1, symptoms of lung cancer
Lung infection, bronchitis, lung abscess, chronic bronchitis, pneumonia, emphysema and even lung cancer can all cause bad breath to varying degrees. Most of these smells are caused by mucus accumulated in the lungs. Among them, patients with lung abscess are often accompanied by foul breath, and such patients often have fever, pus and phlegm. And chest X-ray examination can generally be diagnosed; People with pulmonary tuberculosis and bronchiectasis hemoptysis often have bloody breathing and bad breath; Patients with advanced lung cancer often have malodor in their mouth and breath.
It is worth mentioning that smokers often have a bad breath that is easy to identify. Even if he doesn't smoke, others can tell from his bad breath that he is a smoker. This kind of bad breath is the smoke left in the dead space of lung anatomy, which gradually exhales with the smoker's breathing movement, resulting in bad breath with "smoke smell". When smokers suffer from lung diseases at the same time, the smell may be more obvious because of the further increase of dead space volume and even pathological dead space.
Although smoking cessation is advocated now, the number of smokers remains high. This has also led to the increasing incidence of lung cancer year by year. And for lung cancer, we must find symptoms as soon as possible and treat lung cancer in time. If you reach the advanced stage of lung cancer, it is not only difficult to treat, but also life-threatening. Therefore, it is necessary to understand the initial symptoms of lung cancer as soon as possible.
What are the early symptoms of lung cancer?
1, the symptoms of lung cancer may cause the superior vena cava to be compressed or invaded, resulting in superior vena cava syndrome, which is characterized by venous bulging of the face, neck, upper limbs and upper chest, subcutaneous tissue edema and increased venous pressure of upper limbs.
2. The symptoms of lung cancer may be compression or invasion of phrenic nerve, leading to ipsilateral phrenic paralysis, rising position of diaphragm, disappearance of movement or abnormal movement, that is, the diaphragm rises when inhaling and falls when exhaling.
3, the symptoms of lung cancer may lead to cancer invading the pleura, which leads to pleural effusion, often bloody. Cancer cells may be found in the sediment of pleural effusion. A large amount of effusion can cause shortness of breath and mediastinal displacement.
Symptoms of recurrence after lung cancer surgery
1, manifestations of brain metastasis and bone metastasis
Symptoms of postoperative recurrence of lung cancer Most of the symptoms of postoperative recurrence of lung cancer occur within 1 ~ 2 years after operation. The main manifestations are: blurred vision, diplopia, headache, nausea, vomiting and ataxia; Bone metastasis of lung cancer is characterized by local bone tenderness, dyskinesia and pathological fracture.
2. Mediastinal lymph node metastasis and superior vena cava syndrome.
The symptom of postoperative recurrence of lung cancer is superior vena cava syndrome, which is characterized by edema of face, neck and upper limbs. The mediastinal lymph node metastasis of lung cancer is characterized by recurrent laryngeal nerve paralysis and hoarseness.
3. The manifestations of spinal cord metastasis and liver metastasis
The symptoms of postoperative recurrence of lung cancer are spinal metastasis, such as urinary retention and paraplegia. Palpitation and shortness of breath occurred during pericardial and pleural metastasis of lung cancer; Liver metastasis of lung cancer shows digestive tract symptoms such as pain in liver area, jaundice and ascites.
2. Maintenance and nursing of lungs
Breathing method of lung maintenance
Lung governs qi and regulates breathing. Clear gas and turbid gas exchange in the lung, and the quality of inhaled gas has a great influence on the function of the lung. If you want to keep your lungs fresh, you must first quit smoking, avoid the harm of second-hand smoke, and don't stay in a dirty place for a long time. Conditional friends can often go to places with lush vegetation and fresh air, do exercise, take a deep breath, and expel the polluted air from the body through deliberate deep breathing.
How to maintain the lungs
2. Drinking scuba maintenance method
The lung is an open system, from the nasal cavity to the trachea and then to the lung, which constitutes the channel of qi. Water in the lungs can be lost with the discharge of qi. Dry air is more likely to take away water, causing damage to lung mucosa and respiratory tract. This is what Chinese medicine says, dryness and evil are easy to hurt the lungs. Therefore, timely hydration is an important measure for lung maintenance.
3. Emotional regulation of lung maintenance
The lungs are full of sadness, and sad emotions are easy to damage the lungs, and people with lung disease are also easy to be sad. Laughing for the heart can overcome the sadness of lung gold. Smiling more can reduce your sadness. Laughter is also a kind of fitness exercise, which can enlarge the chest, increase vital capacity and stretch the chest muscles. This helps to spread lung qi, which is beneficial to the rise and fall of human qi. Laughing every day can relieve fatigue, relieve depression, broaden the chest and regulate qi, restore physical strength and stimulate appetite.
How to maintain the lungs
4, nourishing lung diet
Appropriate related diet maintenance. For diet, it is very important to eat more fruits and vegetables and supplement various vitamins, because with the improvement of economic conditions and living standards, people eat fish every day, reducing the intake of fruits and vegetables. In addition, you can make your own lung-tonifying recipes regularly, and there are many more, so you can learn more. I have eaten it, and I know that lotus seed and lily lean meat, steamed pear with rock sugar, Fritillaria cirrhosa and Sydney pig lung are all good recipes for nourishing the lungs. If you like cooking, you can study them well.
5. An exercise method for maintaining the lungs
Do more exercise in the morning, breathe fresh air and clean the lungs. After the quiet night, the air in the morning becomes quite clean and fresh. Therefore, breathing more air, walking or exercising in the morning can not only nourish the lungs, but also increase physical fitness and resistance.
What food is good for nourishing the lungs?
1. Tremella: You can cook it or stew it, for example, make soup with lily or cherry and rock sugar. Moistening lung and resolving phlegm, nourishing yin and promoting fluid production can cure yin deficiency, lung dryness, dry throat and thirst.
2, radish: raw food can cure fever and thirst, lung heat cough; If you drink the juice of sugarcane, pear and lotus root, the effect will be better. Has the effects of clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, promoting salivation, relieving cough, invigorating stomach and promoting digestion.
3. Persimmons: Fresh persimmons eaten raw can improve cough, excessive phlegm, fatigue and red blood and soft ripe persimmons, and can treat fever, polydipsia, dry mouth, rotten lips and hot heart. Persimmon has the effects of moistening lung and relieving cough, clearing away heat and promoting fluid production, resolving phlegm and softening hardness, and is suitable for winter consumption.
How to maintain the lungs
4, lily: cooked food or decoction, has a certain effect on the treatment of respiratory diseases such as chronic cough, dry cough and sore throat and various autumn dryness diseases.
5, water chestnut: can be served with lotus root juice * * *. It has the effects of clearing away heat, promoting fluid production, eliminating dampness, resolving phlegm, cooling blood and detoxicating, and can be used for treating fever, body fluid injury, dry mouth and throat, and cough due to lung heat.
Taboos to be avoided in lung maintenance
1, the lungs are afraid of dryness. The lung belongs to gold in the five elements and is connected with autumn qi. The dry climate in autumn is easy to consume body fluids, so dry mouth and nose, dry cough without phlegm and dry skin are common in autumn. Autumn health should protect lung yin and eat less spicy products, so as not to aggravate the harm of autumn dryness to human body. At the same time, eat more honey, tremella, sugar cane, pear, lily, sesame, lotus root, almond, soybean milk and other foods that moisten the lungs and nourish yin.
2, the lungs are afraid of cold. The lung is located in the chest cavity, and the meridians are connected with the throat and nose. Cold pathogen is most likely to invade the lungs through the nose and mouth, so that the lung qi will not disperse and the body fluid will condense, thus inducing respiratory diseases such as colds. Repeatedly can reduce human immunity or cause chronic rhinitis.
3, the lungs are afraid of heat. Chinese medicine says that "the lungs are fine and dirty", which is both afraid of cold and heat. Symptoms such as cough and asthma (tracheitis and pneumonia) are easy to appear after lung heat. If the lung and stomach are hot, it may also lead to acne and rosacea on the face.
4, the lungs are afraid of excessive sadness and worry. Although sadness and sorrow are different, they are both negative emotions. Huangdi Neijing said: "Worry leads to qi elimination", "Worry leads to gas congestion, but can't work". It shows that excessive sadness or sadness is most likely to damage lung qi or lead to abnormal lung qi operation.