Autumn is a good season for chronic whistle disease because of the high weather and dry climate, and autumn dryness itself is easy to hurt the lungs. The body consumes a lot in the summer and has a poor appetite, which produces a lack of vitality, and is also the basis for colds and chronic whistle disease attacks. The dramatic change in temperature in the fall tends to stimulate the whistle tract, weakening the mucosal defenses of the whistle tract and causing recurrent episodes of chronic bronchitis. The temperature difference between morning and evening is also favorable conditions for some bacteria and viruses to multiply and spread, along with dry dust, some bacteria and viruses flying in the air, often causing the spread of respiratory diseases. Autumn is a beautiful time of ripening and harvesting, but it is also the season when everything gradually withers and shows a decaying scene, which in some people’s minds can easily cause sadness, decadence and other pessimistic emotions, which can trigger an acute attack of asthma, which is considered “sad lung” in Chinese medicine.
What are the pathogenesis and symptom characteristics of chronic bronchitis and bronchial asthma?
Chronic bronchitis is defined as chronic recurrent cough, sputum production or wheezing that lasts for 3 months or more each year, for 2 years in a row or for 6 months or more, and can be diagnosed after excluding other heart and lung diseases (such as tuberculosis, pneumoconiosis, bronchial asthma, bronchiectasis, lung cancer, heart disease and cardiac insufficiency). The symptoms of the disease are mild in the early stage, with more attacks in autumn and winter, and in the late stage, due to increased inflammation, the symptoms can be present all year round. The disease progresses slowly and is often complicated by chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, followed by pulmonary hypertension and chronic pulmonary heart disease. The number of deaths due to COPD in China is currently 1 million per year, which means that about 2 people die from the disease every minute.
Smoking, whistling infections and air pollution are the “Three Musketeers” that cause chronic bronchitis.
A survey found that the prevalence of chronic bronchitis in smokers is 11.7%, while non-smokers 3.6%, a difference of 3.2 times. Smokers who smoked about 20 cigarettes a day suffered 12 times more mortality from chronic bronchitis than nonsmokers. Smoking is not only harmful to smokers themselves, and research has confirmed that passive smoking is associated with whistling tract diseases, so smoking is inhaled to harm themselves, whistling out to harm others. Bronchial asthma is a very common episodic allergic disease, before the typical attack of the disease, there are often aura symptoms, such as coughing, chest tightness or continuous sneezing, etc., if not treated in a timely manner, may soon appear shortness of breath, croup, cough, inspiratory difficulties, sputum, patients are often forced to sit up, two hands in front of the support, two shoulders shrugged, cold sweat on the forehead, unusual pain, severe cases can be seen in the lips and nails purple, and even due to whistling failure The patient is often forced to sit up and hold his hands forward, his shoulders are shrugged, his forehead is cold and sweaty, and he is in pain. Seizures can last for several hours or even days before gradually subsiding. When the disease subsides, the symptoms can disappear completely, as normal.
The triggering factors of bronchial asthma are.
1, exposure to allergens: such as plant pollen, house dust, mites, industrial dust, animal dander, fish, shrimp, paint, dyes, etc.
2. Whistling infection, i.e. triggered by cold. 3. Climate change, cold air stimulation.
4. mental factors, such as emotional excitement, depression, etc.
5. other factors, such as gas, after strenuous exercise or coughing, certain drugs such as aspirin, insulin, anti-inflammatory pain, etc., may induce asthma.
Second, why is autumn a high incidence of chronic whistling disease?
Autumn is a good season for chronic respiratory disease because of the high weather and dry climate, and autumn dryness itself is easy to hurt the lungs.
Farewell to the summer heat, ushered in a refreshing autumn, people feel much more comfortable than in the summer. But some people will have a feeling of sleepiness and fatigue, this phenomenon is called “autumn fat”, which is because the body consumes a lot in summer, poor appetite and produce a lack of performance, but also colds and chronic whistling disease is easy to attack the underlying factors. Some people are greedy for cold in the summer, feel the cold, inevitably in the fall will be bad fever, colds or chronic whistling attacks, which is often said to be “after the autumn account.
The dramatic change in temperature in autumn often stimulates the whistle, weakening the mucosal defense function of the whistle, easy to cause recurrent attacks of chronic bronchitis, in the elderly if there is malnutrition, the body’s immunity is reduced, more likely to be “old slow” by the injury. The temperature difference between morning and evening in autumn is also a favorable condition for some bacteria and viruses to multiply and spread, along with dry dust, some bacteria and viruses flying in the air, often causing the spread of respiratory diseases.
Autumn is both a beautiful time of ripening and harvesting, but also the season when everything gradually withers and shows a decaying scene, which in some people’s minds can easily cause sadness, decadence and other pessimistic emotions, which can trigger an acute attack of asthma, according to Chinese medicine, “sad lung”. Therefore, the excessive depletion in summer and many factors in autumn often inadvertently affect your health, should pay special attention to the prevention of chronic diseases and autumn health care.
How to prevent and treat chronic bronchitis and bronchial asthma in autumn
1.Quit smoking
Quit smoking is the primary measure to prevent chronic bronchitis and bronchial asthma. Try to avoid allergen contact.
2.Prevent colds.
Cold is the source of all diseases, but also the main cause of acute attacks of chronic whistling disease.
(1) prevent cold and keep warm, when encountering sudden changes in climate, add clothes in time to prevent cold. The arrival of the cold wave should pay more attention to minimize the impact of adverse weather on the human body.
(2) regular living, early to bed and early to rise, do not overwork.
(3) often open the windows to ventilate, according to the measurement, not often open the windows to ventilate the room, the total number of bacteria per cubic meter of air can be as many as 9,000 to 15,000, far more than the national health standards, especially in the long air conditioning environment, the indoor air is relatively turbid, but also contains mites, fungi, flocculent allergens. Therefore, frequent indoor ventilation is an important measure to prevent the recurrence of colds and chronic whistling disease.
(4) pay attention to the cold coughing, sneezing avoidance distance in more than 1.2 meters; at the same time we should understand that whistling infectious diseases are not only spread by air droplets, but also through people’s hands contact and spread, such as telephone sets in public places, door handles, handrails, remote controls, towels, desktops and other surfaces, the virus can survive for more than 3 hours, hands often contact, the same can spread germs, so to promote “Wash your hands regularly, touch your face less, and stay away from the cold.
(5) suffer from a cold, pay attention to rest, drink more water (warm water or plain water can be), less medication, a week of natural healing, do not seek quick results, generally do not need to use antibacterial, but also do not need to move “hanging water” infusion, because antibacterial and hormones on the virus is not effective, and the drugs themselves have some side effects.
3, often exercise.
Maintain 30 to 40 minutes of aerobic exercise every day to enhance physical fitness, improve immunity and cold tolerance.
4, pay attention to diet regimen.
Can often eat some lean meat, freshwater fish, milk, eggs, soybean products and other high-protein nutritious food, in late autumn and winter can also eat some appropriate lamb, beef, etc., to play a warming effect, carrots and other foods rich in vitamin A can make the tracheal mucosa epithelial resistance, to prevent bacterial and viral infections and toxic stimuli have a certain role. Diet should not be too spicy, asthma patients should not eat seafood, shrimp and crab. Autumn dryness is easy to hurt the lungs, you can eat more lungs to dry fruits and vegetables, such as pears, cantaloupe, grapes, sugar cane, lilies, white radish, yam, silver fungus, lotus root, etc..
5, usually weak body easy to catch a cold.
Recommended to take some Chinese herbal tea, such as astragalus tea, prunus ginseng tea, in late autumn when cool and dry can take ginger date tea.
6, Chinese medicine for the treatment of chronic whistling disease is concerned about the symptoms of the acute treatment.
That is, the acute attack to relieve symptoms, but pay more attention to the slow is the root of the problem, the remission period to apply the method of supporting the deficiency to improve the body, improve immunity and prevent recurrence, in the autumn can take some lung moisten dry, beneficial to the spleen Chinese medicine soup, or serve Fu Zheng capsule, Jin Shui Bao capsule, Liu Wei Di Huang Wan and other Chinese medicines, in winter can also be individualized treatment characteristics of the winter cream tonic.