Can pulmonary fibrosis be cured?

Pulmonary fibrosis is a serious disease that cannot be cured by surgery. Pulmonary fibrosis is generally difficult to cure, and drugs can only be used to control the development of pulmonary fibrosis. First, the manifestations of pulmonary fibrosis. There are many reasons for lung injury, such as long-term smoking. There are also environmental factors, chronic bronchitis and other lung diseases. Common symptoms include chest tightness and dyspnea. Moreover, the incidence of pulmonary fibrosis is mostly 40 to 50 years old, and most of them are men. Dyspnea is one of the most common symptoms. Dyspnea in mild pulmonary fibrosis will appear during strenuous activity, so it will be ignored or misdiagnosed as other diseases. When the symptoms of pulmonary fibrosis worsen, dyspnea will also occur at rest. Patients with inflammatory pulmonary fibrosis will have progressive dyspnea with symptoms of dry cough and fatigue. The serious consequence of pulmonary fibrosis is the structural change and functional loss of normal lung tissue. When a large number of fibrotic tissues without gas exchange function replace alveoli, oxygen cannot enter the blood. Patients suffer from poor breathing, hypoxia, acidosis, loss of labor force, and even death in severe cases.

Second, how to treat pulmonary fibrosis. Pulmonary fibrosis must be treated actively, and there is no radical cure at present. In other words, surgery can't cure pulmonary fibrosis. There are generally two drug treatment schemes for pulmonary fibrosis, 1. pirfenidone, which can slow down the decline of lung function indexes such as FVC and DLCO, prolong progression-free survival (PFS) and reduce the risk of death. 2. Nidani treatment, which is used to treat idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Non-drug therapy can also be used, such as oxygen therapy, mechanical ventilation, lung rehabilitation, lung transplantation and so on.

Patients should face pulmonary fibrosis with an optimistic and positive attitude and cooperate with doctors for scientific treatment. Treatment measures will also be carried out according to the patient's condition and the symptoms of each patient. After all, each patient's treatment plan and measures cannot be exactly the same.