Diagnosis of Alpha-1. First aired on HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbal on November 20, 2007.

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Real Cigarette Filters that WORK!(with any weed) face it, cigarette filters do little more than keep tobacco out of your mouth. Real Cigarette filters eliminate tar that may lead to COPD. (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease). Practice safe sex and practice safe smoking. Breathe easy.

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COPD & Heart Disease and Blood Sugar involvement in Lupus — questions per mrssmithjr. Thank you for submitting. Hope this helps : )
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CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE (COPD)

http://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/chronic-obstructive-pulmonary-disease-copd-overview

http://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/chronic-obstructive-pulmonary-disease-copd-treatment-overview

LUPUS AS A RISK FACTOR FOR HEART DISEASE

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DETECTING DAMAGE TO ARTERIAL WALLS

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STEROIDS

http://www.lupus.org/webmodules/webarticlesnet/templates/new_aboutdiagnosis.aspx?a=86&z=15&page=2

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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the collective term for some lung diseases that make breathing difficult.

What is it?
COPD is the overall term used to describe a variety of illnesses, including chronic bronchitis, emphysema and chronic obstructive airways disease. People with COPD have permanently damaged lungs and find it difficult to breathe most of the time.

Who’s affected?
COPD usually affects people over the age of 40. It’s the sixth most common cause of death in England and Wales, causing more than 30,000 deaths a year.

What causes COPD?
Smoking is to blame for COPD in the majority of cases. Smoke from cigarettes causes inflammation in the lungs and destroys the elasticity that allows the lungs to expand and contract as we breathe.

It also damages the alveoli, the tiny air sacs at the end of the airways from which oxygen is absorbed into the bloodstream.

Other causes include occupational exposure to dusts, indoor pollution from wood-burning and coal-burning stoves, air pollution and certain inherited diseases. For example, a minority of people have a rare inherited form of emphysema caused by a lack of the protein known as alpha-1-antitrypsin.

What happens?
The diseases collectively known as COPD – chronic bronchitis, emphysema and chronic obstructive airways disease – are now understood to be aspects of the same problem: a narrowing of the airways, which obstructs the flow of air in and out of the lungs, making it difficult to breathe.
In chronic bronchitis, for example, excess mucus is made in the airways so people have a lot of phlegm and cough all the time. This mucus also narrows the airways.

In emphysema, the air sacs are left over-inflated when their elastic fibres are destroyed. Small holes also develop in their walls, leaving them unable to work properly.

What are the symptoms?
The damage to the lungs that results in COPD is gradual, which is why most people are over 40 by the time symptoms begin.

An early morning cough, often called a smoker’s cough, is common and produces a lot of phlegm. Wheezing, chest tightness and difficulty breathing are often noticed first. People may find themselves short of breath when doing very little or even when they’re just sitting down.

These symptoms are usually worse in winter, with recurrent lung infections adding to the problem.

COPD impairs quality of life, by preventing people with the condition from socialising and enjoying their hobbies. It also makes many feel frustrated and angry about not being able to do the things they want to.

What’s the treatment?
It’s not possible to cure COPD, but the damage can be slowed. By far the best way to do this is to stop smoking. It’s also vital to avoid other people’s smoke.

Exercising as much as you’re able to helps keep the lungs (and heart) strong and builds self-confidence. Pulmonary rehabilitation programmes help improve symptoms and increase exercise capacity. Physiotherapy helps to clear mucus from the lungs and most people with COPD are taught exercises they can do every day to help themselves.

Medicines that make the airways wider so it’s easier to breathe can be given through an inhaler or as tablets. Steam inhalation and humidifying rooms can also help breathing by loosening mucus. Medication is available that helps to thin mucus so it’s easier to cough up.

When lung infections arise, it’s important they’re treated quickly with antibiotics. Recurrent or severe chest infections often need hospital treatment. When COPD is very severe, oxygen can be used at home.

It’s vital that people with COPD are vaccinated against flu every year (usually in autumn) and against the most common cause of pneumonia, the pneumococcus bacteria, when advised.

Eating a healthy diet and drinking enough liquid is essential.

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Now,

I Can Breathe!
I Can Breathe!
I Can Breathe!

I wasn’t expected to make it this far, let alone be as healthy as I am now!

Name: Kathleen
Age: 24
Living Life One Breath at a Time

“Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.”
~ Isaiah 40:30-31~

Check my main website, kathleenannmontgomery.com to find out more about me personally.

I have COPD
COPD: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Lung Problems Caused
By Occupational Exposure to Polluted Air!
Farmer’s Lung, Home Heated with Wood, and Schools Heated with Coal, etc!

My name is Kathleen Ann Montgomery. I grew up on a dairy and beef farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Carroll County, Virginia. From the age of five, I got bronchitis or pneumonia every year. As a result, my Pulmologist (Lung Doctor) from Duke University diagnosed me with COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) when I was seventeen. COPD is a life threatening lung disease. Most people get COPD from smoking, but I got COPD even though I have never smoked and have rarely been around anyone who smoked. My lungs were sensitive, tight, and weak. Most of the time, just breathing hurt! Dr. Steele discovered that there was no air getting to the lower part of my right lung. He discussed that removing that section in my lung might make it easier for me to breathe. My breathing was low enough to where people are usually put on oxygen. However, Dr. Steele did not want me to get me dependent on oxygen. He wanted me to keep fighting to get better. Young bodies heal easier and I was only 17, so he wanted to give me a fighting chance! After getting bronchitis and pneumonia for so many years, my body was way too weak for my lungs to clean themselves. Since my lungs were damaged from bronchitis, I produced a lot of mucus. It was my lungs’ way of trying desperately to clean themselves. In addition, plugs were formed from mucus left over from the bronchitis and pneumonia, which blocked many of my airways. Even though my lungs were ready to collapse at any second, my family and I were determined that I lift weights, no matter how light or few of reps I did. That helped me to keep up my strength. Dr. Steele, my Duke Pulmonologist (Lung Doctor) suggested that the salt air from the east coast of Florida might help my lungs. He wanted us to try it out as an alternative to lung surgery. Upon visiting eastern Florida beaches, it felt like God was sweeping out my lungs! So when I was seventeen in August of 2001, my mother, brother, and I moved to Cape Canaveral, Florida. I was able to breathe a whole lot better, and I coughed up several blockages (plugs) from my lungs. Dr. Steele said it was from the warm salt air and everything I was doing. When there was a strong odor or allergen in the air, I had to wear a mask just to have a chance of breathing clearer air. Even so, I did what ever I could to improve my health. I used a mixture of salt and water to clean out my nose, a saline spray to moisten my nose, hot steam to moisten my lungs, and spent time in the pool or ocean to moisten my lungs. All this helped to keep me going!

Since we have moved to Florida, I haven’t gotten pneumonia. From April 2004 until April 2005, I didn’t have bronchitis due to the fact I took four different doses of steroids (prescribed to help my breathing). The steroids have a side effect of weakening the immune system, which was already weak. So, it was a vicious cycle. I was always weak, short of air, and had to constantly push myself to get anything done. As soon as the year was up I got bronchitis, again! Then I had gone for another a year without getting bronchitis again, but the 2006 Florida Wildfires weakened me down and I developed bronchitis, again! My mom and brother John thought I was going to die for sure. However, it has now been well over a year since I’ve caught bronchitis or pneumonia.

Check out my website, kathleenannmontgomery.com to see how I got better!

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COPD, or chronic obstructive pulmonary (PULL-mun-ary) disease, is a progressive disease that makes it hard to breathe. “Progressive” means the disease gets worse over time.

COPD can cause coughing that produces large amounts of mucus (a slimy substance), wheezing, shortness of breath, chest tightness, and other symptoms.

Cigarette smoking is the leading cause of COPD. Most people who have COPD smoke or used to smoke. Long-term exposure to other lung irritants, such as air pollution, chemical fumes, or dust, also may contribute to COPD.

COPD is caused by noxious particles or gases, most commonly from smoking which trigger an abnormal inflammatory responsein the lung.The inflammatory response in the larger airways is known as chronic bronchitis which is diagnosed clinically when people regularly cough up sputum In the alveolithe inflammatory response causes destruction of the tissue of the lung, a process known as emphysema The natural course of COPD is characterized by occasional sudden worsenings of symptoms called acute exacerbations, most of which are caused by infectionsor air pollution
The diagnosisof COPD requires lung function testsImportant management strategies are smoking cessation, vaccinations rehabilitation and drug therapy (often using inhalers Some patients go on to requiring long-term oxygen therapy or lung transplantation

COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) is a serious lung disease that, over time, makes it hard to breathe. It is the 4th leading cause of death in the United States and causes serious, long-term disability. The number of people with COPD is increasing. More than 12 million people are currently diagnosed with COPD and an additional 12 million likely have the disease and don’t even know it.

You may have heard COPD called other names, like emphysema or chronic bronchitis. In people who have COPD, the airways—tubes that carry air in and out of your lungs—are partly blocked, which makes it hard to get air in and out. CHRONIC BRONCHITIS (COPD) “Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease” chronic bronchitis Chronic Disease COPD shortness of breath emphysema lung disease
EMPHYSEMA “Lung Disease” CHRONIC BRONCHITIS “CHRONIC BRONCHITIS” (COPD) “Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary chronic bronchitis Chronic Disease COPD shortness of breath emphysema lung disease coPD

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