China News Service, Hangzhou, May 3 (Qian Chenfei) May 3 is the 24th World Asthma Day.
How to manage asthma well under the epidemic situation and reduce the risk of acute attack has become the focus of asthma patients.
Shen Huahao, deputy director of the Respiratory Branch of the Chinese Medical Association and head of the asthma group, and director of the Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine at the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, pointed out that long-term and standardized treatment of asthma is an important means to effectively control asthma. .
Shen Huahao said that epidemic prevention and control brought new challenges to the disease control of asthma patients.
Affected by the new crown epidemic, many asthma patients, especially young white-collar patients, have their work and life rhythms disrupted, coupled with their own lack of attention to the disease, forgetting and neglect caused by busy lives, which will increase asthma recurrence or even acute attacks. risk.
If you don’t pay attention to the standardized management of the disease at ordinary times, and you don’t have enough drug “surplus food” in your home, when the disease recurs or has an acute attack, it may be life-threatening.
Shen Huahao emphasized, "The goal of asthma treatment is good control, minimizing acute relapse and pulmonary function damage. Interrupting or delaying treatment will greatly reduce asthma control, not only increasing the frequency of attacks, but also the severity of the disease. It will get worse."
For asthma patients, the premise is that the disease can be effectively controlled to reduce the negative impact of the epidemic and reduce the risk of disease recurrence.
The realization of this goal is inseparable from the long-term standardized treatment of asthma.
"Currently, the clinical treatment of asthma mainly uses drug therapy, including control drugs and reliever drugs." Shen Huahao introduced, "The former can reduce the sensitivity of the trachea and bronchi to external stimuli, and reduce airway inflammation such as congestion, swelling, and increased secretions. Among them, inhaled glucocorticoids are currently the most effective control drugs. Because the airway inflammation in asthma patients is persistent, such control drugs need to be used every day."
Shen Huahao suggested that asthma patients should ensure that they use them in sufficient amounts, and they can carry them with them every day, and prepare them in places within easy reach such as at home and in the office, in case they need it.
Under the circumstance that the epidemic is still spreading in various places, patients should also prepare enough medication in advance to prevent discontinuation or withdrawal of medication.
At the same time, self-management is also required in life and diet, and some disease-inducing sources or irritating foods should be prevented and avoided.
If you go out, wear a mask, avoid spicy and frozen foods, and keep warm to prevent colds.
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