Is summer the prime season for treatment of slow-onset lung disease?

Professor Zhong Nanshan, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and former president of the Chinese Medical Association, said in Guangzhou on the 11th that there are many advertisements on the Internet about “curing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease”, which are simply lies, but patients can delay the disease and improve their health condition through scientific treatment, and summer is a stable period of rehabilitation treatment for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The summer is the golden season for the rehabilitation of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The 2013 knowledge sharing session of the “China Health Knowledge Dissemination Incentive Program”, organized by the National Health and Family Planning Commission and the China Journalists Association and supported by Boehringer Ingelheim (China), was held in Guangzhou on the 11th. Zhong Nanshan and Song Jun, Director of the Office and Assistant Director of the China Health Education Center, attended the promotion event. Song Jun pointed out that the prevalence rate of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is 8.2% among people over 40 years old in China. According to the “China Chronic Disease Prevention and Control Plan (2012-2015)” jointly issued by the former Ministry of Health and other 15 national departments last year, the prevalence rate of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease over 40 years old should be controlled within 8% by 2015, which requires the whole society to pay attention to the prevention of acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and active prevention and treatment. In order to reduce the threat to public health. Zhong Nanshan pointed out that the prevention of acute exacerbations is a key goal in the prevention and treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, which requires long-term adherence to treatment. Patients with mild or insignificant symptoms in the daily stable period, but the symptoms appear or deteriorate sharply in the acute exacerbation period, and the mortality rate of patients with frequent acute exacerbations is significantly higher. However, by adhering to long-term standardized treatment, symptoms such as dyspnea can be effectively controlled and acute exacerbations can be prevented. For the general public, good lifestyle habits, quitting cigarettes or consciously avoiding second-hand smoke, hazy days and other sources of pollution, regular targeted medical checkups, early detection and early treatment are effective measures to actively face this highly prevalent disease. In response to the current online medical propaganda about the “cure for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease”, Zhong Nanshan said, now to the hospital for treatment of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, are already in the middle and late stages, so far there is no cure for this patient’s condition, the relevant propaganda are lies. Zhong Nanshan also reminded patients that most patients with slow lung disease have remission of clinical symptoms in the summer, should grasp this period of stability “golden period” to adhere to treatment, as long as adhere to the use of scientific and reasonable measures, will certainly be able to improve their own heart and lung function, enjoy a more relaxed breathing. The “China Health Knowledge Dissemination Incentive Program” is a health knowledge dissemination platform sponsored by the Disease Control Bureau of the National Health and Family Planning Commission, the Information Office, the China Health Education Center and the Office of the China Journalists Association. From 2012 to 2013, the theme of the program was “Prevention and Treatment of Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease”, with the famous host Bai Yansong as the health knowledge promoter.