What are the precautions after lung cancer surgery?

  Functional exercise lung cancer patients have significantly reduced respiratory function after surgery, and coupled with postoperative incision pain, patients often dare not cough or cough ineffectively, which may easily lead to pulmonary atelectasis and crushing pneumonia, thus affecting lung function. Therefore, patients are advised to start functional exercises of balloon blowing on the second day.  The method is to take a deep breath and blow slowly into the mouth of the balloon until you can’t blow anymore. It should be emphasized that blowing the balloon does not lie in blowing fast, nor in blowing more, as long as you try to blow out the air can. Generally blow 5-6 times a day, do not be too forced, patients should act according to their physical condition.  Therefore, it is necessary for lung cancer patients to do exercises such as blowing up balloons at an early stage. If there is no balloon around, you can fill a glass bottle with half a bottle of water and then insert a straw and blow bubbles into the straw to achieve the same effect.  Respiratory care In addition to early balloon blowing exercise, family members should also help patients to do respiratory care, keep the respiratory tract open after surgery, encourage patients to breathe deeply, effective coughing and sputum excretion can prevent and reduce the production of atelectasis and pneumonia.  1.For awake patients, patients must be encouraged to breathe deeply and cough to promote the discharge of secretions.  2.Assist patients to turn over and pat their backs and move their limbs so that secretions adhering to the respiratory tract can be loosened and dislodged through gravity and the shock force of the back of the hand to promote sputum discharge. When patting the back with fingers together, tap the patient’s back with an empty palm in the direction from bottom to top, from outside to inside, and avoiding the surgical wound.  3.Postoperative nebulization inhalation nebulization: inhalation solution formula is 019% sodium chloride 30ml, dexamethasone 5mg, gentamicin 160,000 units, α-chymotrypsin 4000U, 20min each time, 3 times/d, to dilute sputum, help to drain sputum, and prevent infection. Suction or aspiration with fiberoptic bronchoscope if necessary to ensure the patient’s airway is unobstructed.  The above article introduces the precautions for early lung cancer after surgery, and there must be reasonable care methods after surgery.  There must be reasonable nursing methods after surgery why coughing after lung cancer surgery can be caused by many reasons, however, the time of occurrence is different and people’s mentality is also different. For usual cough, we will be fine with some medicine, but when it occurs after lung cancer surgery, patients and their family members will pay much attention to it.  Then why do patients cough after lung cancer surgery? The reasons are roughly divided into four points 1. Because surgery has caused great damage to tissues including bronchi, alveoli, blood vessels, nerves, some glands, etc., some of which are causing chronic inflammatory or non-inflammatory inflammation or surgical scars, the stimulation of sutures, etc. may cause coughing.  2. Inflammation around the patient’s lungs, or pleurisy, can cause coughing.  3.Surgery causes changes in the airway.  4. The patient’s usual habitual movements may cause it.  If the cough is caused by the patient’s habitual movements, then the patient may not receive further treatment. If the patient’s cough is due to the other three conditions, then the patient will have to take some measures, after all, the symptoms of coughing after surgery are very detrimental to the patient’s recovery.  Many patients have adverse symptoms in their bodies after surgery, and they usually choose to use herbs for regulation.  Chinese herbs are very effective for this chronic disease. The lower lung function will be caused by the lack of lung energy and the lack of vital energy in the body. The regulation of Chinese medicine is first of all to regulate the vital energy of the human body, and this regulation is overall rather than local.  Only when the overall condition is well regulated, the local lesions will naturally be relieved. Then, when the overall condition is stabilized, the local medicine will be focused on the lungs, which can be taken orally and applied externally, and the effect will be better and the recovery will be faster.  After overall conditioning, the cough attached to lung cancer will be relieved or disappear, so that the problem is solved from the root mountain and the patient is benefited comprehensively at the same time.  Famous oncologists have these suggestions for patients with lung cancer cough: you can eat more foods that nourish yin and moisten lung, as Chinese medicine says, white enters lung, so eat more white foods, such as snow pear, white radish, silver fungus, lily and so on.