This is what a negative Mycoplasma pneumoniae antibody means

Many people do not understand what a negative Mycoplasma pneumoniae antibody test means, and always think they have an incurable disease. In fact, a negative Mycoplasma pneumoniae antibody test means that you have not contracted the disease, but have only suffered from a common respiratory infection. You can recover with simple anti-inflammatory, expectorant, and cough suppressant treatments.

1. What does negative Mycoplasma pneumoniae antibody mean?

I believe many people will have this question, what does a negative Mycoplasma pneumoniae antibody mean? In fact, mycoplasma negative means no mycoplasma infection. It is a common upper respiratory tract infection and can be treated with anti-inflammatory and cough and expectorant.

It generally indicates mild nasal congestion, runny nose, and moderate pharyngeal congestion. The eardrum is often congested, and about 15% have myringitis. The cervical lymph nodes may be enlarged. A few cases present with maculopapular rash, erythema, or herpes labialis. There are generally no obvious abnormal signs in the chest. Dry or wet rales can be heard in about half of the cases, and a small amount of pleural effusion occurs in about 10%-15% of cases.

The lesions are mainly in the lung interstitium. The symptoms of mycoplasma pneumonia vary in severity. Some patients have no obvious symptoms but are discovered during chest X-ray. In addition to general systemic infectious manifestations, most patients often suffer from headaches and persistent irritating coughs. With effective treatment, most patients will recover in about 2 weeks. The infection causes humoral immunity, and most adults already have antibodies in their serum, so the disease rarely occurs.

2. How to treat mycoplasma pneumonia

Methods for treating Mycoplasma pneumonia include diet therapy, exercise therapy, traditional Chinese medicine treatment, etc. as follows:

1. Sichuan Fritillary and Pear cubes. You need 2 snow pears, 4 grams of Fritillaria cirrhosa, 30 grams of crystal sugar, and 10 grams of wet bean powder. Wash the pears, peel them, remove the cores, and cut them into 12 pieces. Wash the Fritillaria cirrhosa, put the pear pieces into a steaming bowl, add the Fritillaria cirrhosa, rock sugar, and 50 ml of boiling water, seal the bowl with wet cotton paper, steam it in a steamer for 2 hours, take it out, place the pear pieces on a plate, pour the original juice into the pot, add a little water, thicken it with wet bean powder, and pour it on the pears. It can moisten the lungs, resolve phlegm, calm the liver and reduce fire.

2. First, stick to jogging, or do endurance sports training such as swimming and playing football. Pay attention to regulating your breathing during exercise, gradually increasing and deepening your breathing, and improving the efficiency and function of your lung breathing. Secondly, doing some chest expansion exercises every day to improve chest muscle strength can help expand chest cavity capacity and enhance breathing depth. Third, you can adopt the regulated breathing method. In a fresh air environment, inhale slowly for 4-5 seconds to allow your lungs to absorb enough oxygen; then exhale slowly, and practice for 5-8 minutes; in addition, whistling often can also improve your lung capacity.

3. Taking the "He's Xuanfei Recipe" decocted in water orally can dispel wind and lungs, resolve blood stasis and expel phlegm, and gradually remove toxins from the lungs. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that pneumonia is often caused by wind-heat (or wind-cold turning into heat) invading the lung defense, which causes the lungs to fail to descend and wind-heat blocking the lungs; lung qi is blocked, depressed and turns into heat, burning body fluids into phlegm, and phlegm and qi stagnation, resulting in phlegm-heat blocking the lungs.