Mycoplasma test negative

Mycoplasma are generally divided into negative and positive. Most people carry some mycoplasma in their bodies to a greater or lesser extent. They usually live in the human reproductive tract. If you do not feel particularly uncomfortable, it will not affect your health. Once infected with mycoplasma, you should seek medical attention and treatment in time to avoid harm to your health. So what does it mean if the mycoplasma test is negative?

What does negative Mycoplasma pneumoniae antibody mean?

I believe many people will have this question, what does a negative Mycoplasma pneumoniae antibody mean? In fact, mycoplasma negative means no mycoplasma infection. It is a common upper respiratory tract infection and can be treated with anti-inflammatory and cough and expectorant.

It generally indicates mild nasal congestion, runny nose, and moderate pharyngeal congestion. The eardrum is often congested, and about 15% have myringitis. The cervical lymph nodes may be enlarged. A few cases present with maculopapular rash, erythema, or labial herpes. There are generally no obvious abnormal signs in the chest. Dry or wet rales can be heard in about half of the cases, and a small amount of pleural effusion occurs in about 10%-15% of cases.

The lesions are mainly in the lung interstitium. The symptoms of mycoplasma pneumonia vary in severity. Some patients have no obvious symptoms but are discovered during chest X-ray. In addition to general systemic infectious manifestations, most patients often suffer from headaches and persistent irritating coughs. With effective treatment, most patients will recover in about 2 weeks. The infection causes humoral immunity, and most adults already have antibodies in their serum, so the disease rarely occurs.

The difference between negative and positive Mycoplasma pneumoniae antibodies

Many people will ask, what is the difference between negative and positive Mycoplasma pneumoniae antibodies?

Mycoplasma pneumoniae antibodies are divided into two types: Mycoplasma pneumoniae antibody negative and Mycoplasma pneumoniae antibody positive. Because the incubation period of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection is 2 to 3 weeks, when patients develop symptoms and seek medical treatment, the Mycoplasma pneumoniae antibody positivity has reached a fairly high level. Therefore, Mycoplasma pneumoniae antibody positivity can be used as a diagnostic indicator for acute infection. If the Mycoplasma pneumoniae antibody is negative, it cannot be denied that the Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection is present, and a positive Mycoplasma pneumoniae antibody test is also required. Positive Mycoplasma pneumoniae antibodies appear later than negative Mycoplasma pneumoniae antibodies and require dynamic observation.

What is Mycoplasma pneumonia?

Mycoplasma pneumonia is an acute respiratory infection with pneumonia caused by Mycoplasma pneumoniae. Among the pathogens formerly known as "primary atypical pneumonia", Mycoplasma pneumoniae is the most common. It can cause epidemics, accounting for about 10% of all types of pneumonia, and severe mycoplasma pneumonia can also lead to death.

Mycoplasma pneumoniae can be found in respiratory secretions 2-3 days before onset and several weeks after recovery.

It is transmitted through contact, grows between the ciliated epithelium, does not invade the lung parenchyma, has neuraminic acid receptors on its cell membrane, can adsorb to the surface of the host's respiratory epithelial cells, inhibit ciliary activity and destroy epithelial cells, while producing hydrogen peroxide to further cause local tissue damage. Its pathogenicity may be related to the patient's allergic reaction to the pathogen or its metabolites. The infection causes humoral immunity, and most adults already have antibodies in their serum, so the disease rarely occurs.

The incubation period is 2 to 3 weeks, the onset is slow, and about 1/3 of cases are asymptomatic. It appears in the form of tracheobronchitis, pneumonia, tympanitis, etc., with pneumonia being the most serious.

At the beginning of the disease, there are symptoms such as fatigue, headache, sore throat, chills, fever, muscle aches, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, etc., with a prominent headache. Fever varies and can be as high as 39°C. Obvious respiratory symptoms appear after 2 to 3 days, such as paroxysmal irritating cough, coughing up small amounts of sticky sputum or mucopurulent sputum, sometimes with blood in the sputum. Fever may last for 2 to 3 weeks. After the fever returns to normal, cough may still remain, accompanied by pain under the sternum, but no chest pain.

How to treat mycoplasma pneumonia

Methods for treating Mycoplasma pneumonia include diet therapy, exercise therapy, traditional Chinese medicine treatment, etc. as follows:

1. Sichuan Fritillary and Pear cubes. You need 2 snow pears, 4 grams of Fritillaria cirrhosa, 30 grams of crystal sugar, and 10 grams of wet bean powder. Wash the pears, peel them, remove the cores, and cut them into 12 pieces. Wash the Fritillaria cirrhosa, put the pear pieces into a steaming bowl, add the Fritillaria cirrhosa, rock sugar, and 50 ml of boiling water, seal the bowl with wet cotton paper, steam it in a steamer for 2 hours, take it out, place the pear pieces on a plate, pour the original juice into the pot, add a little water, thicken it with wet bean powder, and pour it on the pears. It can moisten the lungs, resolve phlegm, calm the liver and reduce fire.

2. First, stick to jogging, or do endurance sports training such as swimming and playing football. Pay attention to regulating your breathing during exercise, gradually increasing and deepening your breathing, and improving the efficiency and function of your lung breathing. Secondly, doing some chest expansion exercises every day to improve chest muscle strength can help expand chest cavity capacity and enhance breathing depth. Third, you can adopt the regulated breathing method. In a fresh air environment, inhale slowly for 4-5 seconds to allow your lungs to absorb enough oxygen; then exhale slowly, and practice for 5-8 minutes; in addition, whistling often can also improve your lung capacity.

3. Taking the "He's Xuanfei Recipe" decocted in water orally can dispel wind and lungs, resolve blood stasis and expel phlegm, and gradually remove toxins from the lungs. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that pneumonia is often caused by wind-heat (or wind-cold turning into heat) invading the lung defense, which causes the lungs to fail to descend and wind-heat blocking the lungs; lung qi is blocked, depressed and turns into heat, burning body fluids into phlegm, and phlegm and qi stagnation, resulting in phlegm-heat blocking the lungs.

How to prevent mycoplasma pneumonia

If you have Mycoplasma pneumonia, you must actively treat it in order to recover. Of course, preventing problems before they occur and taking proactive measures is also a good strategy. as follows:

1. Pay attention to rest, keep warm, avoid cold, and prevent various infections;

2. There must be a comfortable living environment. Keep the air clean, moist and fresh, avoid allergy-causing factors and irritants, and avoid inhaling too cold, too dry or too humid air;

3. Eat a light and easy-to-digest diet, eat more fruits and vegetables, drink plenty of water, and avoid spicy, sour, numb, hot, fried foods, as well as eggs, fish, shrimp and other foods that can easily induce asthma. Reasonable combination, rich in nutrition, appropriate in proportion, and easy to digest and absorb;

4. Maintain a happy and optimistic mood and avoid mental stimulation and mental stress;

5. Stay away from exogenous allergens, such as: some flowers and plants (especially those who are allergic to pollen), bedding and pillows filled with feathers or old cotton wool, birds, animals (pets or experimental breeders), wood (redwood dust, cork processing), sugar processing, mushroom farming, cheese, wine processing, moldy straw exposure, water sources (hot water pipes, air conditioners, humidifiers, saunas) and agricultural pesticides or herbicides, etc.;

6. Perform appropriate breathing exercises, including abdominal breathing, to increase lung function and exercise respiratory muscles.