Chest infection

[Nicetobenice67]

I’ve had about 6 or 7 chest infections in the last 5 years I’ve just had a chest X-ray and I’m worried sick about getting the result I’m not a smoker only passive when I was young mum and dad smoked I’m now in my 50’s

It's important to find out what type of chest infection when it happens once, let alone when it happens 6/7 times and during a pandemic known to cause pneumonia, as the main complication. Important questions: 1. what type, 2. What caused it - what virus, what bacteria 3. Why are you prone to 'chest infections' Some of the answers and questions are here and they are simply basic medicine and these are reliable sources of information: https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/pneumonia/symptoms-causes/syc-20354204, https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/bronchitis/symptoms-causes/syc-20355566, https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/4471-pneumonia This is why it is important to find out what caused pneumonia: https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/24002-covid-pneumonia ''All pneumonias cause inflammation and fluid in your lungs. But research suggests that the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID pneumonia moves differently through your lungs than other viruses and bacteria that cause pneumonia.COVID pneumonia spreads across your lungs slowly, using your own immune system to spread, which means it tends to last longer and cause damage in more places. Other pneumonias cause acute disease — symptoms come on all at once — but don’t last as long''