Many old smokers begin to cough and chest tightness after quitting smoking. What's going on? Is there any way to alleviate this situation? Let's have a look
Quit smoking cough chest tightness how to return a responsibility
Recovery of the lungs after quitting smoking, the function of the lungs will gradually recover, and the cilia of the lungs will gradually recover their vitality, which can remove the necrotic and damaged cells of the lungs. The more active the cilia are, the stronger the stimulation to the respiratory tract, resulting in cough. If the expectoration is not smooth, it will cause the feeling of chest tightness. Poor lung function. Smoking causes great damage to the lungs. Long term smoking leads to significantly weaker lung function than normal people. The most obvious is shortness of breath after activities, feeling dyspnea, and cough symptoms after quitting smoking. Shortness of breath during cough will also cause pulmonary dyspnea and cough chest tightness.
Quit smoking, cough and chest tightness. You can eat these
Raw materials of banana, pineapple and apple juice: 2 bananas, 1 / 4 pineapples and 1 apple. Seasoning: appropriate amount of light salt water and honey.
Methods: 1. Peel bananas and pineapples, peel and core apples, cut them into pieces of moderate size, and soak the pineapple pieces in light salt water for a while.
2. Put the three kinds of fruits into the juicer to extract juice, and season with honey. Efficacy: moistening lung, resolving phlegm and relieving cough.
Rock sugar yam soup raw material: 250g yam. Seasoning: appropriate amount of rock sugar.
Method: 1. Wash yam, peel and cut into small pieces.
2. Pour an appropriate amount of water into the pot. After boiling, add yam blocks. When the yam is six mature, add rock sugar and cook until the yam is soft and rotten and the sugar juice is thick. Efficacy: Invigorating the spleen and lungs, suitable for chronic cough due to lung deficiency and dry throat.
Almond green carrot soup raw materials: 200g green radish and 200g red radish respectively, a small amount of lean meat, 15g apricot and 3 honey dates. Seasoning: proper amount of salt.
Methods: 1. Peel the green and carrot and cut them into pieces; Lean meat is also cut into pieces.
2. Add lean meat, radish, jujube, almond and water, cook for 2 hours, and season with salt. Efficacy: clearing heat and detoxification, moistening intestines and defecating, relieving cough and removing lung fire.
Quit smoking, cough, chest tightness can press acupoints
Methods 1. The performer or patient pinched and pressed Hegu Point (on the back of the hand, between the first and second metacarpal bones, at the midpoint of the radial side of the second metacarpal bone) and thenar point (at the posterior depression of the first metacarpophalangeal joint of the thumb, about at the radial side of the midpoint of the first metacarpal bone, at the red and white meat border), 20 ~ 30 times per point. 2 ~ 3 times a day.
Methods the second performer gently and gradually rubbed the sun acupoint on the affected side (on the head, fold the auricle forward, when the ear tip straight up into the hairline) 50 ~ 100 times with the thumb end. The patient did swallowing at the same time. If the pain was relieved, press and dial 100 times before and after, push and press 20 ~ 30 times up and down. 1 ~ 2 times a day.
Methods the third performer or patient pressed the earlobe tonsil points 50 ~ 100 times with thumb and index finger, 1 ~ 2 times a day.
Methods four operators used the finger tip to probe the pressure before the patient's neck, and recorded the pain reaction points (mostly on the sternocleidomastoid tendon or the anterior and posterior edges), and then pressed 15 ~ 30 points from top to bottom. If the throat is itchy and tight and there is a feeling of foreign body in the pharynx, then point Hongyin point (located at the neck, 0.5 inches on both sides of the concavity on the thyroid cartilage notch; take points at 0.5 inches on both sides of Lianquan point, 2 points on the left and right), Tiantu point (at the neck, on the current median line, in the center of the superior sternal fossa); For those with neck fatigue, point Fengchi acupoint (located at the neck, below the occipital bone, flat with Fengfu acupoint, the depression between the sternocleidomastoid muscle and the upper end of trapezius muscle) and Tianzhu acupoint (located at the 1.3-inch opening near the middle of the posterior hairline, that is, there is a protruding muscle & lt; trapezius muscle & gt; at the neck, the lateral recess of this muscle and about 2 cm opening near the middle of the posterior hairline are this acupoint) for 30 times respectively, Hegu acupoint 10 times. 1 ~ 2 times a day.
Quit smoking, cough, chest tightness and take a foot bath
Method 1 take 20 grams of honeysuckle and towel gourd seeds, 10 grams of refined salt and 10 grams of pomegranate peel. Put the medicine in the pot, put water and boil the liquid, pour it into the foot bath basin, bathe for 25 minutes, 1 ~ 2 times a day. Each dose of traditional Chinese medicine can be used continuously for 4 days, and 10 doses are a course of treatment.
Method 2: take 10 grams of Rehmannia glutinosa, Forsythia suspensa, red peony and Radix Scrophulariae respectively, and 8 grams of Ophiopogon japonicus, mountain bean root and Shiqian respectively. Put the medicine in the pot, put water and boil the liquid, pour it into the foot bath basin, bathe for 25 minutes, 1 ~ 2 times a day. Each dose of traditional Chinese medicine can be used continuously for 4 days, and 10 doses are a course of treatment.
Methods three: take 20 grams of Radix Isatidis, Radix Achyranthes Bidentatae and Dendrobium, 10 grams of burdock and 6 grams of scallion. Put the medicine in the pot, put water and boil the liquid, pour it into the foot bath basin, bathe for 25 minutes, 1 ~ 2 times a day. Each dose of traditional Chinese medicine can be used continuously for 4 days, and 10 doses are a course of treatment.
Method 4: take 20 grams of Angelica dahurica and Evodia rutaecarpa, 10 grams of fennel and 15 grams of dandelion. Put the medicine in the pot, put water and boil the liquid, pour it into the foot bath basin, bathe for 25 minutes, 1 ~ 2 times a day. Each dose of traditional Chinese medicine can be used continuously for 4 days, and 10 doses are a course of treatment.
Pay attention to long-term cough and chest tightness after quitting smoking
Beware of long-term cough and chest tightness. Pay attention to whether there are lung and heart lesions. There are many causes of the disease, which does not mean that it will appear after quitting smoking. It may have appeared before, but it is not obvious. Get medical attention in time. If you feel that your cough and chest tightness last for a long time, you should get medical attention as soon as possible and have an examination at night to avoid delaying the condition without timely examination. If there are lesions, we should actively cooperate with the doctor's treatment and overcome the disease as soon as possible.