white phlegm
Introduction
Introduction It is a clinical symptom of interstitial pneumonia. The motherland medicine has a certain effect on the treatment of this disease. The main pathogenesis of this disease is the deficiency of lung and kidney, the sputum, phlegm, heat and other diseases, using the method of replenishing lung and kidney, promoting blood circulation, softening and dispersing, resolving phlegm and clearing heat. Treatment can slow down the disease process and relieve clinical symptoms.
Cause
Cause
Interstitial pneumonia, also known as interstitial lung disease, diffuse lung disease, etc., as a disease name, only a history of more than ten years, as the name suggests it is a lung interstitial lesion. Interstitial pneumonia is not a single disease, but a general term for a large class of diseases. There are about a hundred kinds of diseases, and a small number of causes are known, such as pneumoconiosis, drug pneumonia, and radiation pneumonitis. However, a considerable number of causes are unknown, such as idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and sarcoidosis. Although interstitial pneumonia is called pneumonia, it is mainly not caused by infection by microorganisms such as bacteria and viruses.
Examine
an examination
Related inspection
Sputum pathogen examination sputum routine examination
Diagnosis can be based on clinical manifestations.
Diagnosis
Differential diagnosis
diagnosis
I have interstitial pneumonia, usually coughing will spit a small amount of white foam.
Differential diagnosis
Other symptoms of interstitial pneumonia: difficulty breathing, dry cough. Since then, it has been induced and aggravated by colds and acute respiratory infections, and it is progressively aggravated. Gradually there is increased breathing but no wheezing, irritating cough or cough, and a few have fever, hemoptysis or chest pain. After severe, the movement is asthmatic, flustered with sweat, body weakness, weight loss, lip purpura and clubbing (toe). A wet rales can be heard in the lower lungs during a physical examination. In the case of concurrent pulmonary heart disease, there is a second sound of the pulmonary artery, jugular vein, hepatomegaly and lower extremity edema.
The main symptom of interstitial pneumonia in the early stage is cough, which is not easy to detect the cause, so it is easy to be delayed, and the disease can only be stable and cannot be cured. Chinese medicine conditioning has a certain effect. In the late stage, fibrosis of the lungs occurred and cracks appeared. This leads to difficulty breathing. The fibrotic process is irreversible and is basically ineffective in the late stage. The cause of the disease is not known internationally, and the exact treatment is not known.
