Do not ignore the elderly pneumonia

Older persons in the most susceptible to pneumonia in winter and spring, especially with chronic bronchitis, pulmonary emphysema and coronary heart disease, diabetes, the elderly, and because of a stroke, fractures bed-ridden elderly people. Chinese medicine believes that the dry autumn is the main gas, and five internal organs are lung, lung to "dirty Concubine", easily hurt its dry, leading to Fei Xu, triggered pneumonia. From the physical, the aging of the elderly respiratory tract, bronchial epithelial atrophy, goblet cell proliferation, decreased clearance, clearance decline, coupled with the degradation of thymus, T cells decreased, poor immune function and prone to pneumonia. In addition, elderly people often suffer from "old chronic bronchitis," and so on, weak immunity, poor adaptability, the heat from the cooler weather, when the disparity between the temperature difference between day and night, complicated by pneumonia and influenza easy.

The elderly in case of pulmonary inflammation, the effect of not only poor and difficult to cure, but often leads to heart failure or pulmonary insufficiency, or even cause death. This shows that the pneumonia is a serious threat to health and longevity of the elderly archenemy. The elderly due to symptoms of atypical pneumonia, often prone to neglect and misdiagnosis. According to statistics, about 20% of the elderly pneumonia with cough, 40% - 50% in patients with normal body temperature or fever; 25 percent of normal lung auscultation, did not sound Luo, 50 percent do not increase the total number of leukocytes. Its first symptom, often digestive, respiratory, neurological spirit of the onset of symptoms. About 40 percent of elderly patients with a sharp drop in appetite, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea as the early performance, and often misdiagnosed as "gastroenteritis", "hepatitis". Some patients first performance for asthma, flustered, chest tightness, was misdiagnosed as "heart failure." Also to make them apathetic, Juan sleep, fatigue or dizziness, headache, blurred consciousness as the first symptom, often misdiagnosed as "brain disease", "Old Age psychosis." In addition, elderly people frequently have a variety of diseases, such as chronic bronchitis, pulmonary heart disease, hypertension, coronary heart disease, diabetes, cholecystitis and cholelithiasis, such as cancer. In these diseases, based on secondary lung infection, often complicated clinical performance, could not be confirmed as early as possible, delay the treatment.

Therefore, if the following conditions of older persons, should guard against the possibility of pneumonia:

1. After Jiuzhibuyu flu, a shortness of breath, chest tightness, lips and fingernails Fazi, accelerated pulse, Xiruo.

2. Chronic bronchitis patients to increase Katan, thick yellow sputum色变, breathing speed up.

3. The appetite of unknown causes significantly decreased, nausea, vomiting, weak limbs.

4. Unexplained make them apathetic, tired, weak or manic hyperactivity, lethargy.

5. The short breath of unknown causes, not sits flat leg edema, liver pain.

The elderly such as the above, even if no fever, no Romanian-lung auscultation found that interleukin normal, we should also do regular chest X-ray examination, so as to avoid errors, misdiagnosis, delays in treatment. Elderly people suffering from flu, we must attach importance to, not the effect, should be timely to hospitals for treatment.

Key to the prevention of pneumonia in the elderly

1. In whatever circumstances and actively participate in physical training to enhance physical fitness, improving hardy, disease-resistant capacity.

2. We need to eat more food Ziyin Runfei, such as pear, lily, edible fungus, carrot, sesame seeds, and so on.

3. Attention should be paid to home health. Room to keep clean, fresh air, sunlight, regular use of vinegar fumigation disinfection. Precautionary to prevent Hanxie invasion, induced by a cold.

4. To regular practice qigong. Supervisor every night before bed, sitting in chair, body upright, Liang Xi natural separation, their hands on the light or in the thigh, the first head is closed, the whole body relax, Italy Shou Dantian, the suction in胸中, down from the previous breath, Pat, about 10 minutes and then use the back of the respiratory lung Qingkou back more points. This law is Su Li-gas effect.

5. To enhance the respiratory function. Gradually from Xiongshihuxi to abdominal breathing, that is, when the dark belly breathing to make abdominal decline, gas Shen Dan Tian, and the slow moves to You, to enhance the depth of breathing.