Inhalation for lung cancer
Lung cancer is considered the most severe cancer. A person with cancer feels a breakdown, coughing, shortness of breath, hoarseness of voice worries him. Home inhalation procedure for lung cancer relieves symptoms and improves the patient's well-being.
Content:
- Is it possible to do inhalation for lung cancer at home
- Organization of the procedure
- Inhalation side effects
Cough - as a sign of cancer
The cough reflex is a kind of airway cleansing mechanism in which harmful particles and phlegm are excreted.
Coughing spells accompanied by mucus are exhausting a person, especially if this is accompanied by shortness of breath, vomiting, pain in bones and muscles.
Initial treatment with inhalation can combat the causes of coughing. To create comfortable conditions for the patient, the following actions are taken:
- Inhalation with menthol vapors, eucalyptus;
- Mucoleptic drugs, potassium iodide, antistramine;
- Drugs that change the chemical structure of sputum;
- Centrally acting drugs - morphine, codeine.
If the disease progresses, the cough appears at night, complicated by respiratory cramps. To alleviate the patient's condition, you need to use inhalations, but first agree on their composition with your doctor.
Is it possible to do inhalation for lung cancer at home
Alternative treatment by inhalation, which contributes to the killing of malignant cells, can be distinguished by types:
- Natural, phytoncide-rich procedures (forest, mountain, sea healing air);
- Artificial, with the help of special devices or improvised means;
- Wet inhalation using a nebulizer;
- Warm-wet procedures with a solution temperature not higher than 40 0 С;
- With lung cancer, inhalations can be done, the recipes for which contain soda, herbal, oil infusions.
Organization of the procedure
As with any therapeutic manipulation, inhalation requires adherence to certain rules.
- For two hours before starting the procedure, the patient should not eat;
- Recipes for folk herbal infusions must be agreed with the doctor;
- Breathing during inhalation should be even, natural;
- Clothes on the patient should not hinder movement.
Inhalation side effects
Patients who use a nebulizer as an inhaler for lung cancer should be aware that in this case, side effects may occur. They can be expressed as severe dizziness, nausea, light-headedness. Therefore, it is recommended to use the nebulizer under the supervision of a doctor or with his approval.
In the case when the course of the disease is accompanied by fever or high blood pressure, inhalation treatment is prohibited.
The author of the article: Bykov Evgeny Pavlovich | Oncologist, surgeon
Education: graduated from residency at the Russian Scientific Oncological Center. N. N. Blokhin "and received a diploma in the specialty" Oncologist"
