How to care for chronic bronchitis?

Chronic bronchitis is a disease that is very prone to recurrence and lasts for a relatively long time, from autumn to next spring. Most patients are middle-aged and elderly people. After suffering from the disease, patients will have difficulty breathing, which brings great pain to patients. While undergoing treatment, they should also pay attention to nursing care in their daily lives. How to do the nursing work for chronic bronchitis? Now I will tell you about it, hoping it can help you.

1. Quit smoking

Research at home and abroad has shown that smoking is closely related to the occurrence of chronic bronchitis. The longer you smoke and the more cigarettes you smoke, the higher your risk of disease. Symptoms may be alleviated or disappear after quitting smoking. Therefore, those who have a smoking habit should quit.

2. Strengthen nutrition and eat a balanced diet

Because patients have a long course of illness, weakened gastric function, and eat less, coupled with long-term and large amounts of sputum and high protein consumption, they are prone to nutritional deficiencies and decreased resistance.

The weather is cold in winter, so patients should be given high-protein, high-calorie, high-vitamin, light, easily digestible food, such as lean meat, fish, eggs, walnuts, soy products, fresh vegetables and fruits. Honey, yam, ginkgo, walnut, pear, loquat, etc. have certain therapeutic effects on patients with chronic bronchitis and can be eaten appropriately. Patients should avoid raw, cold, greasy and spicy foods and control their salt intake.

Asthmatic bronchitis is often caused by allergies. Shrimp skin, dried shrimp, crabs, pickles, moldy food, etc. can all induce attacks of bronchial asthma, so they should be avoided. If the appetite is poor, give semi-liquid or liquid diet, and pay attention to adjusting the color, aroma and taste of the food.

Patients should be encouraged to drink plenty of water, at least 3000 ml per day, to keep the respiratory tract moist, dilute the sputum and facilitate coughing.

3. Dress appropriately and keep warm

Patients with chronic bronchitis have poor cold tolerance, are weak and afraid of cold. When encountering cold stimulation, they are prone to colds and upper respiratory tract infections. Investigations and studies have shown that about 80% of chronic bronchitis patients will develop acute bronchitis attacks after catching a cold. Therefore, you should add or remove clothes in time according to weather changes, and wear a mask and scarf when going out in winter. As the saying goes, "Cold starts from the feet", patients with chronic bronchitis should pay special attention to keeping their feet warm.

For patients, the surrounding air quality is also very important, so it is necessary to ventilate frequently, open windows more often, keep the indoor air moist, mop the floor more often, or place an air humidifier. Frequent ventilation can prevent the recurrence of chronic bronchitis. Patients cannot eat some foods that are prone to allergies, such as fish and shrimp.