Laryngitis

In the larynx the organ of the phonation is located, that is to say the vocal chords; but to be the road that follow the air to arrive until the lungs through the understood space among the two vocal chords (named glottis), they will also be two the predominant symptoms in the illnesses of this area: the disfonía (hoarseness) and the disnes (you asphyxiate).

The illnesses that affect laryngeal alórgano are: inflammations or laryngitis, malignant tumors and benign tumors.

You constitute the laryngitis the inflammation of the larynx, especially of the vocal chords. Your lawsuits are diverse, that is: infectious, as sequel of a pharyngitis or rinofaringitis; traumatic, to speak, to scream or to sing in excess (the conventional hoarseness of an exalted fan after witnessing a soccer game); labor, caused by toxic, powdery, noisy environments - where one should scream -; or for chemical, textile products, gases, etc.; and toxic, for example for excess of tobacco plant.

All laryngitis can be acute or chronicle. Among first o'clock, the most serious era formerly the diphtheria, today for almost missing fortune by means of the cautionary vaccination. Also in occasions they can being of tuberculous origin, in patients with pulmonary affection of this type.

In front of an acute laryngitis, the best treatment is the vocal rest, that is to say, to speak the minimum thing possible and whispering. The remainder of the treatment will indicate it the expert.

A special case of acute laryngitis, is in general the call laryngitis suffocating subglótica that show up in the children in a sharp way, preceded of a flu-like box, of an adenoditis, etc. The lamisma importance comes given by the estrechéz of the aforementioned glottis in the childhood, reason why the inflammatory process when diminishing the space of the step of the air, leads to a progressive box of asphyxia. Initially, you suit to calm to the petty one and not to alarm it, good ventilation of the room, to apply warm compresses in the neck and the ready health care.

As for the chronic laryngitis, all those elements should be deleted that can damage the vocal organ: tobacco plant, excesses in speaking, to screech, etc.; separate the guidelines that the doctor indicates.

Pneumonia

The inflammations of the lung or pneumonias (commonly pneumonias), they are usually produced by bacteria but viral pneumonias, rickettsiósicas, etc also exist. the germs pathogens arrive to the lung transported by the blood stream, or for top-down propagation of infectious processes of the respiratory higher channels: rinitis and pharyngitis that, if they descend, they can give place to laryngitis, to traqueítis, to bronchitis and even to infections of the own lung.

Conjointly with the pneumonias we should mention the bronchopneumonias. In the pneumonias a pulmonary single inflammatory focus exists, of enough extension: it embraces to great part of a lobe, to one complete, or to more than one. In the bronchopneumonias the pulmonary inflammation is plurofocal: the aflame fields of the lung are usually pettier than in the pneumonia, but they exist different. The same germs that cause the pneumonias can give origin to bronchopneumonias.

The pneumonias and bronchopneumonias are always important illnesses. They study with deep prostration, fever, side (if the focus inflammatory wound until the pleura) pain, cough with scarce expectoration and breathing difficulty.

The most frequent bacterial pneumonia is the neumocócida. 90% of the bacterial pneumonias is neumocócidas and they are very sensitive to the antibiotics, especially to the penicillin.

Commonly it is believed, and until many physicians they admit it that from the input of the antibiotics in the treatment of the infections, the frequency of the pneumonias has diminished a lot of .Pero the reality it is that the pneumonias continue being as frequent as before the antibiotic and chemotherapeutic therapy; what has diminished has been its graveness and mortality: the systematic practice, in hospital centers, of thorax x-rays in patient acute affections of respiratory infections confirms it. But given the effectiveness of the antibiotics in the pneumococcal pneumonia, and to be this the most frequent bacterial pneumonia, many of these illnesses, are cured without book credit diagnostigadas.