How to treat the elderly with COPD

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I think you don't know much about chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, but it is a disease with high incidence rate in recent years. So we still need to know more about this knowledge. Let's talk about how to treat chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in the elderly.

How to treat the elderly with COPD

First: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is caused by chronic basic diseases such as tracheitis, bronchitis and other diseases that have not been effectively targeted for a long time. The root cause is low immunity and weak constitution. As long as you get cold, cold and other immune decline, it will lead to spasm and contraction of bronchial smooth muscle, resulting in wheezing and chest tightness. Therefore, it is necessary to treat COPD The key to recovery is to regulate the immune imbalance of patients and eliminate autonomic nerve disorder.

Second, the factors of COPD include individual predisposing factors and environmental factors, which influence each other. At present, it is considered that the more definite individual susceptibility factor is α 1-antitrypsin deficiency, and the most important environmental factor is smoking. In addition, it also includes exposure to occupational dust and chemicals (smoke, allergens, industrial waste gas and indoor polluted air, etc.).

Third: there are many ways to treat COPD, the traditional is oxygen therapy, but long-term oxygen therapy can only temporarily maintain the condition, and it will increase the economic burden of patients. In addition to oxygen therapy, in the traditional therapy, there is also vasodilator therapy, but it is not suitable for patients with hypoxic heart disease. Although this therapy can quickly control the onset, because the injection of cardiotonic will cause the electrolyte disorder of patients themselves, so the use is still limited.

matters needing attention

After we know how to cause COPD, we can pay more attention to it in our daily life. It's better not to smoke. We should take more physical exercise to improve our own quality and improve our own resistance and immunity.