10 Symptoms of Walking Pneumonia
Symptom #5: Low-grade fever
Fever is a common symptom associated with walking 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 atypical pneumonia, it is important to know that it has a low specificity towards medical diagnosis, meaning that, lots of other pathologies can cause fever. The fever seen in patients with this disease is milder than the one seen in patients with typical pneumonia.
If you have a fever, associated with other respiratory symptoms and you think you might have a walking pneumonia, you should seek medical attention before using over-the-counter (OTC) medications to treat yourself.
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