How to treat bronchiectasis in children

Speaking of bronchiectasis, I believe everyone is familiar with it, because in our daily life, many children or adolescents often suffer from this disease. This disease is a common clinical disease in the respiratory system. Its onset and course are relatively slow, so it is easy to be ignored by everyone. However, if the early stage condition is not actively treated, purulent inflammation is likely to spread, which will seriously harm your health.

Early bronchial lesions are mild and small in scope, and there may be no obvious physical signs. When the lesions are obvious, persistent moist rales can be heard at the site of the lesions, which may disappear temporarily after expectoration. About 1/3 of patients with long-term illness may develop clubbing. Repeated infection in patients can cause symptoms of systemic poisoning. There may be no fever in the early stage. However, when the secretions are not drained well and the inflammation spreads, causing pneumonia, lung abscess, pleurisy or empyema, the patient may have a high fever. Recurrent hemoptysis is a characteristic of this disease, accounting for about 50-75%. The amount of hemoptysis varies, ranging from blood in sputum to severe hemoptysis. Blood can spurt out rapidly, with the amount of bleeding reaching hundreds or even thousands of milliliters. After bleeding, blood vessel pressure decreases and contracts, and the bleeding can stop automatically.

Bronchiectasis has a slow onset and a long course, so it is easy to be ignored. If not treated actively, some patients with bronchiectasis may develop shortness of breath, cyanosis, pleurisy, empyema, pericarditis and lung abscess due to the spread of purulent inflammation in the surrounding lung tissue, or fibrosis, or a tendency to obstructive emphysema. Some patients with bronchiectasis may develop cor pulmonale, right heart failure, malnutrition, and physical weakness during the course of the disease.

Because the symptoms of bronchiectasis are very similar to those of a common cold and cough, it is easily ignored by parents in clinical practice and treated as a common cold. This can be very harmful to the patient's body, because if it is not diagnosed early and correctly, it will cause the disease to spread. Therefore, once early symptoms are found, you should go to the hospital for examination and treatment in time to avoid delaying the best treatment time and causing lifelong regrets.