What are the main characteristics of COPD?

summary

COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) is a kind of airway obstructive disease with limited airflow. Director Qiu Ning believes that COPD will not only seriously endanger public health, but also easily be ignored. It will also cause many diseases, such as cor pulmonale, heart failure, respiratory hypoxia and dysfunction of body organs. What are the main symptoms of COPD? I'd like to share my views with you.

What are the main characteristics of COPD?

First: shortness of breath or dyspnea. COPD is a sign of symptoms, is the main cause of anxiety in patients, early only in labor, and then gradually aggravated, so that daily activities and even rest also feel short of breath.

Second: wheezing and chest tightness. It is not a specific symptom of COPD. Some patients, especially severe patients, had wheezing; Chest tightness usually occurs after exertion, which is related to the exertion of breathing and the contraction of intercostal muscles.

Third: chronic cough. It is usually the initial symptom. The cough was intermittent at the beginning, severe in the morning, cough in the morning, evening or all day, but not significant at night. A few cases cough without expectoration. There are also some cases with obvious airflow limitation but no cough symptoms.

matters needing attention

COPD patients will have a certain impact, the best should be reasonable treatment, in the early onset of symptoms is also very obvious, patients may lead to weight loss and joint pain symptoms, should be symptomatic treatment of the disease, early recovery of normal living conditions.