Bronchiectasis is a common disease in clinic, which is mainly chronic suppurative inflammation of bronchi and lung tissue around bronchi, causing the destruction of muscle and elastic tissue of bronchial wall and permanent deformation and dilatation of bronchi.

0 1 What are the symptoms of bronchiectasis?

The common symptoms of bronchiectasis are chronic cough, expectoration and repeated hemoptysis. Severe patients cough yellow pus and phlegm, and can cough hundreds of milliliters every day. How can this happen? It is mainly due to repeated infection, obstruction and traction of bronchus. Some are congenital factors, most of which are caused by repeated respiratory infections since childhood, such as measles, whooping cough, bronchopneumonia and so on.

What harm does bronchiectasis do to our health?

The first is pneumonia caused by our repeated infections, and even the lesions are further expanded, causing damage to lung function. Then there are some complications, which can be combined with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, bronchial asthma, cor pulmonale, cardiopulmonary insufficiency, etc., and corresponding symptoms appear; Especially repeated infections will eventually lead to respiratory failure, especially in patients with bronchiectasis who are prone to hemoptysis. If there is massive hemoptysis, it is easy to cause airway obstruction and suffocation, which may lead to life-threatening.

How to diagnose bronchiectasis?

First of all, it depends on whether you have a history of bronchopneumonia, whooping cough, measles, etc. in your childhood. Then it depends on whether you often cough and cough pus and phlegm. Then it depends on going to the hospital. The doctor can hear the fixed wet rales from your lungs, and you can also see clubbed fingers. Then it depends on our X-ray examination, which can see the thickening of lung texture, curly shadow, etc. The most accurate one depends on ct examination, which can see the double-track column of the lungs.

Treatment of bronchus with traditional Chinese and western medicine

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that healthy qi exists in the interior, and evil cannot be done. If evil is combined, its qi will be deficient. That is to say, the onset of bronchiectasis has an important relationship with physical factors such as deficiency of lung and spleen, spleen deficiency and phlegm-dampness. Therefore, the treatment adopts methods such as supplementing qi, regulating viscera, clearing heat and resolving phlegm, and differentiates symptoms from different angles according to different constitutions and different causes, starting with qi deficiency, liver fire, lung heat and yin deficiency, and studying different prescriptions. After treatment, many patients have obviously alleviated symptoms such as cough, expectoration and hemoptysis. By regulating viscera,

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