How long does bacterial pneumonia last?
You didn’t give me much to work with, so I’m giving you all of my suggestions if you are 15 – 95 years old! Depends on a variety of things…. I assume you got put on antibiotics for it… so a few days after you start them (and take them properly) you should start to feel better. This is of course, if the bacteria that infected you is sensitive to that type of pneumonia, which unless you did a sputum culture (coughed up a goober into a cup for the lab to analyze), the doctor made an educated guess (which, for most types of bacterial pneumias isn’t all that hard). The next thing is, do you smoke? If you do, it will take you longer to heal. You’ve scalded the cilia out of your lungs which help pull all the crud out of there. Your airways will be more bronchospastic and smaller, making it even harder to cough the stuff out, and the smoke also adds to the contaminants in your lungs. Notice I didn’t say cigarrettes… I’m talking about inhaling ANY type of smoke. It also depends on your ge
