How is old pleurisy treated

summary

The typical symptom of old pleurisy is chest pain, and the pain will suddenly appear, let the patient off guard. The symptoms of chest pain caused by old pleurisy are sometimes mild, but sometimes more serious. Even when the chest pain occurs, the patient will cough violently, and there will be obvious dyspnea. This cough generally does not cause sputum, is a dry cough. Most of the sites of chest pain in patients with old pleurisy are the sites where inflammation occurs in the chest wall. How to treat the old pleurisy.

How is old pleurisy treated

First: if the old pleurisy is more serious, then the pain site can be the inflammatory site of the disease, or this pain phenomenon can radiate to the neck and shoulder and other parts, when the pain will make the patient's breathing become very shallow and fast, which will lead to the decline of muscle endurance.

Second: with old pleurisy, this disease will have pleural effusion, different from other pleurisy, this kind of pleurisy usually produces less pleural effusion, but can slowly accumulate, once the pleural effusion reaches a certain amount, it will lead to the separation of the patient's pleura, in this case, the symptoms of chest pain can be alleviated, but the lungs will be greatly affected by pleural effusion.

Third: if there is a large amount of pleural effusion in patients with old pleurisy, it will lead to limited lung expansion. In this way, the patient's breathing is very hard and difficult. If it is not actively handled, it is very dangerous, and it will lead to severe hypoxia in the body. The consequences can be imagined.

matters needing attention

Sometimes old pleurisy patients can find chest squeaky sound, but this time through X-ray examination will not show the phenomenon of pleurisy, at this time must have a heart, such as to do a CT scan, because it is likely to be old pleurisy.