What are the signs and symptoms of pulmonary edema?

What are the signs and symptoms of pulmonary edema?

The signs and symptoms of pulmonary oedema centre around the person's breathing ability. Usually when people get pulmonary oedema they become very short of breath. It's a unique kind of shortness of breath because it usually is made better if they sit up. If a person sits up, he finds it lessens his shortness of breath; it doesn't completely resolve it, but it gets better. He can have a cough associated with that. He can have wheezing, much like an asthmatic will have. It can be accompanied by chest pain if the pulmonary oedema is caused by a heart attack. Some of the signs also include neck pains, and the jugular veins become distended because the blood is backing up. People with pulmonary oedema can become disoriented, very fatigued, easily fatigued, and frequently, if it goes on for an hour or two, they'll start to develop swelling in their ankles because the backing up of the blood not only includes the lung, but later on the liver, and down into the more dependent portions of the body where gravity pulls things down, and that would be into the ankles. So, you'll see patients with ankle oedema sometimes.