Does anyone know of any good sites for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease?
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hi i am real familiar with this disease as i have had it for over 10 yrs now, you need to go to msn groups and join the group for copd, they are a terrific group of people and can help you out with support or web sites that you can visit for info. good luck with your search and remember to take one day at a time, there is no cure for this disease but, you can get better and live a half way normal life.sm
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Oi mat saleh, simply google the thing lah...\nAnyway, here are some links I found:\n\nhttp://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/c/chronic_lower_respiratory_diseases/stats-country.htm  (scroll down to find the asian stats)\n\nhttp://www.prb.org/datafind/datafinder7.htm (choose the country & whatever data you like)\n\nhttp://www.who.int/tobacco/media/en/Malaysia.pdf\n\n& the list continues, my friend... Perhaps you could try the Community Med txtbook (like Park's), but more specific to M'sia.
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Pink puffers... and chronic bronchitis patients are blue bloaters. Both are included under COPD.
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http://health.yahoo.com/centers/smoke_free/112\n\nhttp://www.epa.gov/iaq/asthma/shs.html\n\nhttp://www.lungusa.org/site/pp.asp?c=dvLUK9O0E&b=35422\n\nhttp://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/secondhandsmoke.html\n\nhttp://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/ETS_Toolkit/\n\nhttp://www.epa.gov/smokefree/index.html\n\nhttp://www.davehitt.com/facts/\n\nhttp://www.acsh.org/publications/pubID.346/pub_detail.asp\n\nhttp://www.toolworks.com/bilofsky/smoking.htm\n\nGood luck!
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Talk to the supplier of the lung cancer prescription.  Many drug companies have a program so supply prescriptions for free if you are in financial need.  Also mention this to your doctor.\n\nI sense, however, this isn't a serious question due to where it was posted.  \n\nIf it is true, good luck, as this type of cancer is particularly awful.  I hope that people currently smoking never have to know the pain and suffering of this disease - if they understood that, we'd have a lot fewer smokers!  :o)
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Everyone is right, it is Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, a catch all for emphysema, chronic bronchitis and asthma.\n\nIt is serious but not necessarily a death sentence. While it can be treated, it cannot be cured. With good medical care and monitoring ..it is possible to slow the progression of the disease.\n\nI don't know if it can be controlled with natural remedies. I, myself, am on Prednisone, Spiriva, Advair 250/50 and Xopenex via nebulizer 4 times a day as needed.\nI would be afraid to try any natural remedies because of the seriousness of COPD.\n\nYour Pulmonologist or Dr probably needs to do a Pulmonary Function test. Mine revealed a 58% lung capacity. Except for alot of shortness of breath..I still hold down a full time job--it is :however, a sit down job. There is some housework I cannot do and there are times...when just getting ready for work tires me out and leaves me breathless.\n\nYou will also notice that any respiratory virus that goes around will inevitably find it's way to you and go straight down into your chest...so if it is possible....avoid those who are sick.\n\nMost importantly---listen to your body. If you are short of breath..it is saying slow down and take it easy... Learn Pursed Lip breathing and get to the Dr at the first sign of a respiratory bug...there is nothing worse than ending up in the hospital with pneumonia or an exacerbation of COPD.\n\n~~Good Luck~~\n\nHere is a link to COPD International.\nYou might want to check the msg boards here, you can learn alot.\n\nhttp://www.copd-international.com/
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http://www.menshealth.com
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Good general webpage.\nhttp://www.pahealthsystems.com/\nAnd another\nhttp://www.ability.org.uk/support_groups_liver_disease.html
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This is not the best place for such scientific studies,try specialized sites such as: medscape or the Lancet journals
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THIS IS WORTH READING!   I was diagnosed with it in 2002, following severe and sudden breathing difficulty, mostly with exercise, then with even just walking on level ground!  After initial biopsy surgery, which followed three years of believing a doctor who was wrong, I was put on many different drugs, Isoniasid, Rifampin, Ethambutol, vitamin B6, as well as Prednisone which is supposed to alleviate the inflammation, but did not, or if yes, it only kept my condition from being worse than it was.  You're probably, or should be, having pulmonary function tests every three months.  That will tell your doc a lot about your condition.  But BEWARE, your diagnosis is not the word of the almighty - I went to Yale Univ Med and the Mayo Clinic, both said no to Sarcoidosis, probably Bronchiolitis, and that the biopsy slides were insufficient.  Now I'm off the Prednisone, and some better than before, but in my case, I also had a heart valve condition, now improved non-invasively.  But I do still have breathing problems that require supplemental oxygen at night and sometimes during the day.  Whatever you do, get a second, even a third opinion!  My Sarcoidosis was diagnosed at Mount Sinai in NYC, then I went to Yale, then the Mayo Clinic.  The best for lungs in the USA is supposed to be Denver Jewish Medical Center. You probably will need oxygen to fly.  Good luck to you!  canajo@yahoo.com
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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a general term for a group of diseases that cause progressive damage to your lungs. These diseases include chronic bronchitis, asthma and emphysema. Of the more than 16 million Americans with COPD, nearly 3 million have symptomatic emphysema and millions more are in the early stages of the disease before signs and symptoms appear.\n\nUnlike asthma, which occurs when the muscles in your airways tighten, emphysema causes a loss of elasticity in the walls of the small air sacs in your lungs. Eventually, the walls stretch and break, creating larger, less efficient air sacs that aren't able to handle the normal exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide.\n\nWhen emphysema is advanced, you must work so hard to expel air from your lungs that breathing can consume up to 20 percent of your resting energy. Unfortunately, because emphysema develops gradually over many years, you may not experience symptoms such as shortness of breath until irreversible damage has already occurred. Treatments focus on relieving symptoms and avoiding complications.\n\nreduced capacity for physical activity, both of which are likely to become worse as the disease progresses. In time, you may have trouble breathing even when lying down, and it may be especially hard to breathe during and after respiratory infections, such as colds or the flu.\n\nOther signs and symptoms of emphysema include:\n\nChronic, mild cough. You may produce sputum or phlegm when you cough. \nLoss of appetite and weight loss. It's a vicious cycle. Emphysema can make eating more difficult, and the act of eating can rob you of your breath. The result is that you simply may not feel like eating much of the time. \nFatigue. You're likely to feel tired both because it's more difficult to breathe and because your body is getting less oxygenWhen you inhale, air travels to your lungs through two major airways called bronchi. Inside your lungs, the bronchi subdivide like the roots of a tree into a million smaller airways (bronchioles) that finally end in clusters of tiny air sacs (alveoli). You have about 300 million air sacs in each lung. Within the walls of the air sacs are tiny blood vessels (capillaries) where oxygen is added to your blood and carbon dioxide — a waste product of metabolism — is removed. The air sac walls also contain elastic fibers that help them expand and contract like small balloons when you breathe.\n\nWhat happens in emphysema\nIn emphysema, inflammation destroys these fragile walls of the air sacs, causing them to lose their elasticity. As a result, the bronchioles collapse, and air becomes trapped in the air sacs, which overstretches them and interferes with your ability to exhale (hyperinflation).\n\nIn time, this overstretching may cause several air sacs to rupture, forming one larger air space instead of many small ones. Because the larger, less-elastic sacs aren't able to force air completely out of your lungs when you exhale, you have to breathe harder to take in enough oxygen and to eliminate carbon dioxide.\n\nThe process works something like this: Normally, you exhale in two ways, actively and passively. When you exert yourself and need more oxygen, your chest muscles contract, forcing air out rapidly. On the other hand, when you sit quietly, your diaphragm contracts and your chest muscles expand to take air in, but your muscles don't actively contract to let the air out. Instead, the elastic tissue around your air sacs contracts, and your lungs passively shrink.\n\nBut if you have emphysema, many of these elastic fibers have been destroyed, and you must consciously force air out of your lungs. The forced exhalation compresses many of your small airways, making expelling air even more difficult.\n\nMost common cause is smoking\nCigarette smoke is by far the most common cause of emphysema. The damage begins when tobacco smoke temporarily paralyzes the microscopic hairs (cilia) that line you
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Check out www.apta.org
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No , but there are terrible consquences of smoking like heart disease, stroke and lung cancer, go to the following sites for more info:\n\nhttp://www.quitnow.info.au/ (best anti-smoking site)\nhttp://www.quit.org.au/\nhttp://www.nsma.org.au/facts.htm\nhttp://www.healthinsite.gov.au/topics/Health_Effects_of_Smoking\n\n(They are australian sites because i'm from there_)
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Yahoo Health has some great resources. \nYou can search by ailment or area. \nI will include the links below. \n\nHope this helps.
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try a gravity bong....keep on smoking...you are keeping me in business as a respiratory therapist!! See you soon with a big tube down your throat....fool
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Try this:\n\nhttp://www.nursingcenter.com/library/search.asp?R1=V2&query=dyspnea&section=1&searchAll=1
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hello\n        this might be useful for u:-www.webhealthcentre.com\n\ngod bless all