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What Causes Dizziness While Suffering From Pneumonia?

My Husband is currenly in the hospital with delirium and pnuemonia in both lungs , a fever of 101.5 , he has been incubated and he is very combative, it all started when I came into the bed room with him moaning, I tried to talk to him he could not talk properly, he was dizzy and confused.drueling, I thought he may have had a stroke , so I called 911 He had high colesterol trigliserides , gout and took xanax but did not take medicine for colosterol or gout. his neck was bone to boen and he had frequent headaches stemming from his neck for months due to his neck.
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Hello and Welcome to ‘Ask A Doctor’ service.
I have reviewed your query and here is my advice.

There are a few reasons for the dizziness in a patient with pneumonia. First of all the bacteria causing the infection stimulates the body to produce chemicals to fight the infection and while this "fight" of the immune system with the infection happens the chemicals produced can effect us by causing several symptoms and among them dizziness.

Another possible cause for the dizziness is the reduced oxygen that happens from pneumonia. Because a part of lung tissue is having this infection, the function of the lungs is lower than usual and does not provide as much oxygen as previously while the need for oxygen is increased due to the infection. The organ that is very sensitive to reduced oxygen is the brain and might cause the patient to develop dizziness due to low oxygen levels.

Hope I have answered your query.
Let me know if I can assist you further.

Kind regards,
Antoneta Zotaj, MD
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What Causes Dizziness While Suffering From Pneumonia?

Hello and Welcome to ‘Ask A Doctor’ service. I have reviewed your query and here is my advice. There are a few reasons for the dizziness in a patient with pneumonia. First of all the bacteria causing the infection stimulates the body to produce chemicals to fight the infection and while this fight of the immune system with the infection happens the chemicals produced can effect us by causing several symptoms and among them dizziness. Another possible cause for the dizziness is the reduced oxygen that happens from pneumonia. Because a part of lung tissue is having this infection, the function of the lungs is lower than usual and does not provide as much oxygen as previously while the need for oxygen is increased due to the infection. The organ that is very sensitive to reduced oxygen is the brain and might cause the patient to develop dizziness due to low oxygen levels. Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further. Kind regards, Antoneta Zotaj, MD