Many people in life are unwell, and the first thing they do is not to go to the hospital, but to choose "patience may be fine".
However, not all illnesses can be alleviated by patience, and some diseases are more severe. These 10 kinds of small problems that you think will pass with patience are actually dangerous!
1. Hiccups don't stop:
Check for chronic gastritis.
Hiccups are normal in general, and hiccups are just some gas produced during digestion. The doctor reminds that if you have frequent hiccups, and it doesn't stop at the beginning, and your stomach still rings, it is likely to be chronic gastritis.
In severe cases, abdominal pain and indigestion may occur, and even other gastrointestinal pathologies may occur. Regular medical check-ups and gastrointestinal endoscopy are the right way to deal with them.
Second, ** total sensitivity:
Check for hives.
Under normal circumstances, ** have certain protection and repair functions, so scratch yourself yourself, and generally will not leave any traces. But if there is noticeable itching and erythema in the area where you scratched, it may be hives.
Hives are not just a few red bumps, but if they are acute, they can also cause suffocation due to swelling of the throat and even anaphylactic shock.
3. There are always bloodshot eyes:
Check for iritis.
Most people think that the redness of their eyes is usually due to overuse or lack of sleep. The doctor said that if the redness of the eye is very prominent and has not subsided for a long time, it is not as simple as eye fatigue, it may be iritis.
Iritis is easy to cure at first, but if it is not ** all the time, it may cause complications such as acute glaucoma, so don't put up with it. To distinguish iritis from pink eye, there is a little trick, people with pink eye will have a lot of eye droppings.
Fourth, mouth ulcers do not heal:
Check for oral diseases.
Long-term here usually refers to canker sores that last more than a month, and those that kind of sores are generally normal for three to five days.
If the ulcer does not heal for a long time, be vigilant, and if the condition is severe and there is no sign of healing, you should be careful that it may be oral cancer or other oral diseases.
Fifth, the eyelids droop and lack of energy:
Check for myasthenia gravis.
Some people have droopy eyelids, drooping eyelids, and may also have difficulty chewing and swallowing, so be careful that this may be a rare condition - myasthenia gravis.
Myasthenia gravis is an autoimmune disease caused by dysfunction of transmission at the neuromuscular junction, and the most common manifestation of patients is muscle weakness, which may involve skeletal muscles throughout the body.
6. Gastrointestinal polyps:
Beware of polyps becoming cancerous.
Many people will detect polyps during physical examination or gastrointestinal endoscopy, so they must pay attention to it. Many cancers of the gastrointestinal tract are developed from polyps, especially adenomatous colon polyps, which have a higher rate of cancer.
According to doctors, gastrointestinal polyps include adenomatous polyps, inflammatory polyps, hyperplastic polyps and hamartoma polyps. As adenoma polyps grow in size, so does their rate of cancer. Therefore, once a polyp is found, even if it is a small adenoma, it should be removed in time.
7. Long-term gallstones:
Cause carcinogenesis possible.
In pancreatic hepatobiliary surgery, there are many patients with gallbladder cancer every year, and most of these patients have a history of gallstones for many years.
If gallstones are not timely, in addition to increasing the pain of the patient, increasing the difficulty of surgery**, there is also the possibility of causing cancer. In general, there are often episodes of cholecystitis, and stones larger than 24 types of patients: 5 cm, significant or irregular thickening of the gallbladder wall, and gallbladder full of stones, should be surgically removed as soon as possible.
8. Long-term cough is always bad:
Beware of COPD.
The doctor said that it is not good to cough and asthma in cold weather, and beware of COPD. Patients with COPD in the early stage do not have obvious discomfort, and chest tightness and shortness of breath will only occur during strenuous exercise, which makes COPD more insidious and difficult to detect in the early stage.
In daily life, we should pay attention to keeping warm, reduce indoor pollution, and reduce outdoor activities in hazy weather. At the same time, exercise appropriately to enhance physical fitness. Early intervention can effectively delay disease progression and improve quality of life. Lung function should be checked annually over the age of 40.
9. Beriberi does not heal for a long time:
Beware of triggering kidney disease.
Doctor's tip: "beriberi", a common disease, can also lead to kidney disease in severe cases.
Pathogens that cause disease include viruses, bacteria, mycoplasma, spirochetes, fungi, parasites, etc. The mechanism of kidney disease induced by these pathogens is mainly through the activation of the immune response in vivo, which involves antigen-antibody complexes, complement and inflammatory cells, and the common renal pathological types are intracapillary proliferative glomerulonephritis, mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis, etc.
There are also drug reactions in the process, such as the anti-plum drug of Treponema pallidum that can cause membranous nephropathy. In addition, some viruses such as Epstein-Barr virus, HIV virus, hantavirus, etc., can directly damage kidney cells and cause lesions. Therefore, beriberi should not be left untreated, as long-term fungal infections may affect your kidneys.
10. Long-term varicose veins:
Beware of causing blood clots.
Varicose veins of the lower extremities are not difficult to detect and can often be detected by appearance. But it is not painful or itchy in the early stage, and it does not affect normal life, so some people tend to ignore it.
If left unprompted**, varicose veins can induce complications such as hyperpigmentation, stasis dermatitis, calf ulcers, phlebitis, deep vein thrombosis, and may even lead to pulmonary embolism. Early stage of varicose veins of the lower extremities is very necessary.
Once again, I would like to remind everyone: if you find these small problems, don't be careless, ask the doctor to help judge it in time, and feel more at ease!
*: Popular Science of People's Daily Online.