant breath and sometimes it turn into pneuonia because the secretions travel to your lungs.

Answer 7

definition provided by http://www.m-w.com

: a disease of the lungs characterized especially by inflammation and consolidation of lung tissue followed by resolution and by fever, chills, cough, and difficulty in breathing and that is caused especially by infection

Answer 8

it is a fluid in the lungs. without treatment you can dye. see a doctor .

Answer 9

liquid in the lungs

Answer 10

It's when you get water in your lungs. You can die from it.