Is senile emphysema serious

summary

As the name suggests, senile emphysema is emphysema in the elderly. It is a common and frequently occurring disease. It is a disease caused by the degeneration of tissue function. Let's talk about the severity of senile emphysema.

Is senile emphysema serious

First: emphysema is called chronic obstructive emphysema, it is a chronic disease, generally from chronic bronchitis to chronic obstructive emphysema, with the progress of the disease can develop into chronic pulmonary heart disease. According to the patient's symptoms, currently mainly consider chronic obstructive pulmonary emphysema, chronic pulmonary heart disease.

Second: emphysema in the elderly is a more serious disease. Due to climate and other factors, the patient's condition is aggravated sharply, including cough, expectoration, shortness of breath, increased sputum volume, purulent sputum, fever, dense dry and wet rales in the lung, increased total number of white blood cells or neutrophil ratio, cyanosis, etc.

Third: the onset of senile emphysema is generally slow, there are no obvious symptoms in the early stage, some patients will have cough, expectoration and other symptoms, after the onset will slowly appear dyspnea, shortness of breath and other phenomena, patients can not work and study normally, some patients will appear cyanosis phenomenon, that is, lips, fingernails, toenails are purple.

matters needing attention

Senile emphysema is a very serious disease, so when patients with senile emphysema this disease, to timely treatment, actively cooperate with the doctor's guidance and suggestions, so as to achieve the purpose of alleviating the disease, in order to prevent more serious consequences.