What are the symptoms of lung heat?

Lung health is an extremely important factor in people's lives, because people breathe every moment, and the place where respiratory gas is replaced takes place in the lungs. Therefore, lung health has a considerable impact on people's health. For example, lung heat is a relatively common symptom, which has a considerable impact on people's lives. Let's take a look at the symptoms of lung heat.

1. Extended exhalation

There is a barrel chest, increased anterior-posterior diameter of the chest, widened intercostal spaces, dyspnea, cyanosis of the lips and fingers, weakened chest respiratory movement, weakened vocal fremitus, and low absorption sound on percussion examination.

2. Chest tightness and shortness of breath

In the early stage, shortness of breath occurs after activities such as climbing stairs or walking briskly; gradually, it develops to the point where shortness of breath is also felt when walking on flat ground; in the later stage, shortness of breath occurs during daily activities such as washing face, brushing teeth, tying shoes, dressing, talking, and even when resting.

Patients often like to take a forward sitting position (which can involve the auxiliary respiratory muscles), purse their lips to exhale or groan when breathing.

3. Coughing and expectoration

Patients with emphysema often have a history of coughing and sputum production for many years. During the stable period, cough and sputum may be mild and present as white sticky sputum; when combined with respiratory tract infection, cough and sputum may become more severe and present as purulent sputum.

4. Spontaneous pneumothorax

Spontaneous pneumothorax is not uncommon in patients with obstructive pulmonary emphysema, which is usually caused by rupture of subpleural bullae and leakage of air into the pleural cavity. If the patient's basic lung function is poor and the pneumothorax is tense, even if the amount of gas is not large, the clinical manifestations will be severe and active rescue is necessary and should not be taken lightly.

Patients with emphysema have higher lung translucency and often have bullae. Their physical signs are not typical, which makes the diagnosis of localized pneumothorax difficult.

5. Fever

Fever is often present when infection is present. Symptoms such as drowsiness or irritability, mental disorder, headache, sweating, asterixis of the hands, etc. often indicate the possibility of combined respiratory failure. Oliguria, lower limb edema, cyanosis of lips and fingers, palpitations, etc., often indicate the possibility of concurrent cor pulmonale and right heart failure.

6. Fatigue, poor appetite, weight loss, etc.

This is very common in elderly patients with emphysema and is the main symptom of the early stage of elderly emphysema.

The above are the six major warning symptoms of emphysema. I hope everyone will pay attention to them and detect and treat them early.