How to treat pulmonary failure

The decline of lung function will pose a great threat to our life and health, and it is easy to cause various abnormal conditions in the whole process, such as difficulty breathing, insomnia, restlessness, confusion, changes in intellectual function, etc. In treatment, we should also pay attention to strengthening care, or adopt some traditional Chinese medicine conditioning methods.

1. Treatment

Modern medicine mainly uses active rescue to relieve hypoxia and carbon dioxide retention, adopts low-concentration or high-concentration oxygen inhalation through nasal cannula, oxygen inhalation through mask, pressurized oxygen inhalation, ventilator oxygen therapy, mask steam pressurized breathing, and even endotracheal intubation or tracheotomy, antibacterial and anti-inflammatory, correction of water, electrolyte and acid-base imbalance, application of respiratory center stimulants, and symptomatic treatment with enhanced nursing care.

2. Views of Traditional Chinese Medicine

In traditional Chinese medicine, this disease belongs to the category of "syncope", "headache", "insomnia", "edema" or "somnia". Traditional Chinese medicine believes that a weak constitution or sudden trauma can lead to depletion of vital energy, inability of qi to absorb body fluids, and leakage of body fluids, resulting in shallow or difficult breathing and profuse sweating. The foul air circulates with the blood, stagnates inside and disturbs the spirit, and when the mind is uneasy, it causes irritability, insomnia, restlessness, confusion, changes in intellectual function, and orientation disorder. Deficiency of liver and kidney yin, yin cannot control yang, yang qi rises excessively, disturbing the clear space, so there is headache, tendons and veins are not nourished, and convulsions occur. The Yang Qi fails to replenish the blood, resulting in Qi stagnation and poor blood circulation, which causes the lips and nails to turn purple. Spleen deficiency makes it unable to transport and transform water and moisture, and kidney deficiency impairs bladder qi transformation, resulting in less urine and swelling of the lower limbs. When the Yang Qi becomes weak and the vital energy is depleted, the person will become drowsy or comatose. When the liver fails to regulate its functions properly, it may attack the kidneys, leading to liver-stomach disharmony and stomach network damage, resulting in abnormal liver function and gastrointestinal bleeding.

3. Exercise

Walking is one of the most effective ways to exercise your cardiopulmonary function. However, Dou Wenhao, a professor at Beijing Sports University, reminds readers that the effect will be greatly reduced if you walk in an incorrect way. We know that the purpose of physical exercise is to make our heart stronger and promote and speed up metabolism. This requires a certain amount of exercise and the mastery of scientific exercise methods. Without a certain amount of exercise, the cardiopulmonary function cannot achieve the purpose of exercise. Therefore, many people deliberately add some upper limb movements to their lower limb walking exercises. Regarding this situation, Professor Dou Wenhao said that adding these movements can make the exercise more pure and achieve a certain amount of exercise, but the upper limb training is best done through special exercise methods, such as dumbbell exercises, push-ups, pull-ups, etc. Do not let the upper and lower limb exercises interfere with each other, as this will reduce the training effect of cardiopulmonary function.