Disease mycosis in the lungs. Fungal infection of the lungs

The fungus in the lungs is quite rare and is often confused with other serious ones. lung diseases. This is serious and dangerous disease requiring urgent treatment. In running forms, it calls severe consequences and causes deaths. Fungal lung disease is difficult to recognize because it causes identical symptoms to tuberculosis and pneumonia, but is treated with completely different medicines.

Causes of the disease

fungal infection lung disease is an intractable disease and it is caused by the fact that the lungs were affected by yeast fungi of the genus Candida. They are permanent and safe healthy person, the inhabitants of our skin. Candida fungi become dangerous when immunity is reduced. The reasons for the decrease in immunity are permanent stressful situations, antibiotics and beriberi. Mycosis of the lungs and upper respiratory tract dangerous for everyone, the fungus affects both adults and children. Increased Risk infected in sick people:

• HIV infection;
• diseases endocrine system;
• AIDS;
• cancerous tumors;
• tuberculosis;
• diabetes mellitus;
• serious chronic diseases.

Symptoms of the disease

Fungal diseases of the lungs are initially manifested by the usual dry cough, as with a cold. When coughing, sputum is produced with mucus patches. After the fungus damages the tissues of the lungs, there is an increase in body temperature, difficulty breathing. The patient has shortness of breath and an increase in the amount of sputum. Bloody thread-like inclusions are observed in the sputum. The patient suffers from pain when inhaling.

Fungal infection of the lungs occurs in people with sharply reduced protective reactions of the body.

In the secondary stages of the disease, abscesses and thickenings of the tares are observed in the lungs. When the lungs are affected by a fungus, changes begin in the bronchi, and the ribs are deformed. The patient complains of increased pain. On his skin, the formation of fistulous passages and the release of pus become visible. In it, as in sputum, doctors detect fungal spores during analysis. Fungi that affect the lungs are located in the lower part of one of them. The disease develops for a long time and is constantly progressing.

Pulmonary mycoses have their own clear signs- this is a deterioration in the patient's condition after taking antibiotics and the absence of wheezing in the lungs.

The symptoms of the disease at first are difficult to distinguish from the common cold, therefore fungal infection lungs are left without proper treatment until the patient has bright severe symptoms in the form of subcutaneous infiltrates, fistulous passages, depletion of the body, development of cachexia and intoxication. Advanced cases of this disease lead to death.

Symptoms of aspergillosis

Mold fungal lesions of the lungs also occur, they are ill with HIV-infected and very weakened people, the disease develops when the lungs have already been affected by tuberculosis, sarcoidosis. The causative agents of the disease are fungi, mold derivatives. Symptoms manifest themselves, as well as with candidiasis. Mold in the lungs causes weakness and apathy, anorexia, sweating. It differs in the upper, right-sided location in the lungs.

Diagnosis of the fungus in the lungs

For accurate and correct diagnosis of the disease, a lung puncture is performed through the skin.

For selection effective drugs It is important that the disease is diagnosed as early as possible. The analysis of sputum secreted during coughing or necrotic masses from fistulous passages is carried out. To confirm the diagnosis, a lung puncture is made through the skin. Under a microscope, spores of the fungus that caused the disease become visible. This type of analysis will help determine the genus of fungi. A test for bacterial culture pus from fistulous passages. This is how the presence of fungi is determined and the effective medicine to cure them. The use of x-ray examination is not recommended, as it is ineffective in the early stages of the disease and because of it the presence of chronic pneumonia, abscess, swelling or tuberculosis is misdiagnosed. On late stages diseases when examining the picture, changes in the ribs, tares and bronchial tree. Aspergillosis in the respiratory tract is diagnosed, as is pulmonary candidiasis.

Treatment of the disease

Treatment of the fungus takes a long time. A set of antimycotic agents and antibiotics is used. When the disease progressed chronic form They are used by injection. Antibiotics are selected by acting on the grown colonies of fungi from the samples taken. Inhalations are added to achieve better results, immunostimulants are prescribed, which help the body produce antibodies that fight fungal infection. Appoint vitamin complexes and a special low-carbohydrate diet. Doctors select the optimal treatment, especially when the disease is detected in a child.

Drug therapy

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No prescription traditional medicine will not cure lung fungus on its own. Treatment folk remedies carried out only together with the reception medicines.

Radish with honey helps to effectively resist infections.

Recipes of traditional medicine will raise the patient's immunity by reducing the intake of immunostimulants. The presence of vitamin products in these recipes helps to saturate the body with vitamins and increase its resistance. Herbs of thyme, adonis, calendula flowers and elderberry are used. They make decoctions and syrups. Pine honey is consumed before meals with water. Aloe gruel with the addition of honey, badger fat and sweet wine helps to get rid of severe cough and support affected lungs. Use it before going to bed, drink tea. The radish helps to kill the fungus that affects the lungs. Radish juice, to which honey and vodka are added, helps to treat cough. Take a spoonful 2 times a day. Radish compresses are also used, which are finely grated and wrapped in gauze, applied to the lung area. Thyme, chamomile and fennel help cure cough.

Most often infectious diseases respiratory tract are caused by viruses. These microorganisms are usually easily destroyed by our immune system, so SARS do not even require specific treatment.

More dangerous are bacterial infections- purulent bronchitis and pneumonia. Without antibacterial treatment in this case it is difficult to do. However, fungal infections are the most severe. This disease is commonly referred to as mycosis of the lungs.

Mycosis of the lungs is a group of various diseases that are united by the fact that they are caused by pathogenic fungi.

There are several principles for separating these diseases. First of all, mycoses are divided into primary and secondary. The first group includes diseases that first appeared in the unchanged lung. Secondary mycoses occur against the background of another disease, such as tuberculosis, pneumonia, and so on.

Mycoses of the lungs are:

• Isolated - only the tissue of the respiratory organ is affected.
• Combined - simultaneous inflammation in other organs - the trachea, liver, and so on.

According to the origin of the microbe, they are distinguished:

1. Endogenous. In this case, the fungus enters the lung from another organ, where it is normally present, but when immunity is reduced, it causes illness.
2. Exogenous. Usually caused by absolutely pathogenic fungi that enter the lungs from the external environment.

Another division of mycoses involves the isolation of a specific pathogen, that is, the immediate cause.

Causes

Speaking about the mechanisms of development of mycosis of the lung, it is worth saying that for the appearance of the disease, not only the pathogen (cause) itself is necessary, but also additional predisposing factors.

The latter include:

1. Diabetes mellitus - with this disease, the immune system and blood flow in the lung suffer, so it is easy to develop fungal diseases.
2. Air poisoning. In this state, it breaks protective system integumentary epithelium lungs, so fungi easily cause inflammation.


3. AIDS and congenital immunodeficiency - these diseases lead to oppression cellular immunity. Lymphocytes cannot adequately protect the tissues of the organ, so fungi actively multiply.
4. Radiotherapy - in treatment lung cancer often applied radiation therapy. In addition to the tumor, this method of action also suppresses normal immune cells lungs and can become a factor in the development of serious diseases.
5. Antibiotic treatment - in the treatment of pneumonia, chronic bronchitis or others inflammatory diseases antibacterial agents are used. They kill not only pathogenic, but also beneficial bacteria for our body. Under these conditions, fungi are activated.
6. Systemic use of hormonal anti-inflammatory drugs and cytostatics. Drugs depress the immune system and contribute to the development of fungal inflammation.

These conditions are factors in the development of the disease. Pathogenic fungi are the direct cause of mycosis. Most often the disease is caused by:

• Aspergillus.
• Candida.
• Actinomycetes.
• Coccidiums.
• Histoplasms.
• Cryptococcus.

Each of these microbes is unique, but mycoses also have common features.

Symptoms

Any fungal lung disease is easily confused with bacterial pneumonia. The manifestations of the disease are divided into general (intoxication syndrome) and local (catarrhal syndrome).

If a doctor suspects a fungus in the lungs, symptoms of intoxication are present quite often:

• Temperature increase. Fever develops gradually and rarely immediately has high temperature numbers, as with pneumonia.
• Weakness, fatigue, nausea - usual symptoms intoxication.
• Headache occurs due to fever and intoxication syndrome.
• Paleness of the skin, cyanosis - cyanosis skin.
• In severe cases, respiratory and cardiovascular failure is detected.
• Violations of the acid-base balance.

Local manifestations vary depending on the pathogen. Fungus of the lungs, symptoms certain diseases:

1. Aspergillosis, mold: cough, hemoptysis, dry or moist rales in a separate zone of the lung. With the decay of aspergilloma, sputum or cough with abundant pus may appear.
2. Candidiasis: profuse cough with whitish sputum, often simultaneous fungal infection of the pharynx, tongue, trachea and bronchi.
3. Actinomycosis: cough with greenish sputum sharp pain in the lung. Damage to the intercostal nerves and ganglia.
4. Coccidioidosis: often a primary disseminated process, bilateral rales, cough, severe intoxication, extracellular foci of infection.
5. Cryptococcosis: subacute course, reminiscent of the tuberculosis clinic. Without additional methods diagnosis is difficult to diagnose.

The listed symptoms of individual diseases are not always found. Diagnostic methods help to deal with the problem.

Diagnostics

Fungal lesions of the lungs are diagnosed using laboratory and instrumental techniques.

Instrumental studies that help detect fungal lung diseases:

1. Radiography is the simplest and most common method of diagnosing the disease. In the lung pattern, foci of darkening are noticeable, which have specific features for each type of infection.
2. CT scan - The best way detect fungal infection of the lungs. This method has the highest reliability and high resolution. Allows you to take pictures in layers different levels lung.
3. Bronchoscopy - the introduction of the camera into the lumen of the bronchus. During the manipulation, not only the respiratory tract is visible, but also a piece of tissue is taken for microbiological examination.

Mycosis of the lungs help to suspect and laboratory diagnostic methods:

• In a general blood test, the usual signs of inflammation are found.
• Biochemical analysis of blood and general analysis urine do not have specific changes.
• The key place is occupied by microbiological diagnostics. Sputum culture or bronchoscopy material allows you to accurately identify the pathogen.
• For the diagnosis of certain diseases, PCR techniques and serological studies are used.

Once the diagnosis has been made and the causative agent has been identified, the physician may begin specific treatment.

Treatment

The mistake of adherents of self-treatment is the use of exclusively symptomatic, folk or antibacterial agents in the treatment of mycosis. The use of antibiotics will only harm the patient with this disease. To eliminate the cause of the disease, specific antifungal drugs are used:

1. Aspergillosis is treated with levorin, amphotericin B, amphoglucosamine. If the focus of infection is organized in the form of aspergilloma, then it must be removed surgically using lung resection.
2. Candidal lesions are treated exclusively conservatively with levorin and amphotericin.
3. Actinomycosis of the lungs has a specific treatment. For this, sulfonamides, penicillin, streptomycin and other drugs are used.
4. Coccidioidosis is treated with amphotericin, amphoglucamine, ketoconazole.
5. Histoplasmosis is most often treated with amphoglucamine.

If a specific pathogen could not be identified, the most widely used antifungal drugs are used.

Symptomatic treatment is carried out using the following means:

• Antipyretic - with an increase in temperature of more than 38.5 degrees.
• Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs - for chest pain.
• Bronchodilators - in the presence of an obstructive component and shortness of breath.
• Mucolytics - to thin sputum and relieve coughing.
• Antitussives - with dry, unproductive cough without sputum.

An individual treatment plan in each case is selected by the attending physician.

Folk remedies

Among our population, methods are extremely common folk treatment. This method of therapy is acceptable in the absence of contraindications and a threat to the life of the patient. With fungal infections, folk remedies can be used, but only as a symptomatic method of treatment and together with drugs prescribed by a doctor.

The following recipes help to alleviate the condition:

1. Collection of black elderberry, fennel and angelica. Facilitates general state and helps to expel mucus.
2. hemlock, Walnut, celandine and colchicum assembled. Relieve intoxication, expand the bronchi, improve immunity.
3. Nettle decoction helps with canidemia. It is taken orally one glass three times a day.

Apply the above and more folk recipes only after consultation with a specialist.

Prevention

There are no specific measures for the prevention of fungal diseases of the lungs. Unfortunately, no vaccines have been developed against these microorganisms.

To prevent infection you need:

1. Treat respiratory diseases only after a full diagnosis.
2. Apply antibiotics in short courses and targeted against a specific microbe.
3. In the treatment of corticosteroids and cytostatics, regularly conduct x-rays of the lungs.
4. Do not skip fluorography 1 time in 2 years.
5. Timely treat chronic respiratory diseases.
6. Eat right, is on fresh air to avoid hypothermia.

Simple rules of prevention help to avoid a serious illness.

A fungus in the lungs, the symptoms of which are often confused with tuberculosis, and the treatment is quite long and difficult, is caused by the microorganism Candida. Also, the cause of the disease can be the defeat of moniliasis, oidiomycosis and other diseases. In this case, the disease can cause serious complications for the respiratory system. This disease requires immediate medical attention.

Causes

IN modern society such an ailment as it is difficult to surprise. Fungus can live anywhere human body(skin, nails, mucous membranes). Different age categories are susceptible to the fungus, even babies can suffer from white plaque in the mouth. As a rule, it is not difficult to remove illnesses of this kind, but there is such a form of the disease as a fungal infection of the lungs: here, too, the fungus takes on such a form that even a healthy athlete can turn into a helpless person in a matter of days.

Fungi that cause lung damage, Candida, constantly live on the skin and mucous membranes of a person and even perform useful functions, but when weakened immune system occupy a place on the affected area and begin to develop. Depression, prolonged use of antibiotics, and a lack of vitamins in the body can cause a weakening of the immune system and, accordingly, the development and reproduction of the fungus.

Given the list of reasons that can cause the colonization of the fungus in the lungs, it can be argued that anyone can experience this disease, 100% protection does not exist.

However, there are groups of people for whom the risk of disease increases due to the characteristics of the body.

These include patients suffering from lesions of the endocrine system, HIV-infected and people with AIDS, as well as those diagnosed with diabetes mellitus (candida love glucose, and increased sugar is fertile ground for them). People with chronic diseases are also at risk.

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Symptoms of the disease

The onset of the disease can be confused with bronchial pneumonia. Moreover, symptoms such as loss of appetite, fever (with pneumonia, the temperature is usually higher) and weakness are characteristic of both diseases. In addition, it may be accompanied by a cough with blood impurities and increased sweating in the area of ​​fungus colonization, that is, at the level of the lungs. And the fungus settles, as a rule, in the lower part of the lung.

The main difference between these two diseases is that with pulmonary candidiasis it is impossible to detect wheezing in the bronchi when listening. And when the diagnosis is wrong, and the patient is prescribed antibiotics, he only gets worse (after all, it is often the use of antibiotics that provokes the disease). The disease is so dangerous that its prolonged course can lead to death.

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Treatment of the disease

Fungal diseases of the lungs can be divided into 3 stages. At the first stage, it is possible to identify the disease only with the help of sputum and blood tests (increase in leukocytes). It should be noted that radiography at this stage is impractical, since early stages such manipulation is unable to show changes in the lungs.

IN Lately pulmonary candida began to be recognized using skin test and actinolysate (immunodiagnostic reaction).

In the second and third stages, the diagnosis of the disease for a specialist is not difficult. Treatment for late stages already causes some difficulties, especially since in the third stage the patient has a serious complication - a fistula.

The second stage is characterized by the appearance of infiltrates (accumulation in tissues lung cells causing compaction and an increase in the volume of the affected area). That is, the more the patient delays with treatment, the stronger the disease manifests itself and the more dangerous its manifestations.

After diagnosing and identifying the disease, the doctor prescribes, first of all, antifungal (antimycotic) drugs that can eliminate the cause of the disease. Moreover, a whole range of medicines is needed for treatment. Along with antifungal drugs (for example, Amphotericin B, Diflucan, Itracon, Orungal), immunostimulating drugs are prescribed for treatment.

To complete a comprehensive approach to treatment, many experts recommend including inhalation in therapy. sodium salts levorin, which help prevent the risk of complications. If such therapy does not show positive dynamics, or does not completely relieve the symptoms of the disease, the patient is prescribed a blood transfusion.

Fungal lesions of the lungs sometimes even require surgical intervention, but the operation is local and is indicated only in advanced cases.

The patient's stay is more expedient in a hospital, since such a disease requires constant monitoring by the attending physician. Deterioration of the patient's condition may require emergency measures, including artificial ventilation lungs.

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Folk methods of struggle

It’s worth mentioning right away that fungal diseases of the lungs are not treated with folk remedies! The only thing they can help herbal preparations and infusions, increase immunity, the decrease of which contributes to the development of the disease. Vitamins from traditional medicine will help to quickly cope with the disease and help drug therapy destroy the fungus in the lungs.

Elderberry, thyme, adonis, calendula can be attributed to the number of means of struggle from the folk first-aid kit. Both the syrup and the decoction of these herbs have the same power. The patient is also recommended to use pine honey before meals, which should be washed down with plenty of water.

Helps to stop the growth of a fungal infection infusion of mature aloe, crushed to a pulp. It is necessary to add honey, badger fat to aloe and pour dessert Cahors. It is recommended to use this remedy at night with tea. The resulting infusion improves the general condition of the patient, increases the effectiveness of therapy.

The well-known "healer" - radish - is also considered a good remedy helping to get rid of the fungus in the lungs. It can be used in the form of compresses (finely grate, warm and put on the lung area, previously wrapped in gauze). You can also make an infusion from radish: it vegetable juice mix with honey and vodka and take a teaspoon daily.

To alleviate some symptoms of the disease, in particular, cough, herbal rubbing from chamomile, thyme, fennel and other herbs is capable.

It is popularly believed that a simple blackberry can overcome many lung diseases, including fungal infections. Not only does she have excellent antiseptic properties, so the berries of the plant improve sputum discharge. And blackberry leaves, more precisely, an infusion or decoction based on them, can be used orally.

Pneumomycosis is an inflammatory process that occurs in the tissues of the lungs with the active reproduction of fungal microflora. The disease is quite rare, because most often the causative agent of pneumonia in children and adults are bacteria and viruses. The non-standard course of the disease, the complexity of diagnosis and the ineffectiveness of antibiotics widely used in the treatment of the bacterial form make this species pneumonia is one of the most dangerous.

Fungal diseases are widespread throughout the world. A large percentage of the population throughout life is faced with various manifestations of the activity of pathogenic and conditionally pathogenic fungal species.

Provoking factors against which a fungus of the lungs can develop are:

• a sharp decrease in immunity resulting from hypothermia, after surgical intervention or past illness, as well as on the background age-related changes in organism;
• persistent disorders in the immune system (AIDS);
• reception antibacterial drugs.

The most complex lung lesions develop against the background of antibiotic therapy. Having a detrimental effect on wide range bacteria, the antibiotic greatly reduces the natural immunity of the body and at the same time is completely useless in the fight against the fungus. That is why the uncontrolled intake of antibacterial drugs is unacceptable, and if pneumonia is suspected, it is extremely important to determine which infection caused the formation of purulent, caseous, calcified or fanulomatous foci of inflammation.

Causative agents of pneumomycosis

Most often, mycotic pneumonia occurs against the background of damage by fungi belonging to the genus Candida. This is a group of microorganisms whose activity can cause: vaginal candidiasis, damage to the skin, sinuses, tonsils, as well as joints and tissues.

Less commonly, lung damage is caused by fungi:

• Histoplasma capsulatum;
• Trichomycetes;
• Actinomyces bovis;
• Blastomyces dermatitidis;
• Coccidioides immitis;
• Aspergillus fumigatus;

Combined infection with several types of microorganisms is also possible. Such forms of mycotic pneumonia are more severe, more often complicated and become chronic.

Although diseases caused by different pathogens have their own characteristics of the course, most pneumomycoses have a similar clinical picture, which without comprehensive survey easily confused with bronchopneumonia or atypical pneumonia of viral or bacterial origin.

Symptoms of a fungal infection of the lungs

The peculiarity of pneumomycosis is that, due to mild symptoms, the infection remains unnoticed for a long time. As a result, the infection has time to cause large-scale tissue damage and spread in the body.

In most cases, fungal pneumonia begins with common symptoms, characteristic for inflammatory process lower respiratory tract. May be observed:

• cough;
• dyspnea;
• weakness and fatigue;
• chills and fever.

As a rule, the symptoms are not constant and can appear periodically, which delays the patient's visit to the doctor and the correct diagnosis.

With a sharp increase in the number of exogenous fungi, an acute process may occur, which is characterized by more pronounced manifestations of the disease, as well as the phenomenon of intoxication of the body with the waste products of pathogenic microorganisms.

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The fungal origin of pneumonia can be indicated by sputum with purulent contents and streaks of blood (such symptoms appear when abscesses rupture).

Often, doctors neglect the need to conduct tests for the causative agent of the disease and prescribe antibiotic therapy, guided only by the results of the examination and X-ray examination. In this case, the treatment will be ineffective, the patient's condition will worsen while taking antibacterial drugs, and against the background of reduced immunity, complications will begin to develop: abscesses, granulomas, exudative or fibrinous pleurisy, cyst formation, lung atelectasis, up to a septic state.

If you suspect pneumonia, be sure to ask your doctor for a complete examination. Remember, pneumonia can occur without fever and severe coughing. But without proper timely treatment This disease leads to serious destructive changes V lung tissues and sometimes even death.

Diagnosis of fungal pneumonia

If the first symptoms of the disease occur, an adult should consult a therapist, and the child should be urgently shown to a pediatrician. The doctor will initial inspection, auscultates the presence or absence of characteristic wheezing in the lungs that occurs during the inflammatory process.

At the first contact, it is important to inform the specialist about the transferred and chronic diseases, the fact of taking antibacterial drugs in the last few months, as well as describe in as much detail as possible the symptoms that caused the appeal.

If pneumonia is suspected, prescribe:

• x-ray examination chest(not fluorography, namely X-ray);
• general blood and urine tests;
• sputum examination: microscopic, cultural, serological or molecular genetic;
• study of lavage and pleural fluids;
• study of lung tissue aspirate.

The presence and nature of the inflammatory process in the lung tissues can be judged by the result x-ray examination. Laboratory diagnostics It is aimed primarily at identifying the pathogen, because the choice of the method of treatment and drugs that can effectively deal with pathogenic organisms depends on this.

Treatment Methods

With timely detection of pneumomycosis, it is effective conservative treatment, thanks to integrated approach, including a modern antimycotic, bronchodilator, immunostimulants and multivitamin preparations. With an active response of the body to such a treatment plan, it is possible to predict with a high degree of probability complete cure without any complications.

If the disease was diagnosed at an advanced stage, there is a lack of a proper response to antifungal therapy or the process has worsened due to misdiagnosis and long-term antibiotic therapy may be required surgical intervention directed to washing pleural cavity or removal of infected lesions.

One of the most dangerous diseases is mycosis of the lungs, the symptoms of this disease appear very clearly. Mycosis occurs as a result of the fact that pathogenic fungi affect the body, the disease can be primary and secondary. Primary mycosis occurs on its own, that is, the disease is not provoked by other pulmonary diseases. Secondary, as a rule, joins those lung diseases that the person already has. Secondary mycosis can result from antibiotic therapy against tuberculosis and diseases affecting the lungs.

The danger of infection with mycosis

Mycosis of the lungs often appears along with damage to other organs, but the disease can be isolated. There are exogenous and endogenous pulmonary mycoses. Aspergillosis, candidiasis, actinomycosis are classified as endogenous, in this case the causative agent is a saprophyte living in the human body. Histoplasmosis and coccidioidomycosis are exogenous mycoses. Infection occurs due to direct contact with the patient, as well as by inhalation of dust with pathogenic microorganisms.

The fungi that a person comes into contact with are in most cases safe and fairly harmless saprophytes, but some of them, when favorable conditions appear, cause infection of body tissues - this problem can lead to severe allergies.

Treatment of mycosis of the lungs should be carried out in a timely manner. The disease may result from diabetes, the toxic state in which the body is on this moment. Mycosis is also preceded by diseases closely related to impaired functioning of the immune system. It is possible that this disease will appear as a result of treatment with drugs to suppress the immune system. Mycosis lung symptoms it is not difficult to recognize, the main thing is not to ignore them in the hope that they will disappear on their own. Pulmonary mycoses can also be found in young children who have been prescribed antibiotic treatment by a doctor: during the period of treatment with these drugs, the functioning of the intestinal microflora is disrupted in a child.

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Characteristic signs of the disease

Mycosis of the lungs, like any other disease, has characteristic symptoms, they are pronounced.

The first symptom is a cough with sputum, with this disease the patient has pain in the chest, there is shortness of breath and hemoptysis. When listening to the chest, wheezing is heard. There is an increase in temperature to 39-40°C. As for the color of the skin, it changes significantly, the patient's skin becomes very pale (in some cases it acquires a bluish color). In the sputum of an infected person, bloody blotches can be seen. If the disease becomes acute stage, the patient has such unpleasant symptom, How respiratory failure; toxicosis and violation of the acid-base balance in the body also take place.

To confirm the disease and prescribe appropriate treatment, a thorough examination of the body is required. Diagnosis of mycosis of the lungs, first of all, involves mycological analysis of sputum, which is supplemented by serological tests. In order to identify histoplasmosis, a histology and biopsy of a smear-imprint should be done. In addition to these research methods, it is required to carry out x-ray examination, which will show the features of lung damage.

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Diagnostics and prevention

When diagnosing professional mycosis, the doctor takes into account certain working conditions of the patient, in addition to this, it is revealed whether anyone in the environment has mycosis. To avoid such unpleasant dangerous disease children and adults need preventive measures. To ensure prevention against fungal infections, you need to see a doctor, he can prescribe antifungal antibiotics. Usually the doctor prescribes them if the immune system has weakened as a result of diseases. To prevent mycosis, you must follow all the rules of personal hygiene, avoiding contact with fungi, dust.

When working in a dusty environment, you should use a respirator, it must be worn when in contact with hazardous disinfectants. If any objects or materials contain fungi, they must be destroyed immediately. For pulmonary mycoses, the doctor may prescribe antibiotic treatment and antifungal drugs may require a blood transfusion. Once the diagnosis is confirmed, treatment should begin as soon as possible.

If you delay or do not treat mycosis at all, the infection will spread throughout the body, it is worth emphasizing that it can affect the lining of the brain. In this regard, treatment should be taken with the utmost seriousness.