What should I pay attention to in the early stage of pneumonia?

Pneumonia is an inflammation of lung parenchyma, which is often an acute infection of lung caused by pneumococcus or other pathogens. Its main clinical symptoms are chills, high fever, cough, rust in sputum, consolidation of chest and lung, and obvious increase of total white blood cells. X-ray examination shows that the lung is characterized by a large area of uniform density shadow. The lung is an organ that communicates with the outside world and the only way for blood circulation in the body. Therefore, various pathogenic factors inside and outside the body can cause various inflammatory changes in the lungs. Pneumonia is a common and frequently-occurring disease. Almost all people will suffer from one or more kinds of pneumonia in their lifetime. Most people with acute respiratory infections have viral and bacterial pneumonia.

There are two kinds of popular classification of pneumonia in clinic, namely anatomical classification and etiological classification. Anatomical classification can be divided into lobar pneumonia, bronchial pneumonia and interstitial pneumonia. According to etiological classification, it can be divided into bacterial pneumonia, viral pneumonia, mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia and rickettsia pneumonia, accounting for almost half of all pneumonia.

Generally speaking, according to the different causes of the disease, Streptococcus pneumoniae is common in young and middle-aged infants and elderly patients. Children with Streptococcus pyogenes pneumonia are often complicated with adult measles and whooping cough, and staphylococcal pneumonia is common in hospital environment, which is often caused by inadequate prevention and disinfection work or abuse of antibiotics. Pneumonia is more common in men over 40 years old with alcoholism or chronic diseases. It can be cured after treatment. No sequelae.

Dietary principle

1. Do not eat spicy, irritating or cold hard food, such as onion, leek, garlic, pepper, etc., when you have a high fever or just after a high fever.

2. People with high fever, cough and other phlegm-heat should not eat greasy and fried foods, such as fat meat, fried products and sweets. The diet is mainly fruits, fresh vegetables and bean products.

3. Those who have poor appetite during high fever should use light and soft liquids or drinks, such as lotus root starch, fruit juice and rice porridge.

Diet prescription selection

1 .reed rhizome 30g, chrysanthemum10g. Decoct soup instead of tea Suitable for pneumonia, high fever, dry mouth, cough and yellow phlegm.

2. 50 grams of gypsum and 30 grams of reed root. Decoct in water, remove residue, add 50g of japonica rice, cook porridge as usual, and take it twice. Suitable for pneumonia, high fever, sweating dryness, cough with yellow phlegm.

3. 50 grams of gypsum, tofu 1 piece. Put tofu on gypsum, put some rock sugar, steam for half an hour, and drink tofu dew instead of water. Suitable for patients with high fever, dry mouth, cough and chest pain.

4. 30 grams of mung beans, 30 grams of rice kernels and 6 grams of mint. Mint is decocted in water to get juice, and mung beans and rice kernels are washed. Soak mung beans in boiling water, cook them half-cooked, and then cook them with rice kernels. After cooking, add mint water and add a little rock sugar. Take it in three times. It is suitable for patients with high fever or cough, chest pain, yellow phlegm and dry mouth after fever.

5. 50 grams of water chestnut powder, beat the powder into a thin paste with water, soak it in boiling water, and add a little sugar instead of cooking porridge. It is suitable for patients with insufficient body fluid, dry mouth and loss of appetite in the late stage of pneumonia.