Pleural effusion should firstly identify the cause of the disease, and choose the appropriate treatment including allopathic treatment and fluid extraction treatment according to the cause and symptoms.
Pleural effusion is recommended to go to respiratory medicine or thoracic surgery to clarify the cause. Possible causes include pleural inflammation such as tuberculosis and pneumonia, metastasis of malignant tumors, rheumatic diseases, liver and kidney diseases, and congestive heart failure.
The first treatment is to treat the cause, such as tuberculosis caused by tuberculosis should be standardized anti-tuberculosis treatment, pneumonia should be treated with sensitive antibiotics, and if caused by metastasis of malignant tumors should be treated with appropriate chemotherapy and targeted drug therapy.
Secondly, according to the amount and nature of fluid accumulation, fluid extraction or drainage can be carried out. If the amount of fluid is small and there is no obvious symptom, the fluid can be absorbed by itself after the primary disease is controlled. If there is a lot of fluid, causing symptoms such as dyspnea, it is necessary to perform a thoracentesis to extract fluid or place a drain. Tuberculous pleurisy pleural effusion protein amount, easy to cause pleural adhesion, in principle, as soon as possible to pump out the fluid.
To summarize, after the discovery of pleural effusion should be timely to the hospital, first of all, to clarify the diagnosis, and then carry out the cause, symptomatic treatment.