To be honest, the first reaction: next time, I will never have a physical examination (stop! pinch this thought out for me), steady, don't mess around, and don't blindly use medicine
According to the latest statistics, 60%-80% of people will find "pulmonary nodules" when they examine chest CT.
The lungs are a respiratory organ, and dust, bacteria, viruses, tuberculosis, fungi, harmful gases, etc. in the air will first be "suppressed" by the immune system in the lungs, and in severe cases, they will produce symptoms. When the condition subsides, the lungs naturally leave scars like incisional scars, which is why most lung nodules occur (except for lung cancer nodules).
Although more and more people are being diagnosed with lung nodules, no more than 1% of them are eventually diagnosed with lung cancer. Don't panic, but it doesn't mean that you don't care, do you need to take medicine after finding out the lung nodules? These 1 conditions need to take medicine: inflammatory nodules (because of local inflammation of the lungs leading to the production of nodules), and there are recent symptoms of infection (such as fever, etc.), antibiotics should be used to control the infection.
▲Source: Tencent Medical Codex
Don't take medicine in these 3 situations: asymptomatic pulmonary nodules, pulmonary nodules with a diameter of less than 1 cm (90% of cases) whose cause cannot be determined, and suspected pulmonary tuberculosis nodules, such as tuberculosis globules. Active tuberculosis tends to present as patchy infiltrates of the lungs rather than nodular opacities, and the vast majority of pulmonary tuberculosis that present as nodules are solid, old, asymptomatic, and do not require antituberculous treatment.
▲ If there are such words in the report, wake up the spirit!
Didn't even look in front of you? Licking the dog guard on both knees to offer the provincial version:1. More pulmonary nodules were detected, and fewer carcinogenesis were detected2. Don't take medicine indiscriminately, listen to the doctor3. Review regularly
In case it is really suspected that it is malignant
Don't rush to the doctor
Don't believe in so-called home remedies or miracle medicines
Surgical excision
It is the current treatment of early malignant nodules
The best way
Source: Shenzhen Health Commission
Editor: Marlene
Review: Hao Lin