According to the latest statistics, 60%-80% of people will find "pulmonary nodules" during chest CT examination.
The lungs are a respiratory organ. Dust, bacteria, viruses, tuberculosis, fungi, harmful gases, etc. in the air will first be "suppressed" by the immune system in the lungs when inhaled into the lungs. In severe cases, symptoms may occur.
When the disease subsides, traces like incision scars will naturally be left in the lungs, which is the cause of most pulmonary nodules (except lung cancer nodules).
Although more and more people are diagnosed with lung nodules, no more than 1% of them are eventually diagnosed with lung cancer.
Don’t panic, but it doesn’t mean you don’t need to take care of it. Should you take medicine after detecting pulmonary nodules?
In this case, you need to take medicine:
Inflammatory nodules (nodules are produced due to local inflammation of the lungs), and if there are recent symptoms of infection (such as fever, etc.), antibiotics should be used to control the infection.
Don’t take medicine indiscriminately in these 3 situations:
1. Asymptomatic pulmonary nodules;
2. Pulmonary nodules with a diameter less than 1cm (90% of cases are the same) and whose cause cannot be determined;
3. Suspected pulmonary tuberculosis nodules, such as tuberculosis balls. Active tuberculosis often manifests as patchy infiltrates in the lungs rather than nodules. The vast majority of pulmonary tuberculosis manifesting as nodules is solid, old, asymptomatic, and does not require anti-tuberculosis treatment.