The expectoration symptom of bronchitis dilation?

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Bronchitis dilation refers to chronic suppurative inflammation and fibrosis in the bronchus and surrounding lung tissue of patients, resulting in destruction of elastic tissue and muscle of bronchial wall, resulting in deformation and persistent dilation of bronchus. So bronchitis expansion of expectoration symptoms? Next, let's learn about it.

The expectoration symptom of bronchitis dilation?

The course of bronchiectasis is usually chronic and can occur at any age. He has a history of measles, pertussis or pneumonia after influenza, or has a history of pulmonary tuberculosis, endobronchial tuberculosis, pulmonary fibrosis, etc. The typical symptoms are chronic cough, cough with a lot of purulent sputum and repeated hemoptysis.

Expectoration was most common in the morning, evening and bedtime, reaching 100-400 ml per day. Patients feel relaxed when expectoration is unobstructed; If the sputum drainage is not smooth, the chest tightness and systemic symptoms will be aggravated. Sputum is mostly yellow green and pus like. When combined with anaerobic infection, it has bad smell. It can collect all day phlegm in glass bottles. After a few hours, it can be divided into 3 layers: the upper layer is foam, the middle layer is yellow green turbid pus, and the lower layer is the necrotic tissue sediment. 90% patients often have hemoptysis, varying degrees. In some patients, hemoptysis may be the first and only chief complaint, clinically known as "dry bronchiectasis", common in tuberculous bronchiectasis, lesions in the upper lobe of the bronchus.

If repeated secondary infection, patients have fever, night sweats, fatigue, loss of appetite, weight loss, etc. When bronchiectasis complicated with compensatory or obstructive emphysema, the patient may have dyspnea, shortness of breath or cyanosis, and pulmonary heart disease and cardiopulmonary failure may appear in the late stage.

matters needing attention

For patients with bronchitis expansion, if the lesion site is not cured for a long time, or repeated infection, the use of drugs for treatment has been unable to control the disease, surgery can be considered for treatment.