Elderly people with excessive phlegm can be relieved by improving their living habits, physically removing phlegm and taking medication.
1. Improve living habits: When the elderly have excessive phlegm, they can drink more warm water to dilute the phlegm so that it can be discharged. If you are a smoker, you can quit smoking to relieve the symptoms of phlegm. In daily life, you can also eat more vegetables and fruits, less spicy and stimulating food, and develop the habit of regular exercise to enhance physical fitness.
2. Physical phlegm expulsion: clinically, for the bed-ridden elderly, due to old age and frailty, the ability to expel phlegm is poor. When there is a lot of phlegm, the treatment can be relieved by bedside suction and tracheoscopic suction.
3. Taking medication: When the elderly have a lot of sputum, they can also take expectorant drugs such as Ambroxol tablets, acetylcysteine, combined with budesonide and ipratropium bromide nebulization. For those who are combined with acute respiratory tract infections, they should be actively anti-infective, such as cephalosporins and carbapenems antibiotics.
When the elderly have the symptom of phlegm, they should seek medical treatment in time and follow the doctor’s instructions. If you need to take drugs, should also be under the guidance of the doctor. Avoid taking them privately, so as not to cause adverse effects on the body.