A deficiency of one or more of these minerals can leave you prone to cramps. These minerals include magnesium, sodium, potassium and calcium. Intense sweating, diarrhoea and vomiting are the most common ways of developing a sudden, acute deficiency in these minerals.
Germs called bacteria, viruses, and fungi may cause pneumonia. In adults, bacteria are the most common cause of pneumonia. Ways you can get pneumonia include: Bacteria and viruses living in your nose, sinuses, or mouth may spread to your lungs.
1 Pneumonia. 2  Different types of pneumonia, an infection of your lungs, may temporarily cause atelectasis. 3  Pneumothorax. 4  Air leaks into the space between your lungs and chest wall, indirectly causing some or all of a lung to collapse.5  Scarring of lung tissue.6  Scarring could be caused by injury, lung disease or surgery. Different types of pneumonia, an infection of your lungs, may temporarily cause atelectasis. 2  Pneumothorax. 3  Air leaks into the space between your lungs and chest wall, indirectly causing some or all of a lung to collapse. 4  Scarring of lung tissue. 5  Scarring could be caused by injury, lung disease or surgery.