Pneumonia Crisis?

[Tilly2]

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?

[atalanta]

It happens in all the best Victorian novels. But I think things have moved on since then.

[Peter Pedant]

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 ....

[Sqad]

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.

[Tilly2]

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.........?

[Peter Pedant]

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

[Tilly2]

Thank you, Sqad. You have answered my question. No crisis then. The drugs will do their work.

[Peter Pedant]

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

[Tilly2]

PP is that link written in Italian?

[Psybbo]

Oh Tilly, I don't know, can't help but thinking of you and wishing the best xxx

[Tilly2]

I said my friend was in her eighties. That's why I wanted clarification, Peter.

[Peter Pedant]

God sorry I thought this was a question about crisis in pneumococcal pneumonia ...
answering the wrong question again .....
sozza

[Tilly2]

Thank you, Sibs. x

[Tilly2]

Peter, you have lost me now. I am sorry if I have mis-understood your answers.