What is hemoptysis? Patients must know

Coughing up blood is a common phenomenon in daily life, but many people do not know what causes the human body to cough up blood, and often miss the best time for treatment. So what is the matter with coughing up blood? Let's take a closer look at the causes of coughing up blood in the human body!

Do we know what causes coughing up blood? In fact, there are many diseases that can cause coughing up blood. These include lung disease and some serious heart diseases. It may even cause coughing up blood and lung diseases. Generally speaking, people with bronchiectasis, chronic bronchitis, tuberculosis, etc. may sometimes suffer from lung cancer and cause coughing up blood.

Diseases that cause hemoptysis are not limited to respiratory diseases, although respiratory diseases are more common. The following are various disorders that can cause hemoptysis. Such as pulmonary tuberculosis, bronchiectasis, bronchitis, lung abscess, lung cancer, pneumonia, paragonimiasis, pulmonary amebiasis, pulmonary echinococcosis, pulmonary fungal disease, pneumocystis carinii, bronchial stones, lung metastatic tumors, pulmonary adenoma, silicosis, etc. These inflammations lead to increased permeability of bronchial mucosa or lesion capillaries, or rupture of submucosal blood vessel walls, causing bleeding.

Chest trauma, contusion, rib fractures, gunshot wounds, explosion injuries and medical procedures (such as chest or lung puncture, biopsy, bronchoscopy, etc.) can occasionally cause hemoptysis. Common ones include leukemia, hemophilia, aplastic anemia, pulmonary hemorrhagic leptospirosis, epidemic hemorrhagic fever, pulmonary plague, thrombocytopenic purpura, disseminated intravascular coagulation, chronic renal failure, uremia, etc.

What causes coughing up blood? There are many factors that cause coughing up blood. However, we must have some knowledge and understanding of the disease, and actively treat it after promptly discovering the stubborn disease of coughing up blood in our body. This is the guarantee for curing hemoptysis as soon as possible, and this knowledge must not be taken lightly.