What symptom does pleural effusion relapse?

summary

Pleural effusion, as the name suggests, refers to the accumulation of fluid inside the chest too much. The human chest contains an appropriate amount of liquid, about 3-15ml. In the internal operation of the human body, the pleural cavity continuously forms and absorbs liquid, and 500-1000ml liquid forms and absorbs every 24 hours, which plays a lubricating role in the operation of respiration. However, if the balance between absorption and formation is broken, slow absorption or massive formation occurs, it will lead to the occurrence of pleural effusion, also known as pleural effusion. What symptom does pleural effusion relapse? Let's talk about it

What symptom does pleural effusion relapse?

1. Check for abnormality. The typical signs of pleural effusion are fullness of the affected side, weakening of respiratory movement, weakening or disappearing of percussion dullness, speech tremor and respiratory sound. The bronchial respiratory sound can be heard sometimes at the upper edge of percussion dullness boundary for moderate effusion, and the trachea of a large amount of effusion moves to the healthy side.

2. Dyspnea. A small amount of pleural effusion does not appear breathing disorders, may feel chest tightness. However, when the effusion reaches a certain amount, obvious dyspnea may appear, and the above chest pain may be relieved.

3. General symptoms. Different types of pleural effusion have different systemic symptoms. Like malignant pleural effusion, patients may have weight loss, emaciation, anemia and other systemic symptoms. Empyema can appear shivering, high fever, sweating, collapse and other systemic poisoning symptoms. If it is pleural effusion caused by tuberculous pleurisy, the main symptoms of tuberculosis poisoning are fever, chills, sweating, fatigue, loss of appetite, night sweats.

matters needing attention

Pleural effusion daily need to pay attention to diet, prohibition of alcohol, more intake of vitamins. The diet should be low in salt, avoid spicy, light in oil, easy to digest, mainly carbohydrate and protein food, and the food intake should not be too much. It is good to reduce the metabolic burden of pleural effusion.