Patient's question:
The child has just been born for a few days and has been diagnosed with pneumonia. Now the older daughter is six years old, and I don't know if it can be transmitted.Doctor's answer:
It depends on which type of pneumonia it is, because there are many types of pneumonia. Pneumonia is a very common respiratory disease caused by bacterial infection. Generally, pneumonia is not contagious. Normal people can completely resist pneumococcal infection, but this is not absolute. For the elderly, infants, and people with weak immunity, it is still possible to be infected. Additionally, pathogenic bacteria will not invade the human body. They can only invade and cause infection when the immunity is very low. Furthermore, pneumonia can be spread through air, blood, and saliva.