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- Walking Pneumonia is an infection of the lungs that stems from a bacterial infection (Mycoplasma Pneumonia), mostly
affecting people under the age of 40. The patient may have symptoms lasting from days to weeks. Once a diagnosis is made, proper treatment is with antibiotics. It is called "walking Pneumonia" because people do not appear to be very sick, even though they have Pneumonia.
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- Usually begin with vague symptoms such as feeling tired or weak, headaches, sore throat, or diarrhea.
- Eventually, most develop a dry cough. They can, also, develop fever, chills, earaches, chest pain, enlarged lymph nodes in the neck, and muscle or joint pains. A few patients may feel short of breath.
- People do not appear as sick as those suffering from other types of Pneumonias do.
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- Walking Pneumonia is due to a Mycoplasma bacterial infection of the lungs.
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- A Diagnosis is made by detecting bacteria on microscopic examination of the sputum by a chest X-Ray or by blood test (Mycoplasma complement fixations, and cold agglutinins).
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- Erythromycin is the antibiotic most often used. Other antibiotics that can also be used include Doxycycline, Azithromycin, Clarithromycin, or Ciprofloxacin.
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