How to treat pleurisy

summary

We are not unfamiliar with diseases such as pleurisy. When the disease is serious, it will have a great impact on our body and life, so we must understand the treatment of pleurisy. Let's take a look at the treatment.

How to treat pleurisy

First: pleural aspiration is more suitable for some patients with pleurisy who have a large amount of pleural effusion and dyspnea. The volume of pleural aspiration should not exceed 1000 ml each time, 2-3 times a week.

Second: for some tuberculous dry or exudative pleurisy patients can use tuberculosis drug treatment, such as: isoniazid, rifampicin drugs. For some patients with non tuberculous pleurisy, it is mainly for the primary disease to choose the appropriate drug treatment, purulent pleurisy and some tuberculous empyema with infection of penicillin treatment.

Third: for some patients with exudative pleurisy, pleural effusion, and obvious dyspnea, or some patients with effusion pleurisy still do not absorb after long treatment, it is usually recommended to use pleural puncture drainage treatment, if you want to help patients relieve pain, you can choose oral aspirin or codeine.

matters needing attention

Suffering from pleurisy must pay attention to quit smoking wine, eat less spicy food, strengthen personal nutrition, more need to avoid fatigue. Controlling the source of infection, reducing the chance of infection, popularizing BCG vaccination, preventing tuberculosis in children, early detection and reasonable treatment of smear positive tuberculosis patients are the fundamental measures to prevent tuberculosis.