What to do about lung infections in long-term bedridden patients

The main complication in patients who have been bedridden for a long time is lung infection, and it can be recurrent and severe, when it may be a difficult pathogen to treat. This group of people care is very important, regular turning and patting the back, so that the patient does not maintain a long-term recumbent position, in addition to make sputum drainage. It is best if the patient is able to cough on his/her own, and is able to expel sputum on his/her own. If not, the patient should be assisted by electric sputum aspirator or sputum expectorator. Oral care is also important. If a large amount of food remains in the mouth after eating, it may be aspirated and lead to aspiration pneumonia. Once a lung infection occurs, the treatment should be timely and accurate, because most of them are bacterial pneumonia, so anti-bacterial drugs should be applied timely and accurately. Long-term bedridden patients are often cerebrovascular lesions, such as cerebral stroke patients because of hemiplegia bedridden, this part of the patient at the same time there will be choking, aspiration, so the above treatment at the same time, will also be recommended to leave a gastric tube nasogastric feeding, may reduce the incidence of aspiration pneumonia, to reduce the recurrence of lung infections caused by the patient’s health hazards.