What symptom does pneumothorax have?

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The life of modern society is fast-paced, people's life pressure is generally large, thus ignoring the health of the body, in the body symptoms of disease, there is no active treatment, leading to very serious consequences. Pneumothorax is a very harmful disease, early detection and early treatment is crucial. Now, let's take a look at the symptoms of pneumothorax?

What symptom does pneumothorax have?

When pneumothorax occurs, the patient suddenly feels chest pain on one side, shortness of breath, suffocation, cough, but less sputum. A small amount of closed pneumothorax first has shortness of breath, but it gradually becomes stable after a few hours, and X-ray may not show lung compression. If the patient has a large volume of air or has extensive lung disease, the patient often can not lie on his back. If you lie on your side, you will be forced to have pneumothorax on your side to relieve shortness of breath. The degree of dyspnea was related to the amount of gas accumulation and the extent of original lung lesions. Even a small amount of localized pneumothorax may cause obvious chest pain and shortness of breath when pleural adhesions and pulmonary dysfunction are present.

Tension pneumothorax due to sudden rise in the chest, lung compression, mediastinal displacement, serious respiratory and circulatory disorders, patients with tense expression, chest tightness, and even arrhythmia, often struggling to sit up, restless, cyanosis, cold sweat, pulse fast, collapse, and even respiratory failure, unconsciousness.

When pneumothorax occurs on the basis of the original severe asthma or emphysema, the symptoms such as shortness of breath and chest tightness are sometimes not easy to detect. Careful comparison with the original symptoms and chest X-ray examination should be made. Physical examination showed that the trachea mostly moved to the healthy side, there were signs of pneumatosis in the chest, the chest of the affected side swelled, the respiratory movement and speech tremor weakened, the percussion showed excessive echo or drum sound, and the auscultation respiratory sound weakened or disappeared. The right pneumothorax can decrease the boundary of liver voiced sound. When there is hydropneumothorax, it can be heard to vibrate water in the chest. If hemopneumothorax has excessive blood loss, blood pressure will drop, and even hemorrhagic shock will occur.

matters needing attention

The patient's mentality is very important, active exercise is also very important, increase vital capacity, the patient's disease will have a healthy body, life to do a good job in prevention, prevent pneumothorax disease brings serious harm, the patient should maintain a happy mood.