Four key points to prevent respiratory diseases in spring

  1, don’t mess with the “flowers” winter to spring, the first warmth is still cold, is traditionally a respiratory disease prone to the season. Recently to the hospital patients, cough, cold and bronchial asthma, bronchitis, pneumonia, tuberculosis and other respiratory diseases than the usual increase in patients. This season, the alternating cold and warm weather, the weather changes, people are easy to get cold, cold symptoms; windy weather, more dust, relatively dry air, there will be dry throat, painful feeling and trigger respiratory diseases, such as acute pharyngitis, tonsillitis, etc.; In addition, this season, some flowers and trees emit wind-borne pollen, absorbed by people with allergies will easily trigger bronchial asthma; Moreover, the spring season, suitable for mites, bronchial asthma, bronchitis, pneumonia, tuberculosis, etc. Furthermore, the spring season is suitable for mites to breed, and mites mixed with dust and fluttering in the air further induce the attack of bronchial asthma. People who are allergic to pollen should avoid going to places with high pollen content in the air such as parks and wilderness, and wear a mask when going out to reduce pollen inhalation.  2, the key to prevention: good habits Although this season is prone to various respiratory diseases, as long as we pay attention to some details of life in our daily lives and develop good hygiene habits, spring respiratory diseases can be avoided. ①Cultivate the good habit of washing hands before and after meals, sneezing, coughing and cleaning the nose, as well as after going out, and if you can’t wash your hands immediately, you can disinfect your hands with disinfectant wipes to cut off the important way of infectious disease transmission, knowing that some respiratory germs are also transmitted by hands. ② Pay attention to the “spring cover” to keep warm, with the temperature change in time to increase or decrease clothing. Although it is now spring, but the climate is changing, the temperature difference between morning and evening is also very large, if suddenly reduce too much clothing, it is easy to reduce the human respiratory immunity, making it easy for pathogens to invade. So be sure to add or subtract clothes according to the weather changes, do not reduce too much at once. The elderly, children and susceptible people should go to sealed public places and crowded places as little as possible. ④Reasonable dietary arrangements, eat more lean meat, eggs, vegetables, fruits and other foods rich in high-quality protein and high vitamins, maintain a regular lifestyle, ensure sufficient sleep, avoid fatigue, maintain a good mood, so that the body is in a good immune state, can enhance the ability to resist viral and bacterial infections. ⑤ Drink more water. When the climate is dry in spring, the air dust content is high, the human nasal mucosa is easily damaged, and respiratory germs invade the body, the first pass is the nasal mucosa, so drink more water to keep the nasal mucosa moist, can effectively resist the invasion of viruses and bacteria, and do not smoke, do not drink, do not eat spicy food, can also reduce the stimulation of the respiratory tract, to protect the natural immune function.  3, careful use of antibiotics I do not know when to start, people have a cold and fever, often require “hanging water” (infusion), and often use antibacterial, thinking that only so, the disease will get better faster. In fact, in general, there is no need to use antibiotics for colds. Otherwise, there is no therapeutic effect on the cold, but to risk the toxic side effects of drugs, increasing the cost of unnecessary treatment. The increase of antibiotic abuse and drug resistance in China is related to the lax control of antibiotics and insufficient publicity. If there are some upper respiratory symptoms, such as chills and fever, nasal congestion, runny nose, sore throat and cough, you can take some common cold medicines, such as Baijiahei, Baiyuning, Neocontrol, etc., or take the wind and relieves the surface of the class of Chinese medicine, or Chinese medicine such as Shuanghuanglian oral liquid, antiviral punch and other antiviral treatment. If the symptoms continue to worsen and there is yellow thick sputum or thick runny nose, some necessary tests should be done and antibiotics, such as roxithromycin and azithromycin, should be applied under the guidance of doctors. If the symptoms are not reduced or even aggravated after taking the medicine for about three days, accompanied by cough, chest pain, or headache, high fever or chest tightness and panic, you should go to the hospital for examination and treatment as soon as possible.  4, pay attention to two respiratory diseases Spring is the season of bronchial asthma prone to attack, while the respiratory infectious disease epidemic is increasingly serious is tuberculosis, this should be a correct understanding, and pay sufficient attention to.  At present, the proportion of bronchial asthma receiving standardized diagnosis and treatment in China is still low, and the reason for this is the misunderstanding of the disease. A considerable number of patients are accustomed to “hanging water” in the emergency room when they have an attack, and do not go to the respiratory department for formal examination and treatment after the initial relief, and lose confidence when they have repeated attacks that cannot be controlled for a long time, and even believe in mail-order so-called special “ancestral recipes”. In fact, bronchial asthma is a disease that can be prevented and treated. After regular inhalation therapy, or a combination of Chinese and Western medicine, the disease can be completely controlled and can work, study and live like normal people.  As we enter spring, the increase in people’s outdoor activities also increases the chance of TB transmission. Recently, there has been a major rebound in the global TB epidemic, and TB remains the number one killer of infectious diseases, with an increasing number of drug-resistant cases threatening to return TB to its “incurable” days. About 550 million people in China are infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and there are about 4.5 million tuberculosis patients, 1.5 million of whom are infectious tuberculosis patients, and 590,000 new infectious tuberculosis cases each year. According to a recent report in Health News, the number of new cases of tuberculosis rose to about 1 million in 2008. The epidemic is serious, and it is especially important to strengthen prevention and formal treatment. If you have a cough for more than three weeks or have blood in your sputum, you should have an X-ray of your chest as soon as possible. 95 percent of tuberculosis can be cured, provided that you adhere to the prescribed course of medication, otherwise it is difficult to cure.