Coughing every day without treatment: Chest doctor: Your trachea is scabbing

In the recent polluted and humid weather, more and more people are visiting allergy clinics, but the question also arises: "I am not asthmatic, why do you say I am asthmatic?" When you hear the name asthma, your first impression may be the sound of breathing, or the wheezing sound of being unable to breathe. But in fact, the more common symptom of asthma is "cough". As long as the cough persists for a long time, your trachea is actually inflamed. Asthma does not necessarily mean "panting"

Because the word "pan" in asthma, and in TV dramas, it is often said that "people with asthma will suddenly be out of breath and need to "suck" a dilator to avoid death. "This kind of plot has caused it to be misunderstood that only when you are "wheezing" or "breathing is not smooth", you are "wheezing", and other times it is fine.

But in fact, the most common symptom of asthma is not wheezing, but "coughing". Qiu Guoqin, deputy director of Luodong Boai Hospital, said that asthma is an allergic reaction that can cause chronic inflammation of the bronchus; the feeling is the same as inflammation of a skin wound, which will be red, swollen, and secrete tissue fluid. The trachea of ??asthma patients is a chronic inflammation of the bronchi. This is an inflammatory state, so you will feel phlegm, want to cough, and eventually become difficulty breathing. Caption/Qiu Guoqin, deputy director of Luodong Pok Oi Hospital, said that asthma is an allergic reaction.

Because the trachea is very fragile, every cold will last for more than 10 days. Not only will you cough all the time, but you will also feel weak and unable to breathe. Even on ordinary days when I don’t have a cold, I usually have the trouble of coughing at night, or the cough will be intermittent during the day and last for several weeks or more. When exercising, even if the intensity of the exercise is moderate, you will feel a special wheezing sound. big.

What exactly is asthma?

Asthma is an allergic reaction that causes chronic inflammation of the bronchial tubes, which causes the bronchial tubes to become red, swollen, hot and painful. Therefore, the symptoms are diverse and not just "wheezing".

How to tell if you may have asthma: coughing intermittently for more than 3 weeks, coughing at night, each cold lasting more than 10 days, often feeling short of breath, wheezing, and allergic constitution.

Symptoms: Cough, night cough, chest tightness, phlegm, wheezing, whistling sound in breathing, difficulty breathing, and difficulty breathing.

Peak onset period: 10 to 14 years old, and 65 years old.

Groups prone to the disease: people with allergies, family history of allergies or asthma, and living in places with many allergens. If there are no symptoms of asthma, don’t treat it until you find it has scabs!

However, in the eyes of ordinary people, these symptoms are probably "asymptomatic". But Qiu Guoqin said that as long as this sensitive and inflamed trachea encounters a wound, it will shrink in pain just like a cut that has not yet healed. As a result, the trachea will shrink, causing difficulty in breathing. It becomes what most people think of as an “asthma attack.” Photo file ID: 1126463523

"Although when a major attack occurs, most people will take medicine obediently, but when the symptoms subside, the medicine will stop." Qiu Guoqin said that during the repair process of the trachea, it is like Skin wounds are the same as scabs, but if the trachea remains inflamed, the scabs will become thicker and thicker. However, the skin tissue will regenerate and the scabs will fall off, but the trachea will not, so as time goes by, the trachea will become thicker and thicker. It became harder and harder, and finally it had no elasticity at all, and I couldn't breathe smoothly.

Fu Bingui, director of the Intensive Care Unit of Taichung Veterans General Hospital, said that the current problem with asthma treatment is that people are too afraid of "steroids." Some people are unwilling to use steroids, so they just spray dilators, but asthma is like a fire, and dilators are like water. They can only extinguish the fire, while steroids can remove all flammable materials and prevent fires from happening again. Caption/Director of the Respiratory Intensive Care Unit of Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Fu Bingui, said that the current problem with asthma treatment is that people are too afraid of "steroids."

Moreover, the hardening of the trachea will not recover. If you do not want to use inhaled steroids without treatment, it will eventually develop into tracheal fibrosis. Instead, you will have to take oral steroids at a dose that is 100 times higher. Breathe well yourself.

However, Fu Bingui said that of course not everyone needs to use steroid drugs every day, but these issues should be discussed with a doctor instead of stopping the medication on your own, otherwise in the air pollution era, you may cough at any time. to cause more serious illness.