Is survival of pulmonary fibrosis related to the disease condition?

Patients with pulmonary fibrosis must drink plenty of water in their daily lives, because this can prevent water loss and ensure that there is an important source of water in the body. They should exercise more in daily life to improve their resistance, prevent colds, keep their bodies warm, and try to change their smoking and drinking habits. The survival time of patients with pulmonary fibrosis depends on their condition, so they must take good care of their condition.

Dietary taboos

1. Drink more water: It is very important to encourage patients with pulmonary fibrosis to drink more water to correct or prevent water loss. Patients with heart failure should drink water in moderation. Because patients with severe pulmonary fibrosis breathe through their mouths, eat less, sweat a lot, and often lose water, their sputum is thick and difficult to cough up, so they need to replenish water and increase fluid intake in a timely manner. When the patient is unable to eat or drink, intravenous fluid replacement can be used to promote the discharge of thick sputum and help dilute the sputum.

2. Eat less irritating, spicy, fried, and greasy food: The diet should be light, and for obese patients, control the amount of fat intake. It is advisable to eat lean meat to control weight and achieve the purpose of removing phlegm and dampness. Spicy, fried and other foods can easily produce phlegm, which causes heat to help the evil to prevail. The evil heat will be trapped inside the body and cannot be relieved. Over time, it will cause the rapid heat to attack the lungs and worsen the condition.

3. Provide a diet rich in vitamins, high-quality protein and carbohydrates, such as brown rice, eggs, buckwheat noodles, cornmeal, vegetables and fruits, excluding carbonated beverages.

4. Patients with severe pulmonary fibrosis can be given semi-liquid or soft food: it can prevent food reflux and facilitate digestion and absorption. It can relieve chewing and swallowing difficulties caused by shortness of breath. Therefore, patients with pulmonary fibrosis should avoid worsening cough and wheezing due to careless diet according to their actual situation, and prevent affecting the body's absorption of various nutrients.

5. Avoid smoking, drinking and eating overly salty food: Most patients with pulmonary fibrosis who have airway hyperresponsiveness will have symptoms such as asthma and cough aggravated by the stimulation of overly salty food, smoking and drinking, which can easily trigger bronchial reactions.

Prevention and care

1. Keep warm to avoid cold.

2. Avoid contact with foreign objects of known etiology.

3. Pay attention to dietary nutrition.

4. Take appropriate amounts of ginseng, gecko, Fritillaria powder, safflower, and cordyceps, grind them into powder and put them into capsules. Take an appropriate amount, or eat 2-3 walnut kernels daily. The chest respiratory movement can be seen to be weakened, and fine moist rales or crackles can be heard in both lungs. There is varying degrees of cyanosis and clubbing. Signs of right heart failure may appear in the late stage.