Symptoms of infectious pleural effusion

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Pleural effusion is a very common disease. If you are infected with this disease, it will not only hurt your chest, but also cause damage to your lungs and other parts. Therefore, we must treat it in time. However, it is very important to check in advance and understand the disease. Symptoms of infectious pleural effusion? Let's talk about it

Symptoms of infectious pleural effusion

Cough, chest pain is often dry cough, with chest pain, cough or deep breathing chest pain aggravation and systemic symptoms depend on the cause of pleural effusion. Dyspnea, a small amount of fluid when the symptoms are not obvious, or slightly feel chest tightness; There is obvious dyspnea when there is a large amount of effusion. At this time, chest pain can be alleviated. And with chest tightness, chest pain, shortness of breath.

The typical signs of pleural effusion include fullness of the affected side's thorax, weakening of respiratory movement, weakening or disappearing of percussion dullness, voice tremor and respiratory sound. The bronchial respiratory sound can be heard in the upper edge of percussion dullness boundary for moderate effusion, and the trachea of large effusion moves to the healthy side.

When the amount of pleural effusion is small, there is no positive sign. When the amount of pleural effusion is large, the respiratory movement of the affected side is weakened, the speech tremor disappears, the percussion voiced or real sound, the respiratory sound is weakened or disappeared, and the trachea, mediastinum and heart move to the healthy side. If the volume of pleural effusion is 0.3 to 0.5 L, only the costo diaphragmatic angle becomes blunt; More effusion showed lateral and upward curved upper margin of effusion shadow.

matters needing attention

Strengthen physique, improve disease resistance. Actively participate in various appropriate physical exercises, such as Taijiquan, Taijijian, qigong, etc., in order to enhance the physique and improve the disease resistance. Pay attention to life adjustment. The residence should be kept dry, avoid the invasion of dampness, avoid eating raw and cold, and avoid overeating, so as to maintain the normal function of spleen and stomach. After the disease, timely treatment, avoid cold, careful living, happy mood, in order to achieve early recovery.