When cough chest abdomen ache symptom?

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Cough is a "small problem" in the eyes of most people. They think it may be a cold, or take some medicine or it will pass. In the past two days, the temperature was low and the haze lasted for many days. The office was also surrounded by heavy coughing. Some coughed for 3-5 days and gradually improved, while others coughed for 1-2 weeks and still could not stop taking the medicine. When cough chest abdomen ache symptom? Let's talk about it.

When cough chest abdomen ache symptom?

Most coughs are indeed manifestations of mild upper respiratory tract infections (that is, colds), which can be cured without treatment. But if it doesn't improve or even worsen gradually for more than a few weeks, or hemoptysis and chest tightness appear, we must pay attention to it. Cough that can't be cured for a long time may be a sign of serious illness.

Usually, if cough or other cold like symptoms continue for more than 10 days without obvious improvement, or have dyspnea, chest pain, fever more than 38.5 ℃, we need to be highly vigilant whether it is caused by pneumonia. Specific to cough, the early stage of pneumonia is usually irritative dry cough, and the later stage can produce mucus bloody sputum, rust colored sputum or purulent sputum.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the general name of chronic bronchitis and obstructive emphysema. It is characterized by continuous obstruction of air flow from the lungs. It is common in people over 40 years old and is closely related to smoking. When it is serious, it can further develop into cor pulmonale and respiratory failure, even life-threatening.

matters needing attention

Usually cough more than 3 weeks, accompanied by chest pain, fatigue, weight loss, fever, night sweats and hemoptysis, is a sign of tuberculosis, need to use antibiotics.