What causes coughing and bleeding? These diseases are the most common

If you cough in the middle of the night and have bleeding, you should be alert. This is a very serious phenomenon. The most common causes are bronchiectasis, lung cancer, tuberculosis, and wind-heat damaging the lungs. These all require active treatment, especially early-stage lung cancer, the chances of cure are very high.

1. Bronchial dilatation Coughing up blood in the middle of the night may be caused by bronchiectasis. Patients with bronchiectasis will cough up a lot of thick sputum and cough up blood repeatedly every day. Coughing up blood is not limited to the middle of the night. Symptoms of coughing up blood in sputum or coughing up blood will occur when getting up in the morning, in the evening, and before going to bed. The sputum is mostly yellow-green pus-like and has a fishy smell. Recommendation: There are many causes of bronchiectasis. Tuberculosis, pneumonia, cystic fibrosis, foreign body inhalation, etc. may all lead to bronchiectasis and cause coughing with blood in the middle of the night. It is recommended to go to the hospital for examination and diagnosis, and actively treat it according to the doctor's advice.

2. Tuberculosis Coughing up blood in the middle of the night may be a sign of tuberculosis. Tuberculosis is a chronic infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis infecting the lungs. The onset of pulmonary tuberculosis can be acute or slow, and the symptoms are mostly low-grade fever (especially in the afternoon), night sweats, fatigue, weight loss, menstrual disorders in women, red tongue without coating, cough, sputum, hemoptysis, chest pain, varying degrees of chest tightness or difficulty breathing, etc. Recommendation: Once symptoms of tuberculosis are discovered, you should go to the hospital for examination in time to confirm whether it is tuberculosis. If the disease is discovered, it should be treated as soon as possible, and before it is cured, take care to prevent family members from being infected.

3. Lung cancer Coughing up blood in the middle of the night may also be considered lung cancer. There are many causes of lung cancer, including genetic factors, lifestyle habits, occupational factors, and environmental factors. The most common symptoms of lung cancer patients are cough, blood in sputum or hemoptysis, as well as chest pain, chest tightness, shortness of breath, hoarseness, fever, weight loss and other symptoms. Recommendation: If you suspect you have lung cancer, you should go to the hospital for a check-up. Do not be overly self-suspicious and do not believe in folk remedies. Early lung cancer can be cured.

4. Wind-heat damages the lungs. Wind-heat damages the lungs is also one of the reasons for coughing up blood in the middle of the night. Wind-heat damages the lungs generally refers to exogenous wind-heat or wind-cold that accumulates for a long time and turns into heat, causing abnormal lung qi and symptoms such as lung defense being affected. Patients with wind-heat damaging the lungs often wake up in the middle of the night with coughing, and their sputum contains blood, or is mixed with blood and sputum. They also have symptoms such as cough, yellow sputum, sore throat, thirst, fever, or slight aversion to wind and cold, thin yellow tongue coating, and floating or slippery pulse. Recommendation: Patients with wind-heat damage to the lungs are often accompanied by colds, coughs, asthma, aphonia, acute and chronic bronchitis and other diseases. Traditional Chinese medicine generally adopts the principles of dispersing wind and heat, clearing the lungs and resolving phlegm, and relieving cough and asthma for treatment. Western medicine can also be used for treatment.