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Right lung infection
My mom is suffering from right lung infection/pneumonia... She is in her 5th stage of CKD and on dialysis... What's the procedure to treat pneumonia
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Dr. Gummadi Anish Reddy
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8 yrs exp
Bangalore
Usually CKD patients are more prone to lung complications than normal people and most of the times they have pleural effusions and secondary pneumonias. Kindly share the X-ray film of the patient to see if it’s actually pneumonia or if any other issue maybe present.
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Consult a pulmonologist for the same at the earliest
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The procedure to treat any pneumonia is to give antibiotics specific to the organism causing the infection . However, when there is no access to the specimen / sputum then procedures like bronchoscopy helps to obtain such specimens for microscopy and culture -sensitivity tests . If such a procedure is not possible then empirical broad spectrum antibiotics are given to the patient and the response is gauged by blood tests , serial xrays and clinical response of the patient to the same .
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Treatment of pneumonia is mainly antibiotics and oxygen support. Depending on the severity of pneumonia, she would require hospital admission.
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Dr. Sarthak Rastogi
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Mumbai
A patient with CKD and dialysis and having a pneumonia should be treated according to the severity. Depending upon severity she may need antibiotics in the hospital ward or ICU.
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