What is emphysema? What are the symptoms? How to treat it?

Emphysema, as the name implies, causes the lung and trachea to swell in time. There are many branch bronchi in the lungs, which are responsible for conveying inhaled oxygen to all parts of the body. During transportation, the trachea will continuously contract and expand to provide power. However, when some external stimuli appear, the elasticity of the trachea will be damaged, which will affect the excessive swelling and volume increase of the lungs and may also destroy the inner wall of the trachea. This is emphysema.

This disease mostly occurs in middle-aged and elderly people. Many middle-aged and elderly people will be infected with bacteria in the air to induce emphysema because of long-term smoking or not paying attention to lung health. Emphysema will affect people's respiratory system and bring many complications, such as respiratory failure, heart disease, gastric ulcer and so on. Therefore, it is very important to find emphysema in time and treat it.

The doctor summed up some manifestations of emphysema and quickly compared them.

1. In the early stage of emphysema, shortness of breath and chest tightness will be caused by abnormal pulmonary trachea. Sometimes this kind of performance only appears when the human body is exercising or working, so it is easy to be ignored. The degree of emphysema continues to deepen, and the situation of dyspnea will become more obvious. I feel out of breath when I move a little. If you rest for a long time, you will not be able to relieve your shortness of breath. Maybe it's an abnormal lung. Maybe it's emphysema.

2, often cough a lot. Many patients with emphysema have a history of coughing for many years. Sometimes they cough slightly and spit out white sticky phlegm. Sometimes they cough badly, not only coughing up purulent sputum, but also respiratory infection.

3. Many middle-aged and elderly patients with emphysema will have chest protrusion and barrel chest. Because in middle-aged and elderly people, the ribs have been calcified gradually with the body, which means that there is emphysema in the lungs, which may make the ribs open, and many of them will show the widening of the rib space, and severe emphysema will appear barrel chest. And this kind of performance can also be judged by observing breathing. Breathing will obviously show shortness of breath and weak breathing sound.

4. Because of emphysema, patients will lack oxygen in their bodies due to poor breathing, which is prone to limb weakness and loss of appetite. When the lungs are abnormal, it will affect the gas exchange in the body, the body organs will not get enough oxygen, the work efficiency will decrease, and the digestive system will become slow, thus affecting people's desire to eat, food will not be digested and absorbed, and the body may gradually lose weight.