Pulmonary emphysema
Disease information
Pulmonary emphysema
It is characterized, indeed by the permanent, progressive obstruction and
almost
always irreversible, of the air flow in the lungs, which is caused so that the alveoli or coats of air of the lungs, they lose its elasticity, they extend and they fill of vitiated air. When doing it the hair
glasses
of the coats cannot make their
function
normal
to gather
a
new provision of oxygen and to eliminate
carbon
dioxide and other products of remainder of the body, causing with which the breathing is difficult and ineffective.
As the alveoli become ill, the organism suffers more and more, by lack of oxygen and the minimum effort produces
a
difficult breathing and
tires
and the incapacity with time to make daily activities, which enormously affects the quality of life, of that it suffers it and its relatives.
This
disease
has
increased in
a
40% during the last years, mainly affects greater people of 55 years and constitutes one of the first causes of death in the Latin
American
countries. It affects more to the men than to the women after the 70 years, before the rate of mortality is equal in men who in women.
This
disease
is not curable, nevertheless the opportune medical treatment and adapted they can improve the symptoms, delay its advance and help to delay the incapacity that can generate, and mainly if it is fulfilled well, it improves the quality of life of
a
person and its
family
.
Between the main factors of risk, they are:
the tabaquismo, since 90% of the cases, present / display this
problem
, being more serious depending on the age of beginning and the number of cigarettes per day, as well as the being active smokers.
To be son of parents smokers, increases the incidence of
respiratory
problems
.
the contamination of the air, mainly in workers exposed to the coal, cadmium, silica, chemical agents and gases.
To have
chronic
bronchitis
or other
pulmonary
sufferings.
To have
a
hereditary tendency to
develop
the
disease
.
The main symptoms and signs are related to the breathing.
Difficulty to breathe, difficult and superficial breathing.
chronic
Cough, with flema, that can determine the beginning of the
disease
. The cough appears in the beginning only during the mornings due to the secretions that are accumulated during the night,
but
later the day and with green secretion appears throughout and thickens, that is symptom of an
infection
.
progressive Lack of air, that frequently makes the use necessary of oxygen.
nutricionales
Upheavals that go from the undernourishment to the
obesity
. In case of the
obesity
, the excess of
weight
makes difficult the breathing still more.
Apnea of the dream, that is pronounced in snores.
Lack of appetite and loss of
weight
.
Enfisema can be very serious and until mortal when in addition
diseases
like
neumonía
appear, frequent
respiratory
infections
, insufficiency
cardiac
and others more. It is developed during many years without presenting / displaying symptoms and can be avoided its progress from the moment at which it leaves the habit of the tabaquismo.
Other
diseases
can such cause symptoms that enfisema, reason why the medical diagnosis is important for the suitable treatment. Among them they are the
infections
,
pulmonary
inflammations, tie pulmonía with
AIDS
, the
tuberculosis
, the
chronic
bronchitis
and certain occupational
pulmonary
diseases
, like the black lung. Also they are bronquiectasias, in which the
respiratory
conduits dilate and
obstruct
with secretions and the progressive insufficiency
cardiac
, in which the lungs become congested with liquids that the heart is incapable to extract, as well as the
cancer
of lung.
IMPORTANT the content of this note is informative and it does not replace the medical diagnosis, reason why we do not become people in
charge
on its use.
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