Treatment of extensive bronchiectasis of both lungs combined with pulmonary infection

  The patient, a 48-year-old female, suffered from bronchiectasis after a childhood measles rash combined with post-rash lobar pneumonia, which started at the age of 13 and has been uninterruptedly treated (mainly with medical treatment) for decades, and has now developed into extensive (left lower lobe, right middle and lower lobe) cystic bronchiectasis in both lungs. It is often in a chronic phase of infection, with constant yellow thick sputum and infrequent coughing of blood.  There are two common types of clinical manifestations of bronchiectasis, dry: the usual sputum coughing is small, dominated by sudden episodes of bright red, more or less amount of hemoptysis; wet: the usual sputum coughing is large, purulent sputum, which becomes three layers after placement, the lower layer is purulent, the middle is mucus, and the upper layer is foamy, but there are fewer hemoptysis. In recent years, I have adopted different treatment methods for the two clinical types to achieve better results.  I. Dry bronchiectasis Patients mainly present with hemoptysis, hemoptysis in small, medium or large amounts. Recurrent patients often have blood in sputum, or a small amount of blood in between, mostly bright red during the attack, then dark red, sometimes it can stop by itself, but recurrent attacks are difficult to be cured.  1. Treatment during episodes: Patients often have excessive fatigue, external sensation, emotional factors, with or without coughing, sputum, red tongue with thin yellow coating and fine pulse. Treatment is to dredge the wind and relieve the symptoms, clear heat and cool the blood to stop bleeding. The formula takes Yin Qiao San gold silver flower, forsythia, orris, rhizome, peppermint, cicada, sage, mast, scutellaria, small thistle and antelope powder (punch) plus or minus. If the bleeding volume is below 30ml/day, the hemoptysis will be stopped in 7 days after taking the medicine. If the amount of hemoptysis in 30 ~ 50ml / day, the above add raw earth, lotus root, dry lotus grass, Xianhecao, Panax notoginseng powder 1.5g (punch), generally take the medicine about 14 days hemoptysis that stop.  If the amount of hemoptysis 50ml-100ml/day, should be combined with western medicine hemostasis (hemostatic min, anloin, hemostatic aromatic acid, vitamin K4), such as hemoptysis in the amount of 100ml-500ml/day, then consider acute ciliary hemostasis, has treated more than 10 cases of patients, for acute bleeding, bleeding volume, or repeated hemoptysis more than patients with significant results, the effect of dry branched dilation is better, the method is The normal operation of ciliofibroscopy, fresh bleeding can be seen to fill the bronchus above the segment if there is more bleeding, just inject thrombin at the mouth of the tube.  On the second day, fresh bleeding is often then confined to the sub-segment, and on the third day it is below the sub-segment, and most patients stop bleeding within a week with significant hemostatic effect. There are no side effects and contraindications of posterior pituitary hormone, wide range of applications, in addition to the above treatment, without posterior pituitary hormone to treat, at present, the treatment of branchial hemoptysis by fibrinoscopy method has not been found to fail to stop bleeding. However, attention should be paid to the differential diagnosis, and timely surgical treatment should be considered for bleeding from cancer and local chronic ulcerative inflammation to avoid delay.  2.Treatment in remission: most patients have no obvious discomfort or only mild chest tightness; a few patients feel discomfort in the throat, or have low fever, five heartburn, tongue image: most have fat tongue, red or dark red tongue, little moss, or thin yellow moss; a few patients have small tongue and little moss. The pulse is flat, or sunken and weak, or sunken and fine. Treatment in remission is very important, often through remission treatment can significantly reduce seizures, or basically no seizures, which is often ignored by clinicians and patients. Most people believe that no treatment is needed if there are no symptoms, which is not true. (1) Liver and kidney yin deficiency: a common clinical type, the attack is often a small amount of bleeding, bright red, often can be stopped by oral decoction of Chinese medicine, no obvious discomfort during the remission period, the tongue is fat or thin, no moss or thin yellow moss, the pulse is sunken and thin, treatment to nourish yin and blood to nourish the liver and kidney, Chinese medicine to take Sheng Shu Di, He Shou Wu, Mulberry leaf The treatment is to nourish Yin and Blood to nourish the liver and kidney.  (2) Yin deficiency fire: the attack period is a medium or large amount of bleeding, bright red, often by the combination of Chinese and Western treatment to stop the bleeding, remission period, low fever, five heart troubled heat, dry throat does not like to drink, the tongue body is thin and small is seen, the pulse is thin, treatment to nourish Yin and clear heat, Chinese medicine to take raw earth, small thistle, Amaranthus, Xianhecao, mulberry leaf, dogwood, chasteberry, dry lotus grass, rehmannia, sage, forsythia, yam, jiao mountain gardenia treatment, after taking medicine in 6 months The effect can be obtained only after taking the medicine for more than 6 months.  (3) Lung and spleen qi deficiency: small or medium amount of bleeding during the attack period. During the remission period, the patient feels weakness, slight chest tightness, sometimes feels obstruction in the throat, with a light red tongue, fat, yellow fur, and a weak pulse. Treatment takes more than 6 months or longer. In addition, during the acute attack period, fresh small thistle, fresh reed root, fresh dendrobium, fresh raw earth, fresh lotus root, pounded and extracted juice, 3 to 4 times a day, has the effect of nourishing Yin and moistening the lung to stop bleeding. During the remission period, fresh small thistle, fresh raw earth, fresh rhizome, pounded and extracted juice can clear lung heat, remove blood stasis and nourish Yin and Blood.  The patient is characterized by high volume of pus-like sputum and fishy odor. Previously, the clinical treatment of pulmonary carbuncle was divided into epigastric period, pus-filled period, ulcerative period, and recovery period according to “The Essentials of the Golden Horoscope”. In addition to the application of Chinese medicine decoction, Chinese medicine intravenous drip is also a common treatment method. Commonly used drugs include bitter ginseng base injection, Shuanghuanglian powder injection, Qingkailing injection, and Andrographis injection. The combination of Chinese and Western medicine can shorten the treatment time, the patient recovers quickly and in good physical condition, and the efficacy is better than that of Chinese medicine alone, or Western medicine alone. The Chinese medicine decoction can be divided into the treatment in the attack phase and remission phase.  The treatment is to clear heat and eliminate blood stasis. The formula is Yinhua, Forsythia, Radix et Rhizoma, Salvia, Radix et Rhizoma, Radix et Rhizoma, Rutabaga, Job’s Tear, Green Peel, Antelope powder (punch). In remission: The patient still sometimes coughs and spits yellow phlegm, weakness, sweating, red tongue with thin yellow coating and slippery pulse. Treatment is to benefit the qi, strengthen the spleen, nourish the yin and resolve the stasis, the formula is to benefit the qi and resolve the stasis Tang Dang Shen, Astragalus, Angelica, Dan Shen, Sha Shen, Chuan Bei, Radix Platycodon, Scutellaria, Atractylodes), and taken continuously for more than six months. In addition, the amount of sputum can be given to more than ten raw soy beans chewed, conducive to the drainage of pus. During the remission period, fresh artichoke can be given to mash and take the juice to clear heat and dispel phlegm, and long-term use can prevent recurrence.  Food therapy also has some benefits: for example, take a domestic hen to remove its internal organs, plus Cordyceps can be used to remove the capsule shell (0.2100 capsules), astragalus, ginseng, (or ginseng 30 grams) sand nuts 60 grams each, cooked over moderate heat, eat chicken and drink soup, one every nine days after the winter solstice. Then, if the phlegm is not easy to cough up, early in the morning a fresh egg, walnut powder, sesame oil, honey, a small spoonful of each punch. The way to maintain normal physical strength in patients with stenosis is to insist on physical activity, which is of great significance to the recovery of patients.  In addition, the patient is instructed to breathe abdominally and contract the mouth. Patients first shrink their mouths like fish mouths and exhale, so that the abdominal muscles contract, increasing the intra-abdominal pressure, relaxing the diaphragm and moving the diaphragm upward, followed by nasal inhalation, the diaphragm contracting and descending, the abdominal muscles relaxing and the abdomen bulging. Through this deep and even abdominal breathing, the thoracic and abdominal breathing is coordinated to increase the inspiratory volume, reduce the respiratory rate, increase oxygenation, and improve the symptoms of shortness of breath. Respiratory muscles can also be exercised by increasing inspiratory port resistance with a respiratory resistance device. In addition, yoga (for young patients), qigong, breathing exercises, tai chi and other activities and exercises also play an important role in the prevention of respiratory muscle fatigue in patients with chronic bronchial expansion.  I believe that the indications for surgical lobectomy treatment should be strict, and I often see patients coughing up blood after surgery with new pulmonary lobar augmentation, which not only makes patients feel disappointed, but also at this time patients often have a significant decrease in physical fitness, so the attacks are frequent and difficult to control. Therefore, I believe that patients with frequent recurrent episodes and coughing up blood in large amounts confined to one lobe are the indications for surgery. In addition, patients with bleeding cancer and localized chronic ulcerative inflammatory bleeding need early surgery.