Three essentials mainly mean, first, to enrich protein's food, such as fish, poultry, eggs, lean meat and other high-quality protein food, which can effectively improve the basic physique of the human body; Secondly, we should insist on taking enough vitamins to keep the vitamins in the body in a balanced state, especially vitamins A and C, which is very beneficial to the repair of alveolar epithelial cell damage; Third, drink more water. Sufficient water can make the sputum in a diluted state and can be discharged actively when coughing.
Third, don't be stingy, don't eat spicy and irritating food, these foods are easy to stimulate the proliferation of airway secretions, resulting in thick sputum, difficult to cough up, and sometimes even increase the risk of infection. Don't eat things that are too hot or too cold, which will cause gastrointestinal discomfort, such as coffee, tea and cola. Don't eat hard food.
Usually, active cough can increase the expectoration ability of respiratory tract. We know that patients with chronic bronchitis, their respiratory tract self-clearing phlegm ability is weak. With the recurrence of inflammation, bronchi will cause certain degree of stenosis and atrophy of smooth muscle around bronchi, which will lead to the decrease of expectorant function. In this case, patients should do some active and conscious coughing, which can promote the elimination of sputum. At the same time, in the morning, when the air is fine.
Doing some deep breathing exercises will easily stimulate patients to expectorate.
You can also do some exercises to strengthen your breathing and actively prevent complications. For example, abdominal breathing, lip contraction breathing, etc., are all helpful to improve lung function and promote the elimination of sputum. Doing breathing exercises in places with fresh air and good ventilation is also helpful to improve the function of expectoration. Secondly, at the source, we should also try to avoid catching a cold and minimize the increase of sputum caused by the respiratory tract. At the same time, the surrounding air should also be disinfected, especially in spring and winter festivals, when there are many flu, you can steam and smoke with vinegar. When the weather is too cold and the climate changes suddenly, we should also pay attention to increasing clothes to prevent catching cold and keep warm. Some preventive measures should also be taken for respiratory tract infection, such as flu vaccination in flu season and streptococcus pneumoniae vaccination for the elderly, which will help reduce the occurrence of infection.
The most important thing for smokers is to give up smoking. If the air pollution in the surrounding living environment is serious, we should try our best to avoid such an environment, so that mucus and secretions in the airway will be reduced, and expectoration will be easier to cough up, thus reducing the resistance of the respiratory tract.
The attack of chronic bronchitis is often frequent and stubborn. In order to achieve better cure and control, we must be very careful, reduce the possibility of attack in all links and reduce the production of airway secretions, in order to achieve better therapeutic effects.
Some better Chinese medicines also help to clear away heat and resolve phlegm. If necessary, the patient can try under the guidance of a doctor.