The main clinical manifestations of patients with bronchiectasis are chronic cough, coughing up sputum, sometimes accompanied by hemoptysis, etc. Symptoms can be relieved by medication, localized bronchoscopic treatment or surgery.
1. Symptoms: Patients with bronchiectasis may suffer from recurrent cough, sputum, hemoptysis, etc. Difficulty in breathing, fever, fatigue, malaise, wheezing, etc. may occur during acute infection.
2.Treatment:
(1) Drug therapy: during acute infection, anti-infective drugs and sputum chemotherapy can be selected according to the type of pathogenic bacteria and drug sensitivity test, such as levofloxacin, amoxicillin and other anti-bacterial infections, voriconazole and other anti-fungal infections, and aminoglutethimide can be given to chemotherapy of sputum and so on.
(2) Bronchoscopic local treatment: Using bronchoscopic sputum aspiration and local bronchial lavage can remove mucus and purulent secretions, reduce the absorption of toxins, smooth airway drainage, and relieve bronchial obstruction.
(3) Surgical treatment: according to different surgical indications, partial segmental lung resection, total lung resection or even lung transplantation can be given.
In addition, it can also improve the airway secretion clearing ability through postural drainage and expectoration, for hemoptysis and other complications of the treatment, etc. It is recommended that the patient seek medical treatment as soon as possible, and the above medicines should be standardized and reasonably applied under the guidance of professional physicians and pharmacists.