What are the symptoms of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

The symptoms of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in the elderly are mainly cough, sputum and wheezing. Cough refers to cough and expectoration, for example, some people often cough intermittently and get worse in the morning; expectoration refers to patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease who often cough white foamy sputum or white serous sputum or even sputum with blood stains, and cough and expectoration get worse in the morning. If patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease are complicated with infection, they can often cough a lot of yellow pus sputum. COPD develops to a certain stage and can manifest itself as dyspnea, chest distress, shortness of breath. Early dyspnea can manifest only as shortness of breath during physical activity, even running or brisk walking. When COPD function gradually decreases, it often manifests as shortness of breath at rest. Some patients can manifest as wheezing, nocturnal dyspnea, and then chest distress, wheezing activity increases. In addition, there are non-specific performance, such as some people can be manifested as weight loss, fatigue, loss of appetite, poor spirit. COPD mainly manifested as cough, expectoration, shortness of breath, breathing difficulties. The elderly showed a long time chronic cough, expectoration, do not think it is caused by smoking and other minor problems, should go to the hospital for standardized examination, see if there is chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.