10 Symptoms of Pneumonia

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Symptom #2: Fever

Fever is a common symptom associated with pneumonia. It is described as an elevation in your body temperature which occurs as a result of an immune response mediated to fight infectious diseases.

Even though this symptom is quite common in patients with pneumonia, it is important to know that it has a low specificity towards medical diagnosis, meaning that, lots of other pathologies can cause fever.

If you have a fever, associated with other respiratory symptoms and you think you might have pneumonia, you should seek medical attention before using over-the-counter (OTC) medications to treat yourself.

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