What is Pneumonia Communal?
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Maybe you mean "Community Acquired Pneumonia (CAP)"?  I have never heard of pneumonia communal, but I practice in the United States.  If your sister lives in the US, I think she likely has CAP, which is the most common form of pneumonia.  It just means that she contracted it in a normal fashion (as opposed to nosocomial pneumonia which is contracted in an acute care setting like a hospital, or atypical pneumonia which involves different bacteria).  It is relatively easy to treat, but with your sister's cancer, she might have to be treated longer (usually treated in 5-10 days; she might require 10-14 days). P.S. - I just read the previous post - I would not pay much attention to that.  MRSA is completely different than community acquired pneumonia...I'm not sure where that person drew the parallel between communal and MRSA.
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There are two types of pneumonia. Bacterial pneumonia and viral pneumonia. The latter is infectious.
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Pneumono ultra microscopic silico volcano coniosis -- a type of pneumonia caused by the inflammation of the lungs due to inhalation of volcano ash.\n\nI broke it all up so it wouldn't turn into ellipses. That's all one word.
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When you ask does pneumonia turn toxic, what do you mean?  If you are refering to a person with pneumonia going into septic shock it is possible depending on the circumstances.\n\nPneumococcal pneumonia is often preceded by a URI. The onset is often sudden, with a single shaking chill; persistent chills suggest another diagnosis. The chill is ordinarily followed by fever, pain with breathing on the affected side (pleurisy), cough, dyspnea, and sputum production. The pain may be referred and, with lower lobe involvement, may suggest intra-abdominal sepsis, such as appendicitis. The temperature rises rapidly to 38° to 40.5° C (100.4° to 105° F), the pulse is usually 100 to 140 beats/min, and respirations accelerate to 20 to 45 breaths/min. Additional common findings are nausea, vomiting, malaise, and myalgias. The cough may be dry initially but usually becomes productive with purulent, blood-streaked or rusty sputum. In many patients, especially those at age extremes, symptoms may be more insidious.\n\nFindings during physical examination vary depending on the character of the process and the stage in which the patient is evaluated. There may be typical signs of lobar consolidation or pleural effusion. In bronchopneumonia, the usual finding is crackles.\nComplications\n\nSerious and potentially lethal complications include progressive pneumonia, sometimes associated with the adult respiratory distress syndrome and/or septic shock. Some patients develop infections at contiguous sites (eg, empyema or purulent pericarditis). Pleural effusions are found in about 25% of patients by chest x-ray, but < 1% have empyema. Bacteremia may result in extrapulmonary infections, including septic arthritis, endocarditis, meningitis, and peritonitis (in patients with ascites). Some patients develop pulmonary superinfections: temporary improvement during treatment is followed by deterioration, with recurrence of fever and worsening pulmonary infiltrates.\nlthough the morbidity and mortality of pneumococcal pneumonia have decreased substantially since the advent of penicillin, pneumococcus accounts for about 85% of all lethal cases of community-acquired pneumonia in which an etiologic agent is known. The overall mortality rate is about 10%, and treatment has minimal effect on mortality during the first 5 days of illness. Factors that herald a relatively poor prognosis include age extremes, especially < 1 yr or > 60 yr; positive blood cultures; involvement of > 1 lobe; a peripheral WBC count < 5000/µL; presence of associated disorders (eg, cirrhosis, heart failure, immunosuppression, agammaglobulinemia, anatomic or functional asplenia, and uremia); involvement of certain serotypes (especially 3 and 8); and development of extrapulmonary complications (eg, meningitis or endocarditis).\n\nMildly ill patients who are treated relatively early usually defervesce during the first 24 to 48 h; however, seriously ill patients, particularly those with the poor prognostic features noted above, often require >= 4 days to become afebrile. Therapy should not be modified if there is gradual clinical improvement and the etiology is confirmed.\n\nWhen patients do not improve, these factors should be considered: wrong etiologic diagnosis, adverse drug reaction, far-advanced disease (most common), superinfection, inadequate host defenses due to associated conditions, noncompliance with the drug regimen by outpatients, antibiotic resistance of the involved strain of S. pneumoniae, and complications, such as empyema requiring drainage or metastatic foci of infection requiring a higher dosage of penicillin (eg, meningitis, endocarditis, or septic arthritis).
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Classical symptoms of infectious pneumonia include coughing green or yellow sputum and a high fever. Chills are also common tohether with shortness of breath. It often features pleuritic chest pain, a sharp or stabbing pain, either felt or worse during deep breaths or coughs. People with pneumonia may cough up blood, experience headaches, or develop sweaty and clammy skin. Other symptoms may include loss of appetite, fatigue, blueness of the skin, nausea, vomiting, and joint pains or muscle aches. Physicians diagnose pneumonia based on symptoms, personal examination, chest X-rays, blood tests and sputum tests. Broncopneumonia is more patchy than lobar pneumonia which is concentrated in one area of the lung.
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disease of the lungs casued by airborne from some1 else
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pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis\n\npneumo-\nnoultra-\nmicroscopic-\nsilico-\nvolcanoconiosis
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pneumonoultramicroscopic silicovolcanoconiosis (dont mind the space in between. they're supposed to be connected.)\n\npneumo = air or lung\nultra = excessive\nmicro = small\nscopic = pertaining to examination\nsilico = silica\nvolcano = volcano\nconi = dust\nosis = condition or increase
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Heavy coughing, dizzy, headache, could put them in the hospital or unfortunately death.  Pneumonia is the correct spelling.
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pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
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any colored phlegm means possible infection, I would go to your physician. I would not let it go for very long it could lead to pneumonia
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Symptoms of Common Pneumonias\nGeneral Symptoms.\n\n    * The symptoms of bacterial pneumonia develop abruptly and may include chest pain, fever, shaking, chills, shortness of breath, and rapid breathing and heart beat.\n\n    * Symptoms of pneumonia indicating a medical emergency include high fever, a rapid heart rate, low blood pressure, bluish-skin, and mental confusion.\n\n    * Coughing up sputum containing pus or blood is an indication of serious infection.\n\n    * Severe abdominal pain may accompany pneumonia occurring in the lower lobes of the lung.\n\n    * In advanced cases, the patient's skin may become bluish (cyanotic), breathing may become labored and heavy, and the patient may become confused. \n\n Symptoms of Pneumonia Causes by Anaerobic Bacteria\n\nPeople with pneumonia caused by anaerobic bacteria such as Bacteroides, which can produce abscesses, often have prolonged fever and productive cough, frequently showing blood in the sputum, which indicates necrosis (tissue death) in the lung. About a third of these patients experience weight loss. \n\n Symptoms of Atypical Pneumonia\nGeneral Symptoms for Atypical Pneumonias. Atypical nonbacterial pneumonia is most commonly caused by Mycoplasma and usually appears in children and young adults.\n\n    * Symptoms progress gradually, often beginning with general flu-like symptoms, such as fatigue, fever, weakness, headache, nasal discharge, sore throat, ear ache, and stomach and intestinal distress.\n\n    * Vague pain under and around the breast bone may occur, but the severe chest pain associated with typical bacterial pneumonia is uncommon.\n\n    * Patients may experience a severe hacking cough, but it usually does not produce sputum.
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PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS- LUNG DISEASE CAUSED BY BREATHI IN CERTAIN PARTICLES
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Usually common in a person with a reduced immnunity, to infection, in most cases it is caused by either a virus or bacteria. causes of viral pneumonia include adenovirus, respitory syncytial virus, the most common bacterial pneumonia is caused by streptococcus pneumoniae.  commonly occurs in alcoholics,the elderly, infants or as a complication to a serious illness
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Streptococcus pneumoniae (also called pneumococcus for short) is a common bacteria and about 50 % of American population carries it asymptomatically in their noses at any point in time.  Pneumococcus, however, has many serotypes (types of immune coating) and if a person gets exposed to another serotype than the one they are carrying, they can contract pneumonia.  The key here is the effect of the struggle between bacteria and the host (ie human).  The bacteria can win (and cause pneumonia) in two ways.  \n\n1. They can overwhelm the host by sheer numbers.  This happens when a person gets exposed to a large number of bacteria, like after interacting with someone with pneumonia.  Pneumonia patients cough a lot and they spread the bacteria in the air.  We actually know the estimate of how much bacteria is needed to overwhelm the immune system (about 100,000 individual organisms). So if that many bacteria enter your nose, chances are they can invade into the lungs and cause a pneumonia.\n\n2. Another way for the bacteria to win is to attack a weakened host.  ELderly, young children, sick people and the immunosuppressed have a weakened immune system and they are more susceptible to the pneumonia.\n\nSo yes, strep pneumonia is contagious, especially if the infected person is coughing and producing large amounts of sputum.  Asking such a person to wear a simple mask would not be unreasonable.  Washing hands after contact also reduces the risk of transmission.  Hope that helps!
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Pneumono ultramicroscopic silicovolcano coniosis\n\nit doesn't have to do with volcanos its a lung disease sweetie.
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I can't see a relationship, a pneumonia affects your lung whereas a stroke affects your brain. You might develop pneumonia if you're lying in bed for too long, which can happen after a stroke.\nEspecially the elderly. If paralized after a stroke and bedridden, the patient needs to be turned on his/her side regularly.