Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis use hormone therapy, although effect is good, but also to have certain adverse reactions.
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis is an expression for type interstitial pneumonia of a type, idiopathic interstitial pneumonia in the most common. Lesions limited in the lungs, causing diffuse pulmonary fibrosis, cause lung function damage and breathing difficulties.
It is not clear etiology, the lack of the disease clinical of drugs and treatment, clinical is the main symptom of dry cough, difficulty breathing, labor XingQi close to, the development as the illness, paroxysmal cough and promote progressive, after a few months to a few years development for respiratory failure and cor pulmonale, due to the onset of the hidden, patients with clinical symptoms at first when a light, not paid more attention to, aggravating before go to a hospital checking so most of the victims were discovered already missed the best treatment period.
The general clinical doctors treatment with pulmonary fibrosis is immune inhibitors and sugar cortical hormone treatment.
But the long-term use of corticosteroids can produce the following reaction:
1, bounce phenomenon: hormone reduction and even the withdrawal process in the original disease worse.
2, stress crises: long-term use hormone HPA axis after function are suppressed, after discontinuation of the shaft function need 9 ~ 12 months or longer to recover. Therefore, all kinds of stress state all should increase hormone dosage, already stop wielder can be used again.
3, weak levy group: long-term continuous taking hormone and after discontinuation will appear weak, NaCha, depressed even fever, vomiting, joint muscle pain, etc. Patients on hormones that dependence, have a fear of discontinuation. Subjective feeling general malaise and disease recurrence. This time shall identify is really "disease recurrence" or "weak levy group".
