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Tilly2 | 19:09 Tue 26th Apr 2016 | Body & Soul
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My dad is in hospital, [i]again[], with pneumonia and other long term lung problems.

I was talking to a friend, this afternoon, about him and she was asking me about his 'crisis'. She said that with pneumonia there is a crisis point following which you survive or you don't. My friend is in her eighties. Is she right about this 'crisis' or is it an old wives' tale?

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It is a medical term, used for lobar pneumonia and not bronchial pneumonia which your dad has probably got. "Crisis" is a term used for untreated pneumonia, but today all pneumonias are treated with antibiotics so the term "crisis" doesn't apply.
19:15 Tue 26th Apr 2016
It happens in all the best Victorian novels. But I think things have moved on since then.
If your fren' is aged 100 or over it is quite correct
and occurs in pneumococcal diseases specifically

otherwise it gets better slowly - and your fren' will say Ah yes we used to call that lysis .....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumococcal_infection

has nothing about it
Jesus I must be getting old ....
It is a medical term, used for lobar pneumonia and not bronchial pneumonia which your dad has probably got.

"Crisis" is a term used for untreated pneumonia, but today all pneumonias are treated with antibiotics so the term "crisis" doesn't apply.

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He doesn't appear to have had any sort of crisis but he is very poorly.

I suppose that today's antibiotics can prevent this 'crisis' happening.........?
indux creps
redux creps
hepatisation of the lung
are stages seen erm in Atalantas victorian novellas
and if you are unlucky - carnification of the lung ...
all now consigned to victorian lit

and here.....

http://www.sapere.it/enciclopedia/crepitatio.html

( but doesnt have crisis ) sorry
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Thank you, Sqad. You have answered my question. No crisis then. The drugs will do their work.
yes precisely
occurred at ten days I seem to think
(I wish my mother was around, she was full of stories about medicine in the thirties - like you know what you did before the days of antibiotics .... )
o god and chloroform anaesthesia
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PP is that link written in Italian?
Oh Tilly, I don't know, can't help but thinking of you and wishing the best xxx
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I said my friend was in her eighties. That's why I wanted clarification, Peter.
God sorry I thought this was a question about crisis in pneumococcal pneumonia ...
answering the wrong question again .....
sozza
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Thank you, Sibs. x
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Peter, you have lost me now. I am sorry if I have mis-understood your answers.

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