What aspects does anti-infection treatment for lung cancer include

Anti-infection treatment during lung cancer treatment belongs to the category of supportive treatment. Supportive treatment refers to the treatment of other symptoms or side effects that occur during disease treatment. For example, the above-mentioned anti-infection treatment for lung cancer patients should include antibacterial treatment, antifungal treatment, and should be combined with expectorant treatment, as follows:

1. Antifungal treatment: Since lung cancer patients are consumed by tumors for a long time, their bodies are relatively weak, which leads to weakened body defenses and immune dysfunction, making them very susceptible to bacterial infections. Furthermore, after admission to the hospital, they need to undergo surgical treatment, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, immunotherapy and other anti-tumor treatments, which will greatly increase the chances of bacterial infection in patients.

Although the use of broad-spectrum antibiotics may be effective in the early stages, long-term use can lead to drug resistance. Therefore, general anti-infection treatments are often not ideal. At this time, allergy tests are generally conducted on patients to select drugs with high sensitivity rates in drug sensitivity tests, and other treatment measures are combined to solve the problem.

2. Antifungal treatment: There are roughly three ways for lung cancer patients to be infected with fungi, namely endogenous infection, exogenous infection and secondary infection. Common pathogens are Candida, Aspergillus and Cryptococcus, which can be transmitted through the respiratory tract, medical contact, etc.

At this time, treatment should take into account the patient's clinical condition and choose sensitive antifungal drugs.

3. Expectorant treatment: The purpose of the first two treatments is to "cure the root cause", that is, to eliminate the source of infection, while expectorant treatment is to "treat the symptoms", eliminating adverse symptoms such as cough and sputum caused by infection.

Expectorant treatment is mostly drug therapy, which can be taken orally or sprayed. At the same time, patients should be reminded to cough up the phlegm in their mouths.