Who gets walking pneumonia and how is it spread?

felt like I had the worst cold, ever!

I am in a school (a teacher), so I got the 'crowded places' part.

Rest and antibiotics, and one willl be as good as new!

in first grade. It was like a bad cold. It took awhile for my parents to get around to checking me out. Once I got on an antibiotic I was fine. Plus I got the entire time between Halloween and Thanksgiving off from boring old school and felt just fine. I was actually getting bored at home when everybody was going to school.

This was in the early '60's. Nowadays I think kids are back in school much faster.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sick_building_syndrome

Working out of an airplane can also contribute. Closed environmental systems.

Campaigning and constant travel are very stressful to the body. If she paces herself she'll be fine.

Every time I get on a plane and hear someone nearby go into a coughing/sneezing fit I think, "Oh boy, here it comes".

Couple days later...

fabulous boss at the restaurant insisted I go to the hospital. I did . They gave me prednisone, a steroid, to heal. My boss could believe how fast I got at work and how aggressive I was. I'd love to see Hillary on prednisone debating Trump!!

I literally kept walking around with until it turned into pneumonia and took me out for a few days. I'm seeing posts that it is contagious, but what I remember is that I got it after a prolonged cold, so I was worn down already from that. It was intense, but I got over it and popped right back up after it was over.

It took me three months to realize it just wasn't going away and at times, seemed to be getting worse. Two courses of antibiotics killed it but it was very tiring!

After I had been coughing for several weeks, including a week after the first round of antibiotics that had little effect, I saw a physician assistant who thought it was just some sort of bronchitis "because (I) didn't say I had been tired." !!! Are you kidding? I had been wiped out. In the short office visits that are routine now, she didn't ask me my symptoms or ask whether I had been tired, but if she had wanted a list of them tiredness would have been 2nd on the list.

Including me. No big deal if attended to.

She must be an iron woman to have been keeping up her schedule with that.

upper respiratory infections that look like a cold. Then they sneeze and spread the germs around to others who can get upper respiratory infections -- or may get bronchitis or pneumonia (commonly called walking pneumonia).

When my kids were young this happened to me three times. They got what seemed to be a mild but long lasting cold. And then I got stuck with the walking pneumonia.

Oddly this is one sure way to tell her immune system is working and she's tough.

Sometimes bronchitis too.

it is not terribly contagious.

to stay home a couple of days. Came back in to work feeling fine, but by the end of the day was wasted and feeling bad again. Rinse and repeat. One day, I happened to ask where the store manager was. Someone told me he was home with pneumonia.

Light bulb moment!

I immediately went to my doc, got an X-ray, was diagnosed with pneumonia, sent home with antibiotics and an inhaler. I rested for about a week and was fine.

to be outside but had to rest and was thinking it's not even winter and I already have had pneumonia what? Recovered with rest no long term issues

She was spraying a lead based glaze on pottery.

how many people hug and kiss you, It's surprising more don't...