I have given up smoking for some time. I have been smoking for three years. I want to go to the hospital to wash my lungs. Is washing the lungs hurting the lungs?

Zhang Yingming: Director and Chief Physician of Lung Lavage Center of Nanjing Chest Hospital. He has been engaged in the clinical work of respiratory medicine for 20 years, specializing in the clinical diagnosis and treatment of chest tumors and occupational lung diseases, focusing on the clinical application research of large-capacity whole lung lavage in pulmonary department and the research of hyperthermia technology for chest tumors, and was listed as the reserve personnel of "industry and technology discipline leader" in Nanjing.

Lung lavage is not only used to treat some patients with difficult lung diseases, but also suitable for years of severe "heavy smokers". However, it should be reminded that smokers who want to recover their innocence through lung washing must make up their minds to quit smoking in order to do so. In the lung lavage center of Nanjing Chest Hospital, some smokers who want to achieve health care by lung lavage will be discouraged by doctors, because the purpose of lung lavage is to treat diseases, not to boost the "morale" of smokers.

So, can lung lavage be counted as "health care"? Director Zhang Yingming emphasized that lung lavage, as a highly specialized new medical technology, is a means to treat diseases, not a health care technology. This kind of medical equipment and intraoperative first aid measures require "high standard" lavage, which is not available in street clinics. For example, during lung lavage, if the temperature of lavage fluid is "not up to standard" or postoperative nursing measures are not in place, these seemingly subtle details are very likely to make patients "unable to wake up".

Director Zhang told reporters that although large-capacity whole lung lavage is suitable for a wide range of diseases, not everyone can do it. When there are huge pulmonary bullae, severe emphysema, cor pulmonale, active pulmonary tuberculosis and recent history of hemoptysis and pneumothorax; Or suffering from cardiovascular diseases, hematological diseases or organic diseases such as liver, kidney and brain; Or the trachea and main bronchus are deformed, which hinders the correct placement of double-lumen bronchial intubation. In addition, even the adaptive patients who can receive large-volume whole lung lavage should go to the hospital for examination before operation, and the professional doctor will decide whether the patients can tolerate this operation.

According to the reporter, the cost of large-capacity whole lung lavage surgery is about 5000 ~ 7000 yuan, and patients need to be hospitalized for observation for about 2 ~ 3 weeks.