What to do with pleural effusion in children

Pleural effusion is actually a harmful disease. Of course, once a patient has pleural effusion, he or she often has various uncomfortable symptoms. Must go for cough and difficulty breathing. At this time, any reason can cause water to accumulate in the patient's pleural cavity. In fact, as long as there is too much fluid, it is pleural effusion. Patients with pleural effusion often have uncomfortable symptoms. What should we do if children have pleural effusion?

The following are common clinical cases: 1. Infectious pleural effusion: mostly serous or purulent, such as (1) tuberculous pleurisy or tuberculous empyema. (2) Nonspecific infectious pleurisy. (3) Fungal pleurisy. (4) Parasitic infections such as paragonimiasis, amoebiasis, filariasis, etc. 2. Tumorous pleural effusion: mostly bloody, lung cancer is the most common, and the other type is pleural tumors such as malignant mesothelioma. 3. Transudative pleural effusion: more common in cirrhosis, heart failure, kidney disease, etc. 4. Rheumatic diseases and allergic diseases: more common in systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatic fever, and eosinophilic pleurisy. To determine the type of pleural effusion your mother has, the doctor needs to make a correct judgment and give the correct treatment based on her medical history, symptoms, signs and relevant laboratory tests. If it is not very serious, conservative treatment will be used, such as taking or injecting antibiotics and waiting for it to be absorbed on its own. It is a minor operation, go to the hospital for closed drainage, the effect will be immediate, but there is a possibility of recurrence.

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Whether closed drainage will recur does not depend on the drainage method used. The presence of stagnant water is due to the presence and activity of tuberculosis. If tuberculosis is stably controlled, it will not recur after drainage. It mainly depends on the control and treatment of tuberculosis. Drainage is actually a helpless practice, but it is very necessary. If the water can be absorbed by itself during conservative treatment, then drainage can be avoided. If it cannot be absorbed, drainage must be used. In fact, drainage is also a very small operation, thoracentesis. There is no need for treatment of pleural effusion. The point is to pump water and not pump water. The rest of the parts are the same. Drug chemotherapy. Is Chinese medicine effective? If it is a Western doctor, Chinese medicine does not have much effect on tuberculosis. If it is a Chinese medicine doctor, he will suggest you to use a combination of Chinese and Western treatment methods, because all the treatment methods mentioned in Chinese medicine are to awaken the body's self-healing ability.

Western medicine chemotherapy kills bacteria by helping the body kill tuberculosis bacteria. The purpose of traditional Chinese medicine is to regulate the body's immune system and achieve the purpose of self-sterilization.

Warm reminder: Once there is pleural effusion, further treatment is actually needed. Of course, don't just use Western medicine casually. Because once Western medicine is used for a long time, patients with pleural effusion will often develop drug resistance. So you need to go to a big hospital for treatment. And comprehensive treatment is needed.