TOS
Disease information
TOS
One of the most annoying and exhausting symptoms of the
respiratory
diseases
, without
a
doubt some is the cough. It prevents to speak, it causes noise, it does not let sleep or, it hurts the throat and it causes pains chest and
thorax
when this is strong, persistent or lasts long time. In addition it not only affects to who it suffers
but
to that coexist with the person.
Difficult to treat, the cough
has
affected during the last year 47 million people, of who half is young minors of 14 years and it calculates that approximately 40% of the adults present / display
a
picture of cough to the year, generally during the season of cold.
The cough is air the unavoidable expulsion of the
respiratory
routes to
release
them of any obstruction, reason why it is not
a
disease
in himself,
but
a
reaction of the organism and
a
signal of alarm.
In many cases it must to the excessive existence of known thick
liquid
like flema, that forms in the bronchial conduits,
but
also can be caused by an attempt to undo of dust, polen, smoke and other polluting agents lodged in the lungs and until like
a
reaction that allows to save the life, when some foods or
liquid
penetrate in the trachea and
obstruct
the breathing.
The cough is the first manifestation or alert signal that appears when the air that we aspired is contaminated, contains virus or
bacteria
or is very cold and when entering the lungs through the nose and the mouth, it activates our mechanisms of defense to defend
itself
of the
strange
agents.
Between these mechanisms of defense are thousands of very small vellosidades known like cilia, that are in the mucosa of the nose and whose
function
is the one to act like
a
barrier so that
bacteria
, dust and other polluting particles cannot penetrate to the
respiratory
system
. The cilia turn out to be effective against
infections
of the nose, sines for nasals and
bronchi
.
Nevertheless, the movement of the cilia can be deteriorated or to diminish by the cold, the tobacco, to suffer resfriados constants, by lack of exercise, drinks you cold or by the consumption of antihistamine and when this happens, it appears the annoying cough that with its force tries to expel the pathogenic agents.
Also one appears like product of the inflammation, resequedad of the throat or by the presence of some element that blocks the passage of the air to the lungs.
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