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However, pneumonia is not contagious when it is caused by a foreign substance, like when food, drink, or saliva enters the lungs and causes inflammation. This is called aspiration pneumonia ...

Babies and children between the ages of three months and 11-years-old with pneumonia should be offered a three-day rather than five-day course of antibiotics, according to a new draft NICE guideline.

The occurrence of respiratory failure in the postpartum period should always introduce a high index of clinical suspicion of aspiration ... all aspirations lead to pneumonia.

When these secretions make their way into the lungs, it can lead to inflammation and what is known as “aspiration pneumonia,” Schaffner explained. Lin noted that increasing age is associated ...