When you have a bad cough after early stage lung cancer surgery, it can usually be treated by taking cough suppressants and using bronchodilator medications.
When coughing a lot after early lung cancer surgery, it may be related to tracheal intubation, and usually can recover by itself. During this period, patients can use cough suppressant drugs to alleviate the symptoms, commonly including codeine, which is a central inhibiting drug with cough suppressant, analgesic and sedative effects.
While some patients are due to inhale the irritating gas caused by airway constriction caused by cough, this time the use of bronchodilators to relieve symptoms, such as ipratropium bromide, tiotropium bromide and so on.
It is recommended to use under the guidance of the doctor, do not blindly take on their own. It should also be noted that if there is prolonged coughing after operation, we should be alert to the possibility of recurrence of lung cancer after operation, and then we should go to the hospital as soon as possible for examination and clarification.