Can emphysema cause chest pain? Can emphysema cause swollen feet?

Hello, generally emphysema does not cause chest pain, generally it is emphysema complications that cause chest pain. Emphysema causes swollen feet in less common cases, but there is a chance that the feet will become swollen if emphysema causes failure.

If emphysema is severe, it can indeed cause chest pain; I think it causes swollen feet because our body organs are separate, but our body is a balanced whole.

It does cause chest pain; In severe cases, swollen feet may occur.

Emphysema is caused by chronic bronchitis after repeated infections of the respiratory tract, in the early stage of emphysema, there is only shortness of breath after activity, with the aggravation of emphysema, patients will have chest tightness, shortness of breath, and dyspnea after exertion or activity.

With the development of the disease, it will gradually lead to symptoms of chest tightness and shortness of breath when light activity, and in severe cases, there will be symptoms of wheezing when moving, unable to lie down, orthopnea, and with the aggravation of the disease, it will also develop into symptoms of pulmonary heart disease and heart failure.

Therefore, in order to make emphysema better, it is necessary to prevent respiratory tract infections, strengthen exercise, and improve the body's resistance in order to prolong life.

Advice for people with emphysema:

What are the current symptoms?

How old are you this year?

Did you have any previous tracheitis or asthma?

Do you have a cough, phlegm, chest tightness, shortness of breath, difficulty breathing?

When the weather is cold, the condition is aggravated, and if you have a cold, how many times will you have a seizure in a year? Has there been an increase in the number of seizures compared to before? Has the dose increased?

What tests have you done? Has it been diagnosed?

How is it at the moment? The result?

Emphysema can be caused by a variety of factors, such as obstructive emphysema, senile emphysema, compensatory emphysema, and the condition is not serious and needs to be analyzed on a case-by-case basis.

1.Obstructive emphysema: patients generally have a history of chronic diseases such as chronic bronchitis or bronchial asthma, and in the process of recurrence, the inflammatory response of the lungs can cause bronchial remodeling and stenosis, increased airway resistance, and air retention in the alveoli during the later stages of breathing, and an increase in residual air volume.

At this time, the situation is relatively serious, and long-term medication is required to control the condition. If the condition worsens, fever, increased sputum volume, inability to lie flat, wheezing, and edema of the lower extremities may be required, hospitalization may be required**.

2.Senile emphysema: With the increase of age, the elasticity of lung tissue gradually deteriorates, the residual volume increases, and the lung volume increases, resulting in the formation of emphysema, which is an age-related degenerative disease and an irreversible chronic process. If there are no obvious symptoms such as dyspnea, it can be temporarily distreated.

3.Compensated emphysema: there are empyema, pneumothorax, atelectasis, pneumonia and other diseases, the ventilatory capacity of the affected lung tissue is reduced, so that the healthy lungs swell, forming compensatory emphysema, this situation is generally after the active primary disease, can be returned to normal, generally does not need special treatment, the severity of the condition needs to be judged according to the primary disease.

When the patient has emphysema, it is necessary to go to a regular hospital for chest CT, lung function, blood routine and other related examinations, comprehensively analyze the condition, and actively **, so as not to delay the condition.

Emphysema is quite serious and can cause many complications: 1. Spontaneous pneumothorax: Spontaneous pneumothorax is not uncommon in patients with obstructive emphysema, mostly caused by the rupture of the subpleural lung and the leakage of air into the pleural space.

If the patient's basic lung function is poor, the pneumothorax is tension, even if the amount of gas is not large, the clinical manifestations are more severe, and it must be actively rescued and not taken lightly. Patients with emphysema have high lung field translucency, and often have large lung splendors, and the signs are not typical, which brings certain difficulties to the diagnosis of localized pneumothorax. 2. Respiratory failure

Obstructive emphysema often has severe impairment of respiratory function, and respiratory failure can be further aggravated by certain triggers such as respiratory tract infection, dry and retained secretions, inappropriate oxygen therapy, intravenous overdose, surgery, etc., and respiratory failure can be induced. 3. Chronic cor pulmonale: and right heart failure, hypoxemia, carbon dioxide retention, and alveolar capillary bed destruction, etc., can cause pulmonary hypertension.

During the compensatory phase of cardiac function, there are no signs of right heart failure. When respiratory lesions are further aggravated and arterial blood gases deteriorate, pulmonary artery pressure increases significantly, cardiac workload increases, and myocardial hypoxia and metabolic disorders can induce right heart failure. 4. Gastric ulcer:

Autopsy confirms that about 18% of patients with obstructive emphysema have gastric ulcers. The pathogenesis is not fully understood. 5. Sleep-disordered breathing:

Ventilation can be slightly reduced during sleep in normal people, but it is more pronounced in patients with obstructive emphysema during sleep. In particular, when the arterial partial pressure of oxygen is already low or so in the patient's awake state, it is more dangerous to further decrease during sleep. Patients have reduced sleep quality, arrhythmia and pulmonary hypertension.

Emphysema must be actively treated, can not be delayed, the disease itself is not easy to treat, the disease can be treated in both Chinese and Western, but the Western medicine is large, and it will also produce dependence, it is still recommended that patients use traditional Chinese medicine, such as swelling and lung soup, the effect is relatively good.

The symptoms of emphysema depend on its severity, in the early stage, it may be asymptomatic, or only feel shortness of breath during labor and strenuous activity, and as the emphysema progresses, the degree of dyspnea will worsen, so that the slightest activity will feel obvious breathing suffocation, accompanied by fatigue, weight loss, loss of appetite, upper abdominal distention, cough, sputum production and other symptoms. The anteroposterior diameter of the chest is larger than that of normal people, and the chest is barrel-shaped, with weakened respiratory movements and widened intercostal space, which is a common clinical symptom in patients with emphysema. ** Aminophylline, doxofylline and other bronchial dilation, and if the symptoms cannot be relieved, nebulized inhalation of ipratropium, albuterol, budesonide and other hormonal drugs to relieve tracheal spasm symptoms.

If there is an infection, oral expectorant drugs, such as acetylcysteine tablets, or oral antibiotics, such as levofloxacin, cephalosporins, etc.** Lung infection, oxygen is also required**.

What to say about emphysema, I think it's quite serious, breathing difficulties or something, it affects your health very much, and you must treat it in time. And this disease is a chronic disease, but also relatively stubborn, even to the hospital there is no particularly good way, doctors mostly recommend the use of Chinese medicine to slowly recuperate, in fact, it can only be like this, if you use Western medicine for a long time, there will be dependence, there will be a lot of ***. Emphysema can be treated with traditional Chinese medicine.

Cleanse the lungs. Soup, this is better for emphysema. Good luck soon**!

Hello friends, don't worry, this case of emphysema is not serious, it is okay.

What is emphysema? Is it serious? Listen to Dr. Fan Jiang from the Department of Thoracic Surgery of Shanghai First People's Hospital tell you about popular science!

Emphysema usually occurs in patients who have been smoking for a long time, or who have a history of recurrent asthma, and can develop emphysema if it is not particularly well controlled.

Of course, there are some special jobs, and more dust exposure may also induce emphysema. Its severity is not simply emphysema, it depends on our lung function to make a judgment to see what level of lung function it is.

If there is a mild emphysema, most people may not have many symptoms and it does not affect the quality of daily life. If the lung function is relatively low, especially if there is a situation of respiratory failure, the patient's quality of life is very poor, the difficulty of breathing is more obvious, the activity tolerance is also reduced, and the hypoxia is more serious, at this time, long-term medication or auxiliary means are needed.

Advice for people with emphysema:

As a doctor, it is recommended that you do not miss the best stage, early detection, early detection, patients can choose to carry out in the comment area according to the following questions, I will be the first time to combine my own clinical experience and medicine to understand your condition and answer for you, I hope it can help you!

What are the current symptoms?

How old are you this year?

Did you have any previous tracheitis or asthma?

Do you have a cough, phlegm, chest tightness, shortness of breath, difficulty breathing?

When the weather is cold, the condition is aggravated, and if you have a cold, how many times will you have a seizure in a year? Has there been an increase in the number of seizures compared to before? Has the dose increased?

What tests have you done? Has it been diagnosed?

How is it at the moment? The result?

The foot of a patient with emphysema is swollen because the emphysema has progressed to the stage of pulmonary heart disease, which is already a cor pulmonale, and it is necessary to go to the hospital as soon as possible, and then make corresponding adjustments.

Cor pulmonale and edema of the lower extremities, at first glance, do not seem to be related. In fact, they are inextricably linked. In the early stages of cor pulmonale, swelling of the lower extremities is rare.

The symptoms of edema are mainly due to the poor pulmonary circulation caused by chronic lesions such as the lungs, thoracic cage or pulmonary artery vessels, and the increase in pulmonary circulation resistance, which in turn causes the pressure in the pulmonary artery to increase, and the heart needs to shoot blood from the right ventricle into the pulmonary artery, which will naturally cause the right ventricle to compensate for hypertrophy and thickening, and the heart will be overloaded for a long time, which will eventually lead to the heart "unable to do it" and the right heart failure.

When there is right heart failure, heart congestion and high pressure will inevitably lead to obstruction of systemic circulation, unobstructed blood flow, peripheral venous congestion, and then increase the pressure in the capillaries, seep out of the blood vessel wall and appear edema. The lower extremities are located in the lowest part of the body, and it is more difficult for the lower extremities to return blood to the heart than other parts, so the congestion of the lower extremities is more obvious, so the soft tissue edema of the lower extremities is the first, especially in the feet, medial and anterior cavities.

When a patient with cor pulmonale has heart failure, the edema is often symmetrical, and when pressed, the edema will sink deeply, resembling a "dimple". In severe cases, generalized edema may develop, and sometimes pleural effusion, which is more common on the right side, and more common on the right side if it is unilateral, and ascites may be more obvious in severe cases.

As a large amount of water is retained in the tissues, the blood that flows naturally through the kidneys is reduced, and less water is excreted, and urine is naturally reduced.

However, not all patients with cor pulmonale develop edema. Generally speaking, patients without cardiac insufficiency do not have edema symptoms, but if there is malnutrition, or if there is liver and kidney dysfunction, edema may still occur, and in this case, the patient should seek medical attention in time to check for hypoproteinemia and abnormal liver and kidney function. In the early stage of the disease, most patients often do not take it seriously, or judge the disease according to some of their own performance, and take the way of buying medicine and eating it themselves, which often leads to the consequence of "taking the wrong medicine and treating the wrong disease", leading to the aggravation of the disease and even inducing other diseases.

If the nutrition keeps up, the daily activity is normal, and if you are not bedridden for a long time, you should see if it is puffy or red? If the edema of the lower extremities may be due to nephrogenic edema!

Hello. Has the emphysema progressed to the stage of cor pulmonale? Did you go to the hospital for a diagnosis? In general, swollen feet are a late manifestation of chronic cor pulmonale. After right-sided heart failure due to pulmonary decompensation, patients may develop swollen feet.

For patients with cor pulmonale, there are several ways to care for them.

1. Actively control the primary disease.

Cor pulmonale generally develops from old and slow bronchi, emphysema, and bronchiectasis. Active control of these conditions is no longer acute.

2. Control respiratory tract infections. Respiratory infections are a common cause of respiratory failure and heart failure and need to be controlled aggressively. Patients usually have phlegm in their body, causing a cough all day long, and can be used to help with physical phlegm.

On the one hand, the presence of sputum blocks the airway and affects ventilation, on the other hand, it destroys lung tissue and causes bronchiole stenosis, and on the other hand, it can also breed bacteria and secondary infection. Therefore, expectoration is very important for people with lung disease.

3. Exhaust. When emphysema progresses to the stage of cor pulmonale, patients generally experience severe hypoxia and carbon dioxide retention. A large amount of carbon dioxide in the lungs makes it difficult for oxygen to enter, and the patient is hypoxic; Carbon dioxide can also flow back into the bloodstream, causing coma and carbon dioxide anesthesia, also known as hypercapnia.

In severe cases, respiratory failure may occur. So exhaust is also necessary. To the simple clear lung instrument to discharge phlegm and gas.

4. Inhale oxygen to control heart failure. Oxygen is also necessary. If the patient is hypoxic, it will directly lead to respiratory failure, organ failure throughout the body.