What is the harm of interstitial lung disease?

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Patients with interstitial lung disease often have respiratory difficulties, but patients with interstitial lung disease should also consider the examination of the disease. Many times, patients will have different symptoms. We need to adopt different ways to deal with them, and need to do a good job in psychological nursing and health guidance of interstitial lung disease. What is the harm of interstitial lung disease? Next, I'd like to share my views with you.

What is the harm of interstitial lung disease?

General patients are in X-ray lung examination found that they are suffering from interstitial lung disease, at this time has reached the middle and late stage of the disease, patients have been feeling dyspnea, dry cough. After that, it is often induced and aggravated by cold and acute respiratory tract infection, and it is gradually aggravated. There was no wheezing, irritative cough or expectoration, and a few had fever, hemoptysis or chest pain.

In severe cases, dyspnea, palpitation, sweating, fatigue, weight loss, cyanosis of labial nail and clubbing fingers (toes) appear. Moist rales can be heard in the lower lung field during physical examination. When complicated with pulmonary heart disease, pulmonary artery second tone hyperfunction, jugular vein stretch, hepatomegaly and lower limb edema were found.

Our normal lung is like a sponge. The small holes in the sponge are like our alveoli. The part between these holes is the "pulmonary interstitium". Because of the normal function of the pulmonary interstitium, a healthy lung is like a sponge. It has good elasticity. The alveoli can store a lot of oxygen to ensure that we can breathe freely.

matters needing attention

Avoid contact with foreign bodies of definite etiology. Pay attention to keep warm and avoid catching cold. Yam is mild in nature and sweet in taste. It can not only nourish lung deficiency, but also strengthen spleen and kidney. People with lung deficiency should eat yam all the year round. Eat high quality protein, high calorie, high vitamin diet;