Candidiasis of light does not occur very often. Most often it is a consequence of the occurrence of the uncontrolled use of antibiotics in chronic infectious and inflammatory diseases bronchopulmonary system. Candidiasis light easy to make, but it is much more difficult to cure.
Why and how there candidiasis light
Candidiasis occurs when the lungs decrease the body's defenses against a background of chronic bacterial infections bronchopulmonary system. And as with these diseases need to regularly take antibiotics and sometimes even glucocorticoid hormones, the immune system is reduced so that living on the surface of the mucous membranes of the upper respiratory tract fungi of the genus Candida easily overcome a barrier, enter the mucosa, multiply there and distributed to all tidal waterways, including the bronchi and lungs. Candidiasis of light - it is almost always a secondary infection that occurs on a background of viral and bacterial infections and pulmonary tuberculosis.
Candidiasis is often accompanied by pulmonary and lung cancer
Lung cancer - prevention is better than cure
In which the treatment is prescribed, the overwhelming immune - chemotherapy and radiation therapy. Furthermore, candidiasis internal organs (including the lungs) can develop in any type of immunosuppression. The most striking example is the AIDS patients who regularly suffer from fungal diseases.
Candidiasis of lungs in lung tissue (alveolar) there are small foci of inflammation with necrosis (tissue breakdown) in the center and the deposition of fibrin (a blood protein) around the necrotic zone. The same foci can be formed in the wall of the bronchi. As a result of such a process in the lung tissue and bronchus suppurative cavity formed that eventually scar lung tissue replacement for connective. This process is called pulmonary fibrosis, it leads to loss of lung function.
As shown
Candidiasis of light begins with the emergence of compulsive dry painful cough. Sometimes, as a result of an attack of such a cough is allocated a small amount of mucous expectoration. The sputum may be blood-streaked. Against this background may appear bouts of bronchospasm, the patient begins to suffocate from the inability to exhale air from the lungs.
Sometimes all these phenomena occur smoothed and hard to distinguish from regular exacerbation of chronic broncho-pulmonary system bacterial or viral nature. Low temperature rises to subfebrile, but worried about severe weakness, lethargy, and sometimes a complete lack of efficiency. But in some cases, joining a fungal infection temperature rises sharply, there is a sudden shortness of breath, palpitations, chest pain
Chest pain is one symptom - a lot of diseases
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Diagnostics
The diagnosis of candidiasis is not easy to put a light. The problem is that the fungi of the genus Candida are permanent residents of our mucous membranes and small number is not proof of candidiasis. However, if the patient is detected in the sputum of a large number of fungi, the genus Candida, it confirms the diagnosis of candidiasis. At the same time carry out sputum culture to culture media to identify the fungi of the genus Candida, and their sensitivity to certain antifungal drugs. Held immunological blood tests (immunogram). Be sure to make the X-ray light. On radiographs can see the dappled shade (foci of inflammation). Held as bronchoscopy
Bronchoscopy - unpleasant but necessary
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Treatment
In chronic infectious-inflammatory bronchopulmonary diseases have to be treated mixed bacterial and fungal infections. Therefore prescribed antibiotics in combination with anti-fungal drugs, which the patient showed sensitivity.
Most often, as the antifungal fluconazole is used today
Fluconazole - used with caution
Which impacts directly on the fungi Candida genus, inhibiting the activity of enzymes and thus increasing the permeability of cell membranes. As a result of impaired growth and reproduction of fungi. When lung candidiasis fluconazole administered intravenously.
At the same time appoint restorative treatment in the form of vitamin and mineral complexes and immunomodulators. Recently appointed as a result of immunological blood tests.
Prevention of pulmonary candidiasis is a timely and correct treatment and prevention of infectious exacerbation of inflammatory lung diseases under the supervision of a physician. Equally important is a healthy way of life, the constant exposure to fresh air, moderate exercise and hardening in remission. Without exacerbation it is recommended as a spa treatment in sanatoria for diseases of the pulmonary system.
Galina Romanenko
