Abstract: No minor diseases in lung diseases!
The lungs are the most important hematopoietic organs in life, and they are also important respiratory organs in the human body to complete gas exchange and meet the oxygen needs of various organs in the body to maintain human life activities.
A healthy ordinary person can hold his breath for 30 seconds to 2 minutes or so, but when a person does not breathe for a long time, it will cause the heart to stop beating, once the heart stops beating for 5 minutes, it will cause irreversible damage to the brain, and people will become often said to be vegetative people. Therefore, the lungs that govern human breathing play a vital role in our life activities!
However, in recent years, lung cancer has been promoted to the continent's largest cancer, the latest WHO data shows: the mainland in 2020 new cases of lung cancer 820,000, the number of deaths as high as 710,000, which means that almost every 1 minute there is a Chinese due to lung cancer and death, and its mortality and incidence continue to increase, has become the highest incidence of many cancers, the highest incidence of cancer.
However, most lung cancer patients are often advanced by the time of diagnosis, because the early symptoms are somewhat similar to respiratory diseases, which are easy to ignore, and different lung cancer treatment options are different. Therefore, be sure to understand the early symptoms and achieve early detection and early treatment!
If the lungs are not good, the head will have early warning signs, and 6 symptoms indicate that you are going to seek medical treatment!
Lung cancer has always been called "silent cancer", because there is no distribution of pain nerves in the lungs, once the lungs are sick, it is difficult to detect, but some special lung diseases, or there can be some early symptoms more obvious.
headache
In general, the incidence of brain metastasis in tumors is 3.5 to 10%, of which lung cancer brain metastasis is the most common. When lung cancer develops to brain metastases, symptoms such as headache and epilepsy will occur early, and signs such as aphasia, ataxia, and hemiplegia will occur depending on the location of the lesion.
Fever in the head
Lung cancer patients develop symptoms of persistent low-grade fever in the early stages, the temperature hovers between 37-38 degrees Celsius, and as the condition continues to worsen, the symptoms of head fever will continue to worsen. About 20%-30% of lung cancer patients in the mainland will take fever as the first symptom to the hospital for final diagnosis, and when the necrosis of tumor tissue is absorbed by the body, it will cause cancer fever; when the tumor tissue continues to grow in the body, expanding and causing bronchial openings and lung lobe blockage, it will cause head fever. This fever can be replaced by antibiotics to reduce the fever, but the condition will be repeated.
Unilateral eyelid drooping
The tip of the lung is located in an important sympathetic plexus in the body, and when the lesion has reached the tip of the lung, it will compress the sympathetic nerve, resulting in symptoms of nerve loss. Typical of these symptoms include droopy eyelids and miosis. This symptom, also known clinically as Horner syndrome, is a typical symptom of pointed lung cancer.
Facial wasting
When the cancer cells develop to a certain extent, they will frantically absorb the nutrients in the human body, and the cancer patients will also be affected by the appetite of the lesions, and most of the nutrients of the human body will be plundered by the cancer cells, which will cause the patient's body to be malnourished and emaciated, especially the face is more obvious.
The right side of the face is red
What we know is that people only get sports or probably blush when they're embarrassed, but these are bilateral blushes. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, the right side of the person's face corresponds to the body's lung organs, and if the right face is red for a long time, it may be that the lung has been diseased.
Persistent cough
Coughing up sputum is the most common presenting symptom of lung cancer. Cough accounts for 35-75% of the first symptoms, sputum production accounts for about 30% of the first symptoms, lung cancer caused by cough is generally irritating dry cough, taking drugs can not alleviate. Due to the abundant blood supply in the tissue of the lesion and the weak texture, cancer cells are prone to invade the trachea or tumors to compress the trachea. It is easy to cause blood vessel bursts at the same time as a severe cough, so patients will also have frequent symptoms of coughing up sputum with blood streaks.
In addition to the above head symptoms, lung cancer can also cause patients with hoarseness, chest pain, weight loss, chest tightness and shortness of breath, etc., in fact, lung cancer symptoms appear in the head is not typical. However, the above symptoms of the body may also be caused by other reasons, so once the body is found to be abnormal, it is necessary to try to quickly seek medical examination in order to respond in time.
How is lung cancer determined?
Early detection and early diagnosis are the key to lung cancer treatment!
Because the early symptoms of lung cancer are not obvious, most patients are found to be accidentally discovered during the physical examination when they find worn glass shadows and nodules in the lungs. When patients have chest pain, weight loss, coughing up blood and other symptoms to seek medical treatment, at this time, almost 7-80% have developed to the middle and late stages, which increases the difficulty and burden of treatment and prognosis of patients.
Only in the early detection and scientific diagnosis and treatment, more than 90% can be cured. So, how do you detect early lung cancer?
Regular screening has always been an important means of cancer prevention! Clinically, low-dose spiral CT is set as the "gold standard" for screening lung cancer, through which 85% of early peripheral lung cancers can be found, and the sensitivity of screening to lung cancer is 4 to 10 times that of conventional chest x-ray tests. Low-dose spiral CT can detect lung abnormalities in time without bringing too much radiation to the human body. It should be noted that lung cancer early screening is not an "exclusive means" for the smoking army, in addition to smoking groups, some high-risk groups should also pay attention to the need for regular physical examinations.
Tobacco is one of the important causes of the high incidence of lung cancer, in addition to tobacco, age, environmental air pollution, kitchen fumes, familial inheritance and long-term occupational exposure are all high-risk elements that induce lung cancer. Low-dose spiral CT is recommended once a year for high-risk groups and at least once for non-high-risk groups. If the test result is negative, CT may not be done every year.
1. People under 50 years old can be checked once every 5 to 10 years;
2. For people aged 50 to 60, it is recommended to conduct an examination once every 5 years;
3. People aged 60 to 70 years old, the interval is 2 to 3 years.
However, the specific screening frequency should still be carried out according to the guidance of professional doctors, do not blindly check a large number of examinations, otherwise it will also bring a burden to physical and mental health.
Write at the end:
Cancer comes, many times in unexpected circumstances. Therefore, in the daily life work must pay attention to the body, and timely find physical health abnormalities, once the occurrence of the best timely medical diagnosis, save coping time!