How long can lung effusion live?

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Pulmonary effusion is a common lung disease. Many elderly people pay more attention to how long they can survive after they get sick. Lung disease experts said that the survival time of elderly patients with pulmonary effusion disease is related to the treatment effect and their own physical function, the degree of illness and drug sensitivity, and the cause of the disease. Therefore, the survival time of different patients is different. Now let's get to know.

How long can lung effusion live?

First: the diagnosis of pulmonary effusion is the first step to know whether it has an impact on the length of life. After the elderly suffer from the problem of pulmonary effusion, as long as they pay attention to choosing appropriate methods to actively deal with the disease, their condition can be better improved, so as to effectively prolong their life. In addition, patients should also pay attention to maintain a positive and optimistic attitude, and actively cooperate with doctors in treatment, so as to make the treatment effect better. In the treatment of patients, the pleural effusion can effectively relieve the symptoms, but the specific survival period depends on the metastasis of cancer cells. Generally for elderly patients, more conservative treatment.

Second, when the patient's condition is mild and sensitive to drugs, the treatment effect is better, and the patient's survival period will be significantly prolonged; On the contrary, if the patient's condition is delayed seriously and the drug sensitivity is low, the survival period will be shorter. Different patients have different constitutions, but for the elderly, the dynamic therapy of traditional Chinese medicine can be used to take Chinese herbal medicine treatment, in order to better relieve symptoms and prolong life.

Third, the occurrence of some diseases of pulmonary effusion is related to pleurisy. For this kind of patients, the pleural effusion should be pumped out before treatment to determine whether it belongs to pleurisy. If the diagnosis of the disease caused by pleurisy, then to take anti tuberculosis drugs isoniazid, rifampicin, ethambutol to treat, enhance the curative effect, in order to avoid the occurrence of pleural adhesion.

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The elderly usually need to be hospitalized after being troubled by the disease of pulmonary effusion. Under normal circumstances, if we can clear the specific causes of the disease in time, and timely symptomatic treatment, we can achieve better treatment effect, effectively prolong the life of patients. Therefore, it is very important for the elderly to maintain a positive and optimistic attitude and actively deal with the disease after having the disease of pulmonary effusion.