As the weather gets hotter, many people have turned on air conditioning. However, while enjoying the coolness brought by air conditioners, we should also be alert to diseases that may be blown out by air conditioners, especially Respiratory disease.
Doctor prescribes prescription for patients with asthma attacks: wash air conditioning
Ms. Zhang from Hangzhou, Zhejiang, suffers from allergic asthma. Recently, according to her introduction, she did not come into contact with allergens, but her asthma attacks occur as soon as she returns home. After ruling out the triggering factors, the doctor believes that this may be related to her operating air conditioning at home. After Ms. Zhang went home to clean the air conditioning, her asthma stopped on the same day.
Chen Ye, Deputy Director of the Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University: Many asthma patients have an attack in summer for one reason: indoor air conditioners (improper use), one is the stimulation of cold air, the other is that there will be many pathogenic microorganisms after long-term use of air conditioners.
Improving Health Awareness and Increasing the Business Volume of Air Conditioning Seasonal Cleaning
Nowadays, many people are using air conditioning like Ms. Zhang. In Shenzhen, Guangdong, there has been a significant increase in the number of air conditioning cleaning orders. According to the person in charge of a certain home appliance cleaning company, the total orders from March to May this year have doubled compared to the same period last year.
Mr. Chen, a citizen of Shenzhen, Guangdong: Every basin of water comes out in black. I knew it really needed to be cleaned, otherwise these things would keep circulating inside the house and even enter your respiratory tract and lungs.
Cold air and pathogenic microorganisms can easily induce allergic asthma
Experts introduce that asthma, also known as "bronchial asthma", is a chronic inflammatory disease of the airways, characterized by recurrent wheezing, chest tightness, and sometimes dry cough.
Xiao Yi, Chief physician of the Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine of Peking Union Medical College Hospital: According to epidemiological statistics, the prevalence rate of bronchial asthma is still very high, about 4.2%, that is, there are 4.2 bronchial asthma patients among 100 patients.
Allergic asthma is the most common type of asthma. About 60% of adult asthma and 80% of pediatric asthma belong to allergic asthma. After entering summer, improper use of air conditioning provides the main indoor allergen for allergic asthma.
Wan Jun, Deputy Director of the Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine of Beijing Anzhen Hospital: For example, for patients with COPD and asthma, if they are frequently and excessively exposed to this cold air, they can completely lead to the acute attack of asthma and the acute exacerbation of COPD.
Xiao Yi, Chief physician of the Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine of Peking Union Medical College Hospital: The air conditioner is not clean inside, so some special allergic substances may stimulate it, or the decoration environment may induce the onset of bronchial asthma. Cold drinks can also have cold stimulation.
Symptomatic treatment for persistent cough
Recently, many people will cough for a long time after they are infected with A, B or Common cold, but attention should be paid to distinguish the types of Symptomatic treatment. According to experts, about one third of chronic cough patients are actually cough variant asthma, which is easily misdiagnosed as cold or chronic bronchitis.
Xiao Yi, Chief physician of the Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine of Peking Union Medical College Hospital: Cough variant asthma is characterized by chronic cough, which is its only symptom. It may be more pronounced at night or in the morning, and the treatment for bronchial asthma is actually the same.
Pay attention to lung function testing, don't let the lungs "endure humiliation"
Experts suggest that when symptoms similar to asthma appear, one should go to a regular hospital for examination as soon as possible. Pulmonary function examination is the most commonly used examination for diagnosing and evaluating the condition of asthma.
Wan Jun, Deputy Director of the Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine of Beijing Anzhen Hospital: Compared with the heart and the head, we say that the lungs have always endured hardship and humiliation. Why? Because the lungs have a large volume and strong compensatory ability, if there are any small problems, they may not show up. Therefore, we also call for more care for the lungs.
