Kamis, 14 Juli 2011

Cigarettes For Lung Health Hazards

CAUSE lung disease can come from many internal and external factors (environment). Internal factors are influenced by both genetic yourself and in your own body. While many come from external causes air pollution and chemicals are inhaled, especially from cigarette smoke.
One of the diseases resulting from tobacco smoke and lung often diidap by patients was bronchitis. The disease is called inflammation of the airways and is known two types, namely acute and chronic.According to Dr. Ahmad Hudoyo, Sp. P, pulmonary specialist who is active as a lecturer in the Department of Pulmonology Faculty of medicine, acute bronchitis can be caused by infection or materials that stimulate, including chemicals. Irreversible nature of chronic bronchitis (persistent or can not be cured) and progressive, meaning that more and more severe disease.
"The cause of chronic bronchitis are irritants, free radicals and toxic gases that are irritating for some twenty years continuously. These harmful gases contained in cigarette smoke," beber physicians who completed the specialist field of pulmonology at the Faculty of medicine and oncology training lung in Toranomon Tokyo.
According to him, those who experience this disease can be seen from the main symptoms experienced coughing. When the cause of infection, will be accompanied by fever and cough of yellow sputum.
The diagnosis of chronic bronchitis actually pretty to look at symptom-gajala earlier. X-rays needed to exclude other diseases. Laboratory tests are necessary is the examination of pulmonary physiology to assess the severity degree of shortness of breath (obstruction) it.
There really is not good medicine to cure this disease. But drugs and oxygen needed to relieve the symptom. When there are signs of an infection, antibiotics are needed.
"Because the main cause of this disease from smoking, then smoking must be stopped. Long-term treatment is the use of oxygen at home. When the disease worsens with shortness of breath meninjol, meaning that the patient was dependent with O2, the oxygen must be used continuously," suggested the doctor Friendship Hospital lung specialist Jakarta.
Similarly, bronchitis, lung cancer causes are also caused by smoking. Deployment often happens that to the builders, liver, brain and kidney gland. Of the 100 people who suffer from lung cancer, 90 of whom turned out to have a history of previous smoking habits.
Added by him, a common symptom of cough (dry or with phlegm), chest pain, shortness of breath, coughing up blood, decreased appetite and weight dropped drastically. Choice of treatment depends on the type and stage of cancer or the stage (degree).

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