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How do you treat pneumonia?
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Antibiotics depends: It vis treated with antibiotics and the choice of antibiotics depends on whether it is nursing home aquired pneumonia, community aquired pneumonia, hospital aquired pneumonia and if it is in pediatric age group or young patients, diabetics or geriatric age group.
Answered 3/28/2019
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Tx PNA.: Pneumonia is typically a bacterial infection, so antibiotics are the mainstay of treatment.
Answered 2/8/2020
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