What causes bedridden elderly people to have extra phlegm?

The bedridden elderly sputum is especially common due to chronic bronchitis, crashing pneumonia, lung abscess and so on. 1. Chronic bronchitis: mostly related to pathogenic microbial infection. Inflammation can lead to edema, degeneration, detachment and necrosis of the tracheal epithelial cells, thus causing an increase in sputum, which can be treated with antibiotics such as penicillin, ceftriaxone sodium, and combined with sputum chemotherapeutic drugs such as aminoglutethimide hydrochloride and eucalyptus-pinocereus enterosol capsule, and so on. 2. Pneumatitis: due to the bedridden elderly long-term bedridden, underlying diseases, age, impaired consciousness and other reasons, can not be timely discharged respiratory secretions, resulting in the accumulation of pulmonary secretions, causing bacterial growth, triggered by the pneumonitis of the fall, which in turn led to the increase in respiratory secretions, sputum symptoms, can be used to treat drugs such as cefuzodoxime, levofloxacin and other drugs. 3. Lung abscess: due to the decline in resistance of the bedridden elderly, the respiratory system’s defense ability to decline, the lungs may be infected by a variety of pathogenic microorganisms, resulting in lung abscess, leading to the bedridden elderly pus sputum increase. Severe patients will have a large amount of hemoptysis, accompanied by weakness, loss of appetite, night sweats and other systemic symptoms, available clindamycin, metronidazole and other drugs. The bedridden elderly sputum is particularly large patients are recommended to actively cooperate with the doctor’s treatment, regularly given to the elderly turn over and pat the back to assist in the discharge of sputum and other ways to relieve, if the seriousness of the doctors or nurses can be suction treatment.