(1) Appropriate use of bronchodilators, such as aminophylline and β2 receptor stimulants. If there are allergic factors, corticosteroids can be used appropriately.
(2) Apply effective antibiotics according to pathogenic bacteria or experience, such as penicillin, gentamicin, ciprofloxacin and cephalosporin.
(3) Respiratory function exercise: abdominal breathing, lip contraction and deep and slow exhalation to strengthen the activity of respiratory muscles. Increase the activity of diaphragm.
(4) Family oxygen therapy, providing oxygen 12- 15h every day can prolong life, and if continuous oxygen therapy can be done 24 hours a day, the effect will be better.
(five) physical therapy, depending on the condition, making plans, such as Qigong, Tai Ji Chuan, breathing exercises, quantitative walking or climbing stairs.
(6) prevention. The first is to give up smoking. Pay attention to keep warm, avoid catching cold and prevent colds. Improve environmental sanitation, do a good job in personal labor protection, and eliminate and avoid the impact of smoke and irritating gases on the respiratory tract.
Emphysema is characterized by shortness of breath when exerting force. This kind of dyspnea is caused by the loss of elasticity of lung tissue. It takes a lot of effort for the patient to exhale. Therefore, dirty air stays in the lungs, making it impossible to exchange carbon dioxide in oxygen.
Common patients with emphysema will pant like cattle after a little activity, and then some people will cough desperately. Usually, patients with emphysema are mostly elderly people, but they may also start to get sick in young or middle age. Patients with lung diseases such as chronic bronchitis or asthma are prone to emphysema. It is also related to heredity. There are more male patients than female patients, and some people get this disease because of insufficient serum protein. However, most cases are related to smoking. If you have emphysema and are a heavy smoker, you must give up smoking. Smoking will accelerate the deterioration of emphysema and eventually lead to death.
Emphysema is incurable at present, and it is classified as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease together with asthma. Here are some home remedies that can help you relieve the pain.
Family therapy measures
● Stay away from air pollution.
Maintain environmental hygiene, reduce air pollution and stay away from industrial waste gas; Go to public places less to prevent colds. If necessary, change to a clean and fresh working environment. Do not use spray.
● Do breathing exercises.
You can do breathing exercises to improve respiratory muscle function. The method is to inhale through the abdomen and exhale through the chest. Take a deep breath through your nose, shut up and take a deep breath when inhaling, exhale slowly, and open your mouth slightly. Repeated practice is very effective. If the symptoms are severe, low-concentration oxygen can be used.
● Steam inhalation method is adopted.
Inhaling steam helps to dilute the sputum in the lungs. First, fill a small box with boiling water. Close your eyes, put a towel on your head and inhale steam for 2-5 minutes. To further improve breathing and reduce nasal congestion, add a few drops of one or more essential oils to hot water (please refer to "Aromatherapy" for the recommended list of essential oils).
● Quit smoking
See the section on pneumonia.
● Treat the primary disease.
Because more than 90% emphysema is developed from chronic lung diseases such as chronic bronchitis and bronchial asthma. Therefore, the treatment of emphysema should first be the treatment of primary diseases such as chronic bronchitis and bronchial asthma. Only by controlling these primary diseases can we stop the development of emphysema. For the treatment of primary disease, please refer to the relevant chapters.
● Go to places with fresh air for exercise.
Walking more and exercising more can increase the endurance of the body, and often doing moderate exercise in fresh air is conducive to the recovery of the body.
● Drug therapy
① 6 grams of borneol, 0/5 grams of white alkali/kloc-,60 grams of pine cone powder. After boiling water, apply a new towel to the patient's chest and back while it is hot, and the symptoms will be relieved after 20 minutes.
② 500g shredded radish, sliced ginger 15g. Stir-fry until half-cooked. After gauze wrapping, hot compress navel 15min, twice a day, with 7 days as 1 course of treatment. Castor oil can also be used to cover the chest and back.
Nutrition and diet therapy
● Try to choose soft and rotten food.
Try to eat something that doesn't need chewing. Such as porridge, steamed fish, vegetable soup and so on. Patients with chronic lung disease are prone to dyspnea when chewing.
● Eat more vegetables.
In the diet, raw fresh vegetables account for 50%. Eat a little onion and garlic every day.
● Avoid foods that are prone to gas generation.
Avoid foods that are prone to flatulence, such as beans and cabbage. Because these foods will make the abdomen swell and affect breathing. Hot sake (for example, herbal tea) should be used to help remove mucus. After drinking this kind of drinks, it is good for you to use abc colon stump cleaner. Mix a glass of juice with abc and drink it quickly. This helps to remove excess mucus from the colon and reduce flatulence.
● Other foods should be avoided.
Excessive secretion of salt, spicy food and mucus in digestive tract, lungs, sinuses and nasal cavity. Eat less meat, eggs, dairy products, processed food, cigarettes, junk food and white flour food.
● Take olive oil.
When you get up in the morning, eat a teaspoon of pure low-temperature compressed olive oil. This not only helps the gallbladder and large intestine to remove toxins and wastes, but also provides essential fatty acids in the body.
● Drink juice to clear the intestines.
Drink juice squeezed from carrots, celery and spinach, and drink apple juice, pear juice and watermelon juice. They can not only supplement nutrition, moisten the lungs and relieve cough, but also clean the stomach and expel toxins.
● Supplement nutrition.
① coenzyme q 10.
60 milligrams a day. Powerful antioxidants.
② Garlic essence capsules
Take 2 capsules with meals. It is a natural antibiotic, which can prevent infection.
③l- cysteamine and l- methionine.
Take it on an empty stomach, 500 mg twice a day. Help repair damaged lung tissue.
(4) protein supplement (containing various single amino acids).
Dosage is marked according to the product. Used to repair lung tissue.
⑤ Weisheng Tea A Emulsion
The dosage was 10000iu, which was reduced to 5000iu after one month. Finally, keep it at 2000iu (or use equivalent capsules). Used for tissue repair and immune system.
⑥ vitamin c
5000- 1000 mg daily, taken several times. Strengthen the immune response and help the inflamed tissue recover.
⑦ Vitamin E emulsion
The dose was 1000iu. (Or use capsules, starting from 400iu and gradually increasing to 1600iu) It is an oxygen carrier and a powerful antioxidant. Lack of vitamin e can cause cell membrane damage.
● Natural herbs
The following plants can be used to treat emphysema: it is very helpful to treat dysentery with fenugreek, mullein tea, rosemary and thyme.
● Health medicated diet
① Fritillaria and wax gourd
Cut off the upper end of one wax gourd, cover it, dig out the pulp, put it in Fritillaria thunbergii 12g and almond 10g, steam a little crystal sugar in the pot, and take it in the morning and evening to relieve cough, eliminate phlegm and moisten the lungs.
② Pumpkin paste
Three pumpkins are seeded and cut into pieces, boiled in water to get juice, added with human malt1000g and ginger juice 50g, and boiled to a paste with slow fire, and taken 70g daily.
③ Gecko broiler
Gecko] Yes, there are 1 broiler (about 1000g). Children remove the chicken's hair and internal organs, wash them, add water with clams, onions, ginger and salt, stew them until they are cooked, eat meat and drink soup. Take 2-3 doses a week, once a day 1 time, and eat at will. Tonify lung, spleen and kidney, and is suitable for emphysema and asthma.
④ Sesame soup
Black sesame 250g, white honey 120g, rock sugar 120g. Stir-fry black sesame with appropriate amount of ginger juice, steam with white honey, mash, steam with rock sugar, mix all the flavors and bottle for later use. Take 1 spoon in the morning and evening, twice a day. Warming the middle energizer is suitable for emphysema of kidney deficiency type.
Other therapies
● Chinese medicine therapy
Ephedra is a powerful bronchodilator. However, it should be noted that high-dose ephedra has the same effect as high-dose aminophylline; Don't use this medicine if you have high blood pressure or heart disease. 5 g of Herba Ephedrae, 4 g of Cinnamomum cassia stem, 1.5 g of Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch and 5 g of almond were mixed to prepare an immersion liquid. Soak the above mixture in cold water, and then heat it to boiling. Drink water while it is hot.
● Practice yoga.
The following yoga exercises can help you learn to breathe more effectively:
Put your fingertips on your shoulders, inhale, and put your elbows together on your chest. Raise your elbow as high as possible, then put it down, turn your arms around and exhale at the same time. Say it again.
When sitting on a stool or standing, you can do chest thumping with your arms and slowly stretch your arms back. Fold your fists, move your arms below your hips and pull your shoulders back. Then, the hand behind you is still clenched, inhale and raise your arm as high as possible. Exhale, lower your arms and loosen your fists at the same time. Say it again.
● Aromatherapy
Essential oils such as eucalyptus oil, seaweed oil, fennel oil, lavender oil, pine oil and peppermint oil may help relieve dyspnea and nasal congestion. Suck people directly through the nose from bottles or cotton paper and dip them in a few drops of one or more essential oils. You can also massage your chest with vegetable oil mixed with 2 drops of essential oil.
● Danger signal
Emphysema is easy to cause pneumonia and pneumothorax, and serious cases lead to heart failure and death. Please see a doctor as soon as possible in the following situations.
* Cough with abnormal sputum volume, especially when the color of sputum becomes darker and thicker. This is a symptom of bronchitis and upper respiratory tract infection, which may require antibiotic treatment.
* A mild cough (sometimes called "smoker's cough") lasts for several months. This symptom supports emphysema, but it may also be the early stage of lung cancer.
* Unexplained weight loss. This symptom may be related to emphysema, but it is also a feature of cancer.
* After light activities, such as climbing stairs, shortness of breath often occurs. Similarly, shortness of breath may also be caused by emphysema, but it may also be a manifestation of cancer or heart disease.
● Medical common sense
Self-examination of emphysema
A simple method of self-checking whether there is emphysema: light a candle, straighten your arms, hold your head up and hold your chest high, and don't bend over. If you can't blow out the candle, there is something wrong with your lungs. You should pay close attention to the treatment.