How walking pneumonia is treated?
If you experience the above mentioned symptoms, you should immediately contact your doctor for further consultation. Even though walking pneumonia does not make you bedridden, it still can be very annoying and severe. Walking pneumonia is treated mainly with the help of antibiotics. Based on patients current condition, doctor may decide course of treatment that is needed to be followed. If the patient is still mobile and his/her condition has not worsened, then in that case doctor may prefer only to prescribe pills (antibiotic medicine) and if the patients condition has worsened, then doctor may decide to follow advance steps such as intravenous antibiotics. Is walking pneumonia contagious? Walking pneumonia is contagious. It spreads from a patient to healthy person if a healthy person stays in contact with the patient for a long time. Airborne droplets of fluid from nose and mouth (also known as respiratory secretion) are main medium through which walking pneumonia can spread from one
