4 points to note when caring for lung cancer patients with postoperative cough

Lung cancer patients have severe cough after surgery. What should I do?

Cough is the most common symptom in lung cancer patients. When caring for cough in postoperative patients, attention should be paid to maintaining the indoor environment suitable, moderate and high temperature. Smoking patients must quit smoking, actively provide psychological care, and combined with traditional Chinese medicine treatment, cough symptoms can be alleviated to a certain extent.

1. Maintain a suitable indoor environment

The air in the room should be kept circulating and clean, the room temperature should be maintained at 22℃, and the humidity should generally be 65%.

2. Quitting smoking is a critical step

The incidence of lung cancer is closely related to the chronic irritation of the respiratory tract by tobacco. Therefore, quitting smoking is the most critical step in lung cancer cough care for smokers.

3. Provide psychological care

Actively provide psychological care to enable patients to maintain a good mental state, build up confidence in overcoming the disease, and be prepared to fight the disease for a long time.

4. Effects of Chinese medicine treatment

Cough accompanied by mild fever can be treated with warm water bath, massage of Yongquan, Hegu, Quchi acupoints, etc.; in severe cases, Chaihu injection, Chuanhuning, Qingkailing injection, prednisone, dexamethasone, etc. can be used.

If it is a dry cough without phlegm or the phlegm is little and difficult to cough up, you can give Fritillaria thunbergii, Asparagus cochinchinensis, Ophiopogon japonicus, Polygonatum odoratum, Olea europaea, Polygonum cuspidatum, and Houttuynia cordata decoction in water and drink it as tea; or take Cordyceps duck, or boiled water chestnuts and jellyfish skin and take it several times a day; or take snake gall and Fritillaria cirrhosa liquid and Polygonatum odoratum paste several times a day.