Nowadays, people’s lives are under increasing pressure, especially for men who are old and young. Many people have developed the habit of smoking, and over time it has become People say that old smokers are addicted to cigarettes, and people gradually become unable to extricate themselves from the temptation of tobacco.
Cigarettes are very harmful to the body. Although they are not as good as drugs, they will devour people’s health little by little, and even lead to the collapse of the whole system Disintegration, the harm to the body of long-term smokers is beyond doubt. If people who smoke regularly want to determine whether their lungs are healthy, they can look at the following 6 manifestations.
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Long-term smokers, if there are no these 6 discomforts after waking up, it means that the lungs are still healthy< /span>
1. Cough and phlegm: getting up early and coughing up phlegm is one of the common manifestations of smokers. If you have a cough or sputum caused by a cold or external stimuli, you must consider whether there is a disease in the lungs. After a cigarette is lit, more than 2,000 harmful substances will be released, and enter the lungs along with the respiratory system, corroding the health of the lungs and affecting normal function.
It can also induce bronchial and other chronic diseases, which can cause severe coughing in the body. If the situation is more serious, it is likely to be a lung tumor caused, so be sure to seek medical examination as soon as possible. If No symptoms of chest tightness or shortness of breath after waking up in the morning, indicating that the lungs are still healthy.
3. Mouth odor: harmful substances contained in cigarettes will Breathing adheres to the oral mucosa, invades the central nervous system of the human body, long-term smoking, decreased taste perception, easy to suffer from stomatitis, and finally there will be obvious oral odor.
4. Physical fatigue: When the oxygen uptake function of the lungs declines and pathological changes occur, it will damage the human immune system, and the blood circulation of old smokers If the speed is slow, there will be lack of blood and oxygen in the various tissues of the body, and fatigue will appear. If you often experience fatigue, lethargy, and listlessness after getting up in the morning, you must be vigilant.
5. Frequent constipation: Some people have regular constipation after getting up in the morning The habit of defecation, getting up and defecation in the morning helps to expel metabolic waste in the body, improve the vitality of the day, and increase the workload. Now people have bad living habits, and constipation will occur. If this happens for a long time, it will increase the burden on the body. In addition , Constipation is also directly related to the decline in lung function.
6. Shoulder pain: Old smokers must carefully observe whether they have symptoms of shoulder pain after waking up in the morning. Traditional medicine says: ” “Lung Meridian Walking Shoulders”, once a lesion occurs in the lungs, malignant cells will proliferate to the shoulders, causing radiating pain in both shoulders. If you have similar symptoms, you must continue to pay attention.
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What diseases are likely to develop into lung cancer?
In fact, many diseases are interrelated, such as lung cancer, in addition to bad living habits can cause lung cancer, other diseases are also possible It is the cause of lung cancer. Many people don’t know much about these things. Let’s popularize them together to see which diseases may develop into lung cancer.
Will chronic pneumonia develop into lung cancer
Chronic pneumonia generally does not develop into lung cancer. In fact, chronic pneumonia may be pulmonary tuberculosis. Fungal infection of the lungs is chronic inflammation of the lungs. Probability of becoming lung cancer. Generally, pulmonary tuberculosis is an inflammatory process and will not cause lung cancer. There is no obvious direct correlation between chronic bronchitis and lung cancer, and it will not become lung cancer.
Chestoma is lung cancer
There is no clear relationship between miliary nodules and lung cancer, generally related to tuberculosis, miliary nodules Nodules are the descriptions in imaging CT examinations or chest X-ray examinations. Miliary nodules are generally used to describe inflammatory lesions of pulmonary tuberculosis. So don’t be nervous, and don’t think you have lung cancer when you see miliary nodules.
Can lung nodules develop into lung cancer
Pulmonary nodules may develop into lung cancer. In fact, 70% of pulmonary nodules are benign nodules, and only 30% are cancerous nodules. Pulmonary nodules It is very common in life, and there are many reasons for it, including benign inflammation, inflammatory granuloma, tuberculosis, fungus, and benign tumors, such as hamartoma, fibroma, and even lymph nodes in the lungs, scars in the lungs etc. These all showed the shape of pulmonary tuberculosis on imaging, and none of them were lung cancer.
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How long does it take for an inflamed lung to turn into cancer?
The occurrence of lung cancer is a relatively slow process. It varies from person to person. It may take several years or even ten years for some patients’ pneumonia to transform into lung cancer. If the lung inflammation of the patient has been cured after active treatment, the chance of causing lung cancer is considered to be very small.
If the patient has chronic pneumonia, Inflammation will reduce lung tissue and resistance. In addition, patients often smoke and drink or eat some fried, barbecued, pickled and other foods that contain carcinogenic factors, which may cause lung cancer. Everyone’s personal constitution, genetics There are great differences in environmental factors, environmental factors and dietary factors, so the time of lung cancer formation and the incidence of lung cancer are different from person to person.
Pneumonia generally refers to bacterial and viral infections. Anti-inflammatory treatment can effectively cure lung cancer. Mutations occur, abnormal proliferation of cells in the lungs occurs, uncontrollable growth, and finally a mass is formed, and cancer cells metastasize throughout the body. Early surgical resection of lung cancer can be cured, and later systemic metastases can only prolong life with drugs.