Are you sitting in the same position for extended periods of time with your legs crossed? Not good. Why? Increasing your risk for having a pulmonary embolism.
A pulmonary embolism is a sudden blockage in a lung artery, most often caused by a traveling blood clot from a vein in the leg. These clots [...]
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Pulmonary hypertension, aka pulmonary arterial hypertension, is high arterial blood pressure brought about by narrowing and hardening of your lung’s arteries. These arteries are your blood’s transport system to oxygen rejuvenation.
This progressively clogged up situation causes breathing problems, an always tired feeling and your heart to work harder. In turn, leading to heart weakening [...]
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Sarcoidosis is an immune system condition that causes granulomas (tiny lumps of cell inflammation) anywhere in your body, mostly organs. Usually these inflammatory bumps begin their formation in your lungs or lymph nodes.
Sarcoidosis symptoms may be non existent or be an outcome of an affected organ. Granulomas can be great in numbers and [...]
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Cystic fibrosis (CF) is an incurable mucus and sweat gland inherited disease. Its abnormal gene has a control issue with moving salt and water in and out of your cells.
As a result, cystic fibrosis causes your mucus to be sticky thick, rather than runny thin normal. And your sweat to be extremely salty.
Sticky [...]
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Filed under: Digestion, Infections ~ Bacteria, Lungs, Pancreas
Bronchiectasis is an incurable chronic lung condition in which the airway walls of your lungs become damaged and lose their ability to clear out mucus. And mucus build up is an ideal environment for bacteria to grow, thus causing repetitive lung infections that further damage your airways.
Because your airways deliver oxygen and expel mucus, bronchiectasis [...]
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Do you realize that approximately 25,000 times a day you breathe in oxygen, which is then delivered to your bloodstream via your respiratory system. This “necessary to thrive” compound is fundamental for your cells to work and grow.
Additionally, your football field sized lungs move carbon dioxide out, a by product of cell metabolism.
Unfortunately, this [...]
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Hemoptysis definition is coughing up blood, spitting up blood, blood in your phlegm, bloody mucous, blood sputum or a less graphic way by saying expectoration of blood from your respiratory passageways.
Surprising and frightening as the sight of blood in your cough-up might be, the cause is not necessarily serious. Some causes for hemoptysis symptoms [...]
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Although early stage lung cancer is treatable, its death rate remains the highest for the most part because early detection is elusive. Most lung cancers rarely cause symptoms until it spreads beyond a cure.
This fact alone is why it is crucial for you to have your symptoms addressed immediately upon first notice. [...]
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Pulmonary fibrosis, aka idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPK), is an incurable lung disease, with a 3-5 year lifespan after diagnosis. This disease causes scarring in and around your air sacs for some reason that is not fully understood.
As scarring progresses, your lungs become thickly stiff. This sac condition makes it difficult for oxygen to [...]
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Filed under: Breath, Cough, Lungs
Pneumonia is an “inside your lungs” inflammation normally caused by bacteria, virus or fungus infections. You can also get pneumonia by inhaling a liquid or chemical.
The most serious and common adult pneumonia is caused by bacteria and its common signal of its lung invasion is by a “sudden, out of the blue” severe shaking chills [...]
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Filed under: Breath, Infections ~ Bacteria, Infections ~ Fungus, Infections ~ Virus, Lungs
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