What is the symptom of pulmonary cyst?

summary

The shapes and sizes of lung cysts vary. About 70% of lung cysts are located in the interior of the lung, and 30% of lung cysts grow on the mediastinum. The symptoms of lung cysts are different at each age stage. What are the symptoms of lung cysts? The following small series on the basis of various age stages of lung cyst symptoms, specific explanation.

What is the symptom of pulmonary cyst?

First of all, if the baby has a lung cyst when he is very young, there will be some very serious symptoms of shortness of breath, cyanosis, and respiratory distress. When checking the baby's body, he will find that the baby's trachea moves to the opposite side, and sometimes the breathing sound will decrease a lot or even disappear.

Secondly, if cysts appear in childhood, then the most common is bronchogenic cysts, children's body will often have high fever, cough, chest pain, repeated lung infection, symptoms a bit like bronchopneumonia.

Finally, adults found that the symptoms of lung cysts are generally high fever, cough when there is sputum, similar to asthma attacks, after work will feel particularly tired, shortness of breath and repeated pneumothorax.

matters needing attention

General diagnosis is clear, in the absence of acute inflammation, should be early surgery. Because cysts are prone to secondary infection, drug treatment is not only unable to cure, on the contrary, because of the inflammatory reaction around the cyst wall after repeated infection, causing extensive pleural adhesion, resulting in more difficult operation and prone to complications. Young age is not the absolute contraindication of surgery. Especially in patients with hypoxia, cyanosis and respiratory distress, early operation or even emergency operation can save lives