What is Walking Pneumonia? 

Pneumonia Vs Walking Pneumonia

Walking pneumonia is a commonly used term for a mild case of pneumonia that does not cause disability or require hospitalization. Like regular pneumonia, walking pneumonia is a lung infection.

Walking pneumonia begins gradually. In fact, it usually takes 1 to 3 weeks to reach full stage. You can differentiate walking pneumonia from a common cold because a cold will get better after two weeks, whereas walking pneumonia tends to get worse.

Walking pneumonia causes The organism that causes walking pneumonia is mycoplasma pneumoniae. It can be contagious because it's transmitted through airborne droplets, which are dispersed when an infected person talks, sneezes, coughs or laughs.

What are the symptoms of walking pneumonia? Signs and symptoms of walking pneumonia include:

• fever,
• coughing, 
• sore throat,
• runny nose or other symptoms similar to a common cold.
• severe, deep bronchial coughing,
• abdominal pain,
• headaches, and
• chills.

When you have walking pneumonia, you may notice that your cough gets worse at night.

Treating walking pneumonia Generally, a doctor will prescribe antibiotics after making a walking pneumonia diagnosis.

The most common prescriptions are

• erythromycin,
• clarithromycin, and
• tetracyclines.

As the antibiotics begin to work, you will gradually feel better, but it typically takes about a week after you start taking them to fully recover.

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