Emphysema can lead to increased lung air content, over-expansion, decreased elasticity of lung tissues, and the harm to the elderly is mainly due to the decline in lung function, loss of appetite, emaciation and other systemic damage and other harms.
1. Decrease in lung function: emphysema leads to decrease in lung function, which may result in repeated coughing, coughing up sputum, chest tightness and even dyspnea, and further develop into pulmonary heart disease and respiratory failure.
2. Emphysema affects pulmonary gas exchange, hypoxia can occur, hypoxia can affect the heart, brain, kidneys, liver, gastrointestinal function, loss of appetite, wasting and other corresponding symptoms.
In conclusion, emphysema, should quit smoking, timely consultation, improve the lung function examination, respiratory function training, etc., when the respiratory symptoms aggravated under the guidance of specialists to the cause of treatment.