Is pulmonary edema life-threatening? Recognize its seriousness in time

Pulmonary effusion is very troublesome to patients, so they must actively cooperate with treatment. Pulmonary effusion is also very serious and can cause symptoms of chest pain and fever. Only in this way can they avoid more serious damage to the body. They should eat less spicy food in normal times.

1. Is pulmonary edema life-threatening?

1. Tuberculous pleurisy is more common in young people and often presents with fever; patients over middle age should be alert to pleural metastasis caused by lung cancer.

2. Inflammatory effusions are mostly exudative and are often accompanied by chest pain and fever. Pleural effusion caused by heart failure is a transudate. Right-sided pleural effusion associated with liver abscess may be reactive pleurisy or empyema.

3. When the amount of effusion is less than 0.3L, the symptoms are not obvious; if it exceeds 0.5L, the patient will gradually feel chest tightness. There is local dullness to percussion and decreased breath sounds. As the amount of fluid increases, the two layers of pleura are separated and no longer rub against each other with breathing, and the chest pain gradually eases, but the dyspnea also gradually worsens. When a large amount of fluid accumulates, the mediastinal organs are compressed, and palpitations and dyspnea become more obvious.

4. Patients will have clear and thin sputum, shortness of breath and wheezing. They can eat warm foods, such as nutritious chicken soup, liver soup, lean meat, dairy products, egg custard, etc., which can replenish fluids and lung qi.

5. Over time, wheezing worsens, mouth becomes dry, and tongue becomes red or purple, indicating damage to lung yin. At this time, it is advisable to choose fruits or foods that nourish yin and promote the production of body fluid, such as pears, plums, hawthorns, apples, turtles, lean pork, duck eggs, chrysanthemum brain, eggs, apricots, etc.

2. Dietary considerations for pulmonary edema

1. For patients with weak yang qi and abundant and thin phlegm, the following dietary prescriptions can be used: Cordyceps duck, Cordyceps stewed quail, ginger-braised pork, Longma young chicken (shrimp, seahorse, young chicken),

Stir-fried walnut kernels with spinach, mutton and yam soup, mutton bone soup, Chinese yam, wolfberry and beef bone soup, etc.

2. It is best to eat less spicy food. Quit smoking, drinking, and eat less fried foods to avoid phlegm and heat. Most thoracic surgery diseases are treated completely under thoracoscopy. That is, no auxiliary small incision is needed, no intercostal space is stretched, and no ribs and sternum are damaged, which makes the "big