Bronchiectasis diet taboos, pay attention to these matters

Bronchiectasis is a common respiratory disease. The common cause is bronchial infection. In traditional Chinese medicine, the cause of bronchiectasis is dryness and heat in the lungs. Patients have many taboos in their daily diet. They should eat more foods that clear the lungs and reduce phlegm, and avoid spicy and greasy foods.

1. Dietary considerations for bronchiectasis

When maintaining bronchiectasis, you should choose foods that can clear the lungs, resolve phlegm, nourish yin and reduce fire. (Pear, persimmon, sesame, taro, fig, monk fruit, olive, radish, raw lotus root, chrysanthemum, tuber, green vegetables, hijiki, radish, sea cucumber, sea cucumber, seaweed, hair algae, bamboo shoots, loofah, winter melon, mung bean, sugar cane, peanut, rock sugar, tofu, bird's nest, dried persimmon, lotus root, yam, white fungus, duck meat, lotus leaf, honeysuckle, etc.)

Patients with bronchiectasis should avoid spicy, warm, fried, fatty, warm, and heat-inducing foods (dog meat, mutton, chicken, goose meat, pork head, walnuts, lychees, longans, apricots, pomegranates, cherries, mountain pickles, peaches, ginger, peppers, chili peppers, radish, garlic, green onions, toona sinensis, onions, wild vegetables, leeks, sesame, bean paste, amomum villosum, cinnamon, ginseng, huangmao, tobacco, wine, etc.)

2. Pathological Causes

1. Congenital

(1) Large structural defects: tracheal and bronchial megarrhea, bronchial softening, pulmonary sequestration, etc.

(2) Ultrastructural defects: immobile cilium syndrome, Kartargener syndrome, Young syndrome.

(3) Metabolic defects: cystic fibrosis, α1 antitrypsin deficiency.

2. Acquired

(1) Primary infection (usually in children): measles, whooping cough, bronchiolitis, bronchitis, pneumonia, tuberculosis.

(2) Secondary infection of bronchial obstruction: foreign bodies, tumors.

(3) Associated disorders of immune diseases.

(4) Autoimmune diseases: ulcerative colitis, rheumatoid disease, lupus erythematosus, idiopathic fibrosing alveolitis, thyroiditis, and pernicious anemia.

(5) Allergic diseases: bronchial mycosis and pulmonary mycosis.