On the stage of life, sleep is like a faithful guardian, silently reflecting the health of the body. When the lungs are attacked by cancer, sleep tends to be the first to sound the alarm. It's like a dark battle inside the body, where subtle changes happen quietly while we sleep.
The first abnormality, frequent coughing, disturbs the clear dreams in the sleep, like an uninvited "troublemaker". During normal sleep, the body enters a relatively peaceful and peaceful mode, and the breathing shows a steady and orderly rhythm. However, if the lungs become cancerous, the tumor may irritate the airways and cause coughing. This kind of cough is not like the common cold, just cough twice. It's endless, it's stubborn, and it coughs so badly that it's a real headache. Imagine the lungs as a peaceful garden, and the cancer cells as thorns that grow unchecked, constantly irritating the airways and making coughing a regular visitor at night.
There was once a Mr. Li who had a good quality of sleep, but I don't know when he would cough frequently every night, which seriously affected his sleep. At first, he thought it was just an ordinary respiratory infection and self-medicated some cough medicine, but the symptoms did not improve. Time passed quietly, and instead of alleviating, the cough symptoms intensified, and even accompanied by bouts of chest pain, which made people feel uncomfortable. Mr. Li was really shocked at this moment, and hurriedly went to the hospital for an examination. As soon as the results came out, the doctor told him that it was lung cancer, but fortunately, it was still early and needed to be treated quickly. It was because he noticed this abnormal signal in sleep in time that he bought valuable time for treatment.
The second anomaly, difficulty breathing while sleeping, as if being choked tightly by a pair of large, invisible hands. Healthy lungs are like a super powerful bellows, swishing oxygen in, easily sending full vitality to our body and making us energetic every day. In the unfortunate event that cancer occurs in the lungs, the tumour may invade the airways or disrupt the lungs, making breathing extremely difficult and laborious. It's like struggling in the water, trying to breathe but always feeling like there's not enough oxygen.
Recently, Ms. Wang has frequently suffered from awakening at night, and when she wakes up, her chest seems to be weighed by a boulder, and her breath is full of suffocation, making it difficult to breathe smoothly. At first, Ms. Wang thought it was just because she was sleeping in an improper position or working too a daily basis, which caused her to feel depressed at night. However, the condition became more frequent and severe, and eventually she went to the hospital for a detailed examination and found that there was a large tumor in the lung that had compressed the trachea and bronchi. If she had been aware of the danger sign of breathlessness earlier, perhaps her condition would not have progressed to such a serious point.
The third abnormality, night sweats, is like a "sauna" that suddenly opens inside the body, under normal circumstances, the body's metabolism will be relatively slowed down during sleep, and the body temperature is relatively stable. However, when the lungs become cancerous, the body's immune system is activated to try to fight the cancer cells, resulting in an imbalance in body temperature regulation and night sweats. This night sweat is not an ordinary slight sweat, but a profuse sweat, which can even soak through pajamas and bed sheets.
Mr. Zhao was soaked in sweat every night for a while, thinking that he was weak, and tried various nourishing methods, but to no avail. It wasn't until a physical examination that a shadow was found in the lungs, and further examination confirmed the diagnosis of lung cancer. It dawned on him that the abnormal night sweats were a sign of cancer.
The fourth anomaly, chest pain, creeps in in your sleep, like a sharp thorn piercing your chest. The lungs are located in the chest cavity and cause chest pain when a tumor grows and invades surrounding tissues and nerves. The pain may be dull, dull, or sharp, stabbing and may be more noticeable at night.
Uncle Sun often woke up in the middle of the night with chest pain, and at first he thought it was a heart problem and took some drugs to treat the heart. But the symptoms of chest pain not only did not relieve, but became more and more severe. Later, after a comprehensive examination, it was found that the tumor in the lungs had progressed to a certain extent, invading the nerves of the pleura and chest wall.
In short, these abnormal manifestations during sleep are like distress signals from the body, reminding us to pay attention to the health of our lungs. They are like sparks in the dark, although they are weak, but if they can be detected and paid attention to in time, they may be able to contain cancer at an early stage and win more hope and time for life. We can't ignore these subtle changes, but we should be like a keen detective, catch every clue that may indicate a health problem, seek medical help in time, and protect our own health.
In this challenging health battleground, we need to be vigilant and listen to our bodies to prevent cancer from taking advantage of it. Let us arm ourselves with knowledge and action, protect the precious castle of the body, and let the flower of life bloom more brilliantly under the healthy sunshine.