Today IMUZINEWS has prepared an article about pneumonia and how to prevent it. Pneumonia is a disease that can be treated and cured as soon as you go to the doctor.

In 2021 this disease claimed the lives of more than 2.5 million, including children and the elderly.

The 12th of October is the day dedicated to Fight Pneumonia. Asthma is a disease that affects the lower respiratory tract, especially in the lungs, because there is an exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide.

Pneumonia is caused when the lungs become infected with bacteria or viruses. Generally, everyone can get pneumonia due to the fact that these germs that cause it are common in the air that people breathe.

Pneumonia-causing insects often travel in dust and wind, and when they reach the lungs, they can destroy the air we breathe.

Some of the methods used to prevent pneumonia include immunizing young children with vaccines such as pneumococcal to protect against pneumonia, breastfeeding to increase immunity, and providing a healthy diet to children. As World Pneumonia Day is celebrated, the theme for 2024 is ‘Breathing Matters, Prevent Pneumonia Early.’

Although pneumonia is one of the world’s leading killers, it appears to be on the decline due to vaccinations, with 3.42 million deaths in 1980, including more than 2.5 million children.‎Understand Pneumonia affects young and old alike and is preventable.‎

 ‎In the world, pneumonia is the disease that kills most children under the age of 5, and the way to treat pneumonia in Rwanda was taken in 2007 in the treatment of combined diseases, including fever, malaria, and pneumonia, by health consultants.‎ ‎

Rwanda in 2009 was the first sub-Saharan country to protect against pneumonia using the pneumococcal vaccine.‎ ‎

In addition to other vaccines such as hemophiles, influenza, which help protect children from pneumonia, the RBC administration urges people to seek prompt treatment for respiratory infections to prevent them from developing pneumonia.