Symptoms of damp-heat obstruction

Dampness and heat is a common phenomenon in modern life. It causes great harm to people's health and can cause extremely serious internal problems. Therefore, we must take the problem of dampness and heat seriously and actively seek solutions. Damp-heat obstruction in the middle of the body is a relatively difficult disease to diagnose, which has caused headaches for countless doctors. Let’s take a look at how to diagnose the symptoms of damp-heat obstruction in the middle of the body.

Dampness-blocking disease has a slow onset and lasts for a long time. Most people develop the disease in summer and gradually improve in autumn. Typical clinical manifestations are heaviness, stuffiness, dullness, greasyness and wetness. Heavy means heaviness in the limbs, stuffy means fullness in the abdomen, dull means loss of appetite, and greasy means sticky and greasy mouth coating. The patient feels sticky and uncomfortable in the mouth, tasteless or sweet. He or she is usually not thirsty. Some may also have dry and bitter mouth, but are thirsty without wanting to drink, or only want to rinse with water without swallowing. The tongue coating is always greasy, either white, yellow, or a combination of white and yellow. Ru means the pulse is moist.

【diagnosis】

1. The disease occurs in humid areas such as the south of the Yangtze River and coastal areas, and occurs during the summer rainy season.

2. The onset is slow, the disease is lingering and the course is long. The diseased area is fixed and does not move.

3. The main symptoms are heavy limbs, fullness and stuffiness in the abdomen, sluggish appetite, greasy tongue coating, and weak pulse.

4. Laboratory physical and chemical examinations showed that various indicators were generally within the normal range, with no evidence of organic changes.

Differential diagnosis

Dampness-blocking disease should be mainly differentiated from damp-heat disease. They have similarities in many aspects such as the sensitivity to pathogenic dampness, season of onset, clinical symptoms, and duration of illness, but they are different diseases and must be differentiated. Although damp-heat disease also occurs in summer and has symptoms such as heaviness and pain in the body, and chest and abdominal distension, damp-heat belongs to the category of febrile diseases. The pathogenic factors are mainly summer dampness and damp heat. The symptoms are severe fever and lingering. The pathological changes begin to linger in the Qi, and then spread to the Ying and blood, with more complications and more severe conditions. The main cause of dampness-obstruction disease is dampness, and the main symptoms are spleen and stomach dysfunction. The fever is not severe or even absent. The condition is much milder than damp-heat disease, and generally no transmission or changes in symptoms will occur.