From what I understand it is pneumonia. Lungs fill with water. I almost died from it at 17. It was a close call. I caught a flu which brought on the pneumonia.
I thought this (Coronavirus) was the one where x-rays showed it was like shredded glass in the lungs. Am I wrong?
I’ve been getting the annual flu shot and I got the pneumonia vaccine about 7 or 8 years ago. Last winter I got a cold, then bronchitis. I had two rounds of different antibiotics and steroids. At about the 11th week of the bronchitis, it seemed to turn to quickly turn to pneumonia and got me really scared. Breathing became real hard, gurgling on inhale and exhale, and my blood O2 was not great, but still around 90. I actually began to think “this is how it ends.”
Another round of a different antibiotic and steroids. Finally it quit around week 12. They didn’t run any tests to see if it was pneumonia, but that was a scary incident.
Incidentally, at the beginning, the doctor said the AVERAGE time to get over the bronchitis was 12 weeks. My whole episode lasted exactly 12 weeks.
It gave me a whole new appreciation for what pneumonia (or pneumonia-like) diseases can do to your lungs.
In some of the early videos it showed people collapsing, and then blood on the ground near their heads. Might have been fake videos, but in some/many cases, the final event is coughing up a lot of blood from the destroyed lung tissue.
not exactly pneumonia. the pneumonia triggers something called ARDS or adult respiratory distress syndrome. The kings become very stiff and difficult to ventilate. it takes an ICU a ventilator and a lot of skill to get someone through it and the mortality rate is considerable. ARDS can be triggered by many things in including viral and bacterial pneumonias