February 17, Beijing held the 23rd conference on the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic. Reporters learned from the meeting, many patients with new crown pneumonia virus infection, inducing a systemic inflammatory response. Youan Hospital, director of the Department of Infectious Diseases Liang Lianchun introduced, according to the previous SARS, influenza A H1N1, severe influenza pneumonia diagnosis and treatment experience, combined with the current clinical treatment, the preliminary experience is as follows: the early stage of the disease is the duration of the disease 1-3 days, patients with mild clinical symptoms or asymptomatic, patients with mild lesions in the lungs, conventional chest radiographs 50% can not be detected, the chest CT can be detected subtle lesions. Disease progression is 4-14 days, progressive aggravation of the disease, clinical appearance of obvious cough, chest tightness, wheezing and dyspnea, chest CT shows an increase in the initial exudative lesions, lesions expanding the scope of the disease, refers to the progressive decline in oxygen saturation, the majority of patients in the course of the disease in about 14 days of gradual recovery. Disease recovery period is the patient in the course of 14-21 days, body temperature gradually returned to normal, respiratory symptoms gradually reduced, individual patients respiratory symptoms disappeared in 1-2 weeks. “According to our experience in infection specialization, many patients with new crown pneumonia viral infection, induced systemic inflammatory response, which is the main cause of pathological damage, this inflammatory response will significantly aggravate the disease, so we give a small dose of short course of hormone therapy in the early stage of progression, at the same time, we give a combination of traditional Chinese medicinal herbs soup to promote the lung and benefit the qi and remove the dampness, which will significantly inhibit inflammatory response, but also avoid the side effects of hormones, successfully saving the severely ill patient.” Liang Lianchun said. Source: New Beijing News