Symptoms of pulmonary fibrosis

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The early treatment of pulmonary fibrosis is the best. In order to treat the disease as soon as possible, patients should have a detailed understanding of the early manifestations of pulmonary fibrosis. Only in this way can the disease be found in time and treated as soon as possible. The symptoms of pulmonary fibrosis are not obvious in the early stage of the disease, and moist rales can be heard in the lower lung field during physical examination. When complicated with pulmonary heart disease, there are jugular vein stretch, pulmonary artery second tone hyperfunction, lower limb edema and hepatomegaly. I would like to share with you my views on the symptoms of pulmonary fibrosis.

Symptoms of pulmonary fibrosis

Pulmonary fibrosis may have dry cough and dyspnea. After that, it is often induced and aggravated by respiratory tract infection, and it is gradually aggravated. The common symptoms of interstitial pneumonia are irritative cough or expectoration, a few have fever, hemoptysis or chest pain, breathing faster but no wheezing.

In severe cases, patients will have asthma, general fatigue, weight loss, panic, sweating, clubbing finger and lip nail cyanosis. Blood routine examination, found that bacterial infection, neutrophils increased, white blood cell count increased significantly, if the virus infection, white blood cells more normal or low. X-ray examination showed that the two lungs had increased weight and scattered small patchy or punctate infiltrative shadows along the bronchus.

In addition, progressive dyspnea is characterized by irritative dry cough or with a small amount of sticky sputum, a small number of yellow sputum and blood sputum, fatigue, emaciation, joint pain, low fever, etc. explosive rales can be heard in the lung floor and axillary area, at the end of inhalation, superficial roughness, elevation, emphysema and right heart failure can be heard.

matters needing attention

1. Drinking more water: it is very important to encourage patients with pulmonary fibrosis to drink more water and correct or prevent water loss. Patients with heart failure should drink an appropriate amount of water. Because severe pulmonary fibrosis patients due to mouth breathing, less diet, sweating, often lose water, sputum sticky, not easy to play out, timely supplement water, increase fluid intake. When patients can not eat, intravenous fluid can be used to promote the discharge of viscous sputum, which is conducive to the dilution of sputum. 2, eat less pungent, spicy, fried, greasy food: diet to light, obese patients, control the supply of fat. It is better to eat lean meat to control body weight and eliminate phlegm dampness. Spicy, fried and other food, because it is easy to produce phlegm, lead to heat to help evil win, evil heat depression inside but not reach, for a long time will cause disease heat on the lung, aggravate the disease. 3. Provide a variety of vitamins, high-quality protein and carbohydrate diet, such as brown rice, eggs, buckwheat flour, corn flour, vegetables and fruits, except carbonated drinks. 4. Patients with severe pulmonary fibrosis can be given semi liquid food or soft food: it can not only prevent food reflux, but also help digestion and absorption. It can reduce the difficulty of chewing and swallowing caused by respiratory urgency. Therefore, patients with pulmonary fibrosis should be based on their own actual situation, to avoid the aggravation of cough and asthma caused by careless diet, and to prevent the body from affecting the absorption of a variety of nutrients. 5. Taboo smoking, drinking and salty food: most patients with pulmonary fibrosis accompanied by airway hyperresponsiveness will aggravate asthma, cough and other symptoms through the stimulation of salty food, smoking and alcohol, which is easy to cause bronchial reaction.