what are the symptoms of pneumonia in older adults?
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['Chest pain when you breathe or cough.', 'Confusion or changes in mental awareness (in adults age 65 and older)', 'Cough, which may produce phlegm.', 'Fatigue.', 'Fever, sweating and shaking chills.', 'Lower than normal body temperature (in adults older than age 65 and people with weak immune systems)', 'Nausea, vomiting or diarrhea.']
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If you have pneumonia, you also may have other symptoms, including nausea (feeling sick to the stomach), vomiting, and diarrhea. Symptoms may vary in certain populations. Newborns and infants may not show any signs of the infection.
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The bottom line. While fever is a common symptom of pneumonia, it's possible to have pneumonia without a fever. This can occur in specific groups, such as young children, older adults, and people with a weakened immune system. Pneumonia can be caused by a variety of germs, some of which are contagious.
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['Chest pain.', 'Dry, nonproductive cough.', 'Dyspnea (shortness of breath, or difficult, labored breathing)', 'Orthopnea (the inability to breathe easily unless the person is sitting up straight or standing erect)']
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['increasing breathlessness – this may only happen when exercising at first, and you may sometimes wake up at night feeling breathless.', 'a persistent chesty cough with phlegm that does not go away.', 'frequent chest infections.', 'persistent wheezing.']
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['Shortness of breath. This symptom typically appears suddenly and always gets worse with exertion.', "Chest pain. You may feel like you're having a heart attack. ... ", 'Cough. The cough may produce bloody or blood-streaked sputum.']
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['Aggravated respiratory disease such as emphysema, bronchitis and asthma.', 'Lung damage, even after symptoms such as coughing or a sore throat disappear.', 'Wheezing, chest pain, dry throat, headache or nausea.', 'Reduced resistance to infections.', 'Increased fatigue.']
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Signs and symptoms of acute, subacute, and chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis may include flu-like illness including fever, chills, muscle or joint pain, or headaches; rales; cough; chronic bronchitis; shortness of breath; anorexia or weight loss; fatigue; fibrosis of the lungs; and clubbing of fingers or toes.
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If your pneumonia is caused by a virus, the symptoms will be flu-like for the first few days: dry cough, fever, headache, shaking chills, extreme fatigue, a poor appetite, and muscle pain and weakness. But then the cough will worsen and produce mucus, fever will spike, and breathing will worsen.
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Some symptoms give important clues about which germ is causing the pneumonia. For example: In older kids and teens, pneumonia due to Mycoplasma (also called walking pneumonia) is very common. It causes a sore throat, headache, and rash in addition to the usual symptoms of pneumonia.
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['a persistent cough.', 'coughing up yellow or green phlegm (thick mucus), or coughing up blood.', 'breathlessness or rapid and shallow breathing.', 'wheezing.', 'a high temperature (fever)', 'a rapid heartbeat.', 'chest pain or tightness.', 'feeling confused and disorientated.']
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Pneumonia symptoms can range between mild and severe depending on the type of pneumonia you have developed. Typical symptoms are a cough, fever, chills and shortness of breath. Other symptoms a person may experience could be sharp chest pain when coughing, headache, excessive sweating, loss of appetite and confusion.
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Pneumonia is an infection of the lungs that can be serious in older adults. In the U.S., nearly 250,000 people are hospitalized with pneumonia each year, and about 50,000 die from the disease, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Seniors are at high risk for complications and death.
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Common symptoms of emphysema include cough, shortness of breath, wheezing, excess sputum production and chest tightness. Pneumonia can cause all of these symptoms plus a high fever, chills and shaking, and chest pain when coughing or breathing.
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Common symptoms include coughing, fever, muscle aches, fatigue, chills and shortness of breath. A pneumonia cough is generally a productive cough, often with yellow or green mucus. The breathing sounds are also different from asthma – Instead of wheezing, a doctor will hear rales and rhonchi with their stethoscope.
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['Shortness of breath, especially during physical activities.', 'Wheezing.', 'Chest tightness.', 'A chronic cough that may produce mucus (sputum) that may be clear, white, yellow or greenish.', 'Frequent respiratory infections.', 'Lack of energy.', 'Unintended weight loss (in later stages)']
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["a cough that doesn't go away after 2 or 3 weeks.", 'a long-standing cough that gets worse.', 'chest infections that keep coming back.', 'coughing up blood.', 'an ache or pain when breathing or coughing.', 'persistent breathlessness.', 'persistent tiredness or lack of energy.']