90% of pneumonia deaths are elderly people over 65 years old. My colleague once wrote an article "Doctors Remind 90% of Pneumonia Death: Beware of Community Infection". The article pointed out that according to the report "The Latest Treatment Guide for Pneumonia" jointly published by Taiwan Province Chest and Critical Care Medical Association and Taiwan Province Infectious Diseases Medical Association, the annual expenditure of health insurance for treating pneumonia is as high as 65.438+0.33 billion yuan, of which two thirds is paid to the elderly over 65.
In addition, Li Wensheng, director of the Department of Infectious Diseases of Wan Fang Hospital, also said that among the main causes of death of Taipei residents 10, only pneumonia mortality showed an upward trend, with an increase rate of 7.2%, which was close to the growth data of Taiwan. It is worth noting that 90% of pneumonia deaths are caused by the elderly, which shows that pneumonia is a serious threat to the death of the elderly and can be called the killer of the elderly.
More than 80% of pneumonia is caused by bacteria or viruses. The types of pneumonia are very diverse, about 30% are caused by bacteria or molds, such as Streptococcus pneumoniae and Mycoplasma pneumoniae, while more than 50% are caused by influenza virus, and the rest are pneumonia caused by suffocation, allergy or other diseases. Therefore, don't ignore the fatal effect of pneumonia on health. It may be just a small common cold or flu at first, but it will eventually deteriorate into pneumonia due to negligence and delay in medical treatment, and may even lead to respiratory failure, sepsis and even shock death.
The main reason for the rising mortality rate of pneumonia is delayed medical treatment or complications of other diseases. According to the author's colleague's book "A small cold becomes pneumonia! Beware of respiratory failure and intubation before the end of life, pointing out that pneumonia is usually easy to recover as long as it can be treated early, but the main reason for the rising mortality rate is that pneumonia is usually a complication of other diseases, such as influenza complicated with pneumonia. If medical treatment is delayed, it is easy to be infected by bacteria, leading to lung tissue necrosis. In addition, patients with heart failure and advanced cancer are also high-risk groups of pneumonia.
As mentioned above, 90% of the deaths of patients with pneumonia are elderly people over 65 years old, mainly because of the impaired mucociliary function, decreased immunity and various chronic diseases of the elderly, which lead to their own susceptibility to pneumonia. If you have a low awareness of the disease, once you are infected with germs and catch a cold, you will easily be complicated with bacterial pneumonia. Bacteria invade the lungs and form pus and phlegm. After being stuck in the lung for a long time, it will lose the ability of respiratory regulation and then evolve into respiratory failure. Once the human body can't inhale enough oxygen, the blood will return to the heart after being cleaned in the lungs, and then it will be transported to the whole body, which will affect the normal operation of other organs and easily lead to the gradual failure of other important organs and pipelines, which will be life-threatening.
How to prevent pneumonia infection? In order to reduce the infection and spread of pneumonia and prevent and eliminate the epidemic of pneumonia in the community, people, especially the elderly and children, must pay attention to enhancing their immunity, keep the habit of washing their hands frequently, remember to wear a mask when going out to prevent contact with pneumonia virus or droplet infection, and suggest that high-risk infected people be vaccinated with Streptococcus pneumoniae conjugate vaccine. /kloc-from 0/05, the elderly over 65 years old can be vaccinated with streptococcus pneumoniae at public expense, and ordinary people can also pay their own expenses.
In addition, the most important thing is that once there is persistent cough that cannot be relieved, it is best to see a doctor quickly to avoid delaying treatment and avoiding the deterioration of the condition.