What is the best way to treat cough caused by pulmonary fibrosis?

Many people must have suffered from pulmonary fibrosis diseases in their daily lives. The name of this disease is pulmonary fibrosis cough. It is generally very common. The main treatment is Western medicine. In normal times, empirical treatment methods are also needed to achieve the treatment effect. Patients also need to take medications on time and in fixed quantities.

1. Western medicine treatment

1. Glucocorticoids (prednisone, also known as prednisone)

2. Immunosuppressants or cytotoxic drugs (cyclophosphamide, azathioprine)

3. Antioxidants (Ambroxol, Taurine)

4. Anti-fibrotic drugs (pirfenidone, IT_ receptor antagonists, monoclonal antibodies, etc.)

5. Receptor inhibitors (leukotriene receptor antagonists, tumor necrosis factor-α inhibitors, epidermal growth factor-β inhibitors)

6. Immunomodulators (BCG polysaccharide nucleic acid, levamisole)

7. Other drugs (colchicine, macrolide antibiotics, interferon-γ, angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors)

8. Gene therapy

2. TCM Treatment Methods

1. Special TCM therapies (traditional Chinese medicine infusion, acupoint plaster, traditional Chinese medicine atomization, foot medicated bath, special prescription of warming kidney and clearing lung soup, magnetic medicine superposition and immunomodulation therapy, etc.)

2. Chinese patent medicine (for example: Yangyin Yifei Tongluo Pills, Xianqi Fuyang Guben Pills, etc.)

3. Oxygen Therapy

Giving the patient oxygen inhalation can improve the decline in blood oxygen, which falls under the category of inhalation therapy. This therapy can increase arterial oxygen partial pressure, improve tissue hypoxia caused by decreased blood oxygen, and maintain the functions of important organs such as the brain, heart, and kidneys; it can also reduce the increased workload of the heart and lungs caused by increased heart rate and breathing during hypoxia. It has a better effect on hypoxia caused by decreased arterial oxygen partial pressure in respiratory diseases, but can only partially improve hypoxia caused by poor circulatory function or anemia.