An inflammation of the small airways (bronchioles) and alveoli. Pneumonia usually occurs after infection with a bacterium or virus, often due to a cold or flu.
Treatment necessary
Pneumonia is associated with much coughing, phlegm, high fever, breathlessness and a feeling of malaise. When your immune system is not sufficiently able to adequately fight this infection, treatment is needed.
The trachea divides into two airways (main bronchi), which ramify to smaller and smaller bronchi. The smallest airways – the bronchioles – have a diameter of about one millimeter, they end in a kind of grape bunches (called alveoli or air sacs). Every human has about 1 million alveoli that are the size of a football coverage. (more…)
