CEP symptoms progress over months. Fever, often high, of acute onset usually lasts less than 5 days. Myalgias and pleuritic chest pain are symptoms. Chronic eosinophilic pneumonia Fever slowly increases over weeks, months, or even years. Cough, weight loss, and night sweats occur.
Dyspnea is present.
Ninety percent of patients are nonsmokers. Asthma might precede CEP by several years. General AEP patients are acutely ill, febrile, tachypneic, and tachycardic. CEP patients are chronically ill, with low-grade fever and weight loss. Secondary EPs are induced by parasites, such as Ascaris lumbricoides and Strongyloides stercoralis , or by medications, such as amiodarone and nitrofurantoin.