This important organ is one of the vital organs for human life. Especially working in the human respiratory system. Served as a place of exchange of the necessary oxygen and remove carbon dioxide humans are the result of breathing the rest of the process must be removed from the body, so that the body needs oxygen to remain satisfied. The air is very important for humans, not menhirup oxygen for several minutes can cause death. That is the important role the lungs. Organ located below the ribs is indeed a difficult task, not to mention the more polluted the air we breathe and the germs floating around the air. This all can lead to various lung diseases.
Symptoms such as coughing, shortness of breath, or pain in the chest area may indicate that something is wrong with your lungs. With more quickly detect it, it will help make this disease a long time and not getting worse. The following information about the various problems in the lungs and its prevention and solutions, may be helpful to detect the health of your lungs.
Tuberculosis (TB)
Cause: The disease tuberculosis is caused by bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The disease can be transmitted through saliva when people spray cough.
Symptoms: cough with phlegm for more than three weeks. It can also be accompanied by bleeding cough. Patients will experience a fever, especially in the afternoon or evening, sweating at night. Decreased appetite, which causes the body to be thin.
Prevention and solution: When a friend, neighbor or family member who suffered these symptoms, you should suggest to consult a doctor to see if the cough is TB disease or not. Because sometimes a cough illness is often considered trivial, but this disease can kill someone if not immediately addressed and can be transmitted to others.
Treatment: Treatment for TB when it is known from an early age are not too expensive and easy to cure because there has been government provided drugs. If necessary, patients with TB can also be quarantined in a special place so as not to transmit the disease.
This disease is also true is one that has conquered the disease, but later returned to attack. One of them is due to tuberculosis patients are not spending their medication. Drugs must be taken regularly for 6 to 9 months to cure this disease. Not spend the drug can cause people can not recover and lead a drug can no longer fight germs because germs become resistant.
Asthma
Cause: The cause of asthma is a temporary constriction of the respiratory tract that can cause sufferers to feel shortness of breath. Vessel constriction occurs in the throat. Heredity was instrumental in this disease, if there are parents or grandparents who suffer from this disease can be decreased to children or grandchildren.
Allergic to things like dust, temperature changes, humidity, excessive exercise or emotional tension that may mislead allergy membranes lining the vessels will swell and excessive mucus so that the vessels become narrow and the patient could not breathe. Despite the shortness of breath attacks can go away, but a heavy attack if not treated can cause death because people can not breathe.
Symptoms: Shortness of breath accompanied by wheezing sound (wheezing) Prevention and solution: Avoid things that can cause allergies in people, causing asthma attacks. Example by cleaning the dust on the mattresses, pillows or blankets. Avoid temperature and humidity extremes, piaran animals or food that can cause allergies.
Treatment: To overcome an asthma attack is to use a salve medicine (bronchodilator) inhaled way. Another way is to do therapy that will teach you how to relax and catch my breath in the event of an asthma attack. When asthma is severe, can take medication every day to salve an asthma attack can be controlled. Thus, it is advisable for sufferers to always take medicine salve wherever he went in order to be used in the event of an attack.
Bronchitis
Cause: Disease bronchitis due to inflammation of the bronchi (the channel that carries air into the lungs). Because the infection can cause germs, bacteria or viruses. Other causes are cigarette smoke, dust, or air pollutants.
Symptoms: cough with fever or yellow sputum, if caused by a bacteria infection. Meanwhile, when is chronic, cough up phlegm and shortness of breath for a few months to several years.
Prevention and solutions: Improve endurance is one of prevention can be done. Meanwhile, to prevent chronic bronchitis is to stop smoking also avoid secondhand smoke to avoid exposure to secondhand smoke is very dangerous.
Treatment: To treat if caused by bacteria or germs can be overcome by taking the doctor recommended antibiotics. If caused by a virus, commonly used drugs to relieve symptoms.
Pneumonia
Cause: Pneumonia is an infection that occurs in the lung tissue (parenchymal) caused by bacteria, viruses or fungi. Generally caused by streptococcal bacteria (Streptococcus) and Mycoplasma pneumoniae bacteria.
Symptoms: Coughing up phlegm with thick phlegm and yellow, chest pains and shortness of breath accompanied by a high fever.
Prevention and solutions: Always maintain cleanliness and keep the immune system stay strong to prevent the bacteria can not penetrate the body's health defense. Get used to wash hands, eating nutritious foods or exercise regularly.
Treatment: When has suffered from pneumonia, is usually cured by taking antibiotics.
Emphysema
Causes: Emphysema caused by loss of elasticity of the alveoli. Alveoli themselves are bubbles contained in the lungs. In people with emphysema, lung volume is greater than a healthy person because the carbon dioxide should be expelled from the lungs are trapped inside. Cigarette smoke and lack of the enzyme alpha-1-antitripsin is the cause of loss of elasticity of the lung.
Symptoms: Shortness of breath in a long time and can not be cured with drugs commonly used salve shortness of breath sufferers. Decreased appetite and decreased weight are also common in people with emphysema.
Prevention and solutions: Avoiding cigarette smoke is the best step to prevent this disease. Quitting smoking is also very important.
Lung Cancer
Causes: Cancer has become a deadly disease, even lung cancer is the first killer than any other cancer. Or cancerous tumor cells that grow in the lungs experienced by patients with lung cancer. Cancer can grow in this tissue and can spread to other parts.
The main cause is cigarette smoke contains many toxic substances and inhaled into the lungs and has accumulated over decades causing mutations in the airway cells and causes cancer cells.
Another cause is the active radio radiation, toxic chemicals, stress or heredity.
Symptoms: Coughing, chest pains, shortness of breath, coughing up blood, tiredness and weight loss. But as in other cancer types, symptoms are generally only visible when the cancer is growing or has spread.
Prevention and solutions: Avoiding cigarettes and cigarette smoke are also more nutritious foods that contain lots of antioxidants to prevent cancer cells.
Because the disease of the lungs, primarily caused by cigarette smoke, then you should immediately cease this practice and do not try to start it for you who never smoked belm. Also to avoid exposure to secondhand smoke is even more dangerous than active smokers. Loved the lung, avoid lung disease, and you can breathe more freely.
