| Lung Diseases |
| Diet and exercise for lung disease patients? |
What lung disease do you have? Please add to your question.
Exercise is the best way to keep muscle mass up. ... |
| Can you get black lung disease from working in gold mines? |
Black-lung disease is due to breathing unfiltered air.
Extreme temperatures, exhaustion and poor ventilation exact a high toll. Silicosis, or black-lung disease, caused by years of breathing unf... |
| What are the difference between Lung injury&active lung disease(according to ABG findings)? |
Lung injury is from something outside the body such as a vehicle crash, blunt trauma to the chest or a crushing injury. If the patient was in good health before, and they are breathing upon arriva... |
| What type of Lung Disease causes an other person to wear a mask during your visit? |
A contagious pneumonia. or tuberculous ... |
| What is the difference between active lung disease&lung injury? |
an active lung disease is when some disease has spread to the lungs, like pnuemonia or flu..... lung injury is when some sort of trauma has happened to the lungs, like blunt trauma to the chest cav... |
| Please tell me about interstitial lung disease/pulmonary fibrosis,it's cure? |
My brother has IPF and I have done alot of looking into this and all I can find is that this is a long slow death w/out a lung transplant. Then the survival rate is still low. My brother is still w... |
| Medication for long term diseases? |
The frequency of medication wholly depends upon a number of factors. Initially, the diagnosis, the extent of the illness, and the type of medication used. Many medications are prescribed to fit i... |
| Does lung transplant help in interstitial lung disease/pulmonary fibrosis?read ahead? |
Within the past 10 years there have been about 1000-1200 lung transplants each year. Lung transplants were first introduced in the late 1970s. Thus we've had about 30 years of lung transplan... |
| How did I get this disease granulomatois lung disease I need answers? |
Granulomatous Lung Diseases
Granulomatous lung diseases encompass a number of different diseases with varied etiology but common lung pathology. Granulomatous lung diseases may result from exposur... |
| CF pt. post lung transplant, cured of all lung disease? |
Not in the lungs ...
they are cured of the pulmonary cystic fibrosis because the donor's lungs should have different DNA and (hopefully) does not have the CF gene.
However - a new set of... |
| What other diseases resemble the signs and symptoms of TB and lung cancer? |
Black Lung. You dont happen to work in a coal mine do you?
Exposer to asbestos. ... |
| What percentage of people who smoke regularly end up dying from lung cancer or other smoking related diseases? |
Ironically, not as many as people that are exposed to second hand smoke for 8 hours or more a day-- like people who work in bars and don't smoke. Your lungs may be bad but to a nonsmoker, tha... |
| What research is being done in the field of children's interstitial lung disease? |
I too am Mom to a baby with an ILD, and I too am online looking for answers. I know how frustrating it is to read all sorts of stuff that really just does not apply, hoping to pick out the sentenc... |
| I am seeking the causal effects of breathing jet fuel over a period to obstructive lung disease? |
I don't know what nations military service you were in, but I'd bet they offered training and PPE as well as technical data for maintaining aircraft fuel systems.
Unless you can prov... |
| How to get black lung nurseing benefits in home? |
It depends. Does he have black lung as a result of working in a mine? What state do you live in? There are black-lung benefits, depending on numerous circumstances. Here is a place to start, from t... |
| Microwave Popcorn Linked to Lung Harm...? |
The only person to get sick from microwave popcorn fumes outside of employees who make it, ate two bags everyday for ten years and inhaled the fumes every time. ... |
| Interstitial Lung Disease? |
First let me say that I am sorry to hear that your father has an interstitial lung disease. There are different kinds of interstitial lung disease, but your mother is correct - all have a bad outc... |
| Popcorn Lung? |
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| Need to know wat is a standard lung function test and how it differs to normal lung function test? |
I am not sure what your question is. As far as pulmonary function tests go, there are tests as simple as a peak flow and simple Spirometry, and as complicated as a full PFT with plethysmography.
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| Who is a lung specialist? or physician? |
Pulamnologist are the Dr's who specialise in lung problems
Smoking affects 28 million americans per year
438,000 deaths per year and over 1100 children ... |
| Does anyone know of a person who suffers from the Asbestos illness the rare Lung Disease? |
Asbestos does indeed cause a rare form of lung disease called mesothelioma. It is because of the nature of the extremely small fibers that make up asbestos. Once the loose fibers are inhaled the st... |
| Why doesn't the American Lung Association recognize Catamenial Pneumothorax as a rare lung disease? |
Catamenial pneumothorax is a condition of collapsed lung occurring in conjunction with menstrual periods (catamenial refers to menstruation), believed to be caused primarily by endometriosis of the... |
| I want to know about interstitial lung disease? |
The abnormal accumulation of inflammatory cells in lung tissue may lead to any one of several disorders with similar signs and symptoms. As white blood cells and protein-rich plasma build up in the... |
| What is multi septic lung disease? |
multi means more than one and srptic means infection. Multi septic lung disease simply put .. More than one infection in your lungs... ... |
| A recent chest x-ray showed my left lung is about 1/4 cloudy at the bottom. What could this be? |
Pneumonia, for one thing. However, lacking any other symptoms, it's likely not. Even though you've never smoked, you live in an industrialized world. There's noplace on earth wher... |
| What is the cutoff age for getting a lung transplant? |
It is basically true, but last year the criteria for transplant lists and priorities was revised. More emphasis is placed on patient need, rather than how long he/she has been on the list. I don&... |
| Lung disease found in 1984 called blupe,bloupe,blup? |
Is is BOOP? Bronchiolitis Obliterans Organizing Pneumonia is very serious. It's rare however I have seen one person with it. He suffered for a long time.
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| Lung disease common among coal miners,stone cutters and sandblasters? |
Black lung ... |
| What is the status of lung transplant in med sci all over the world? |
According to 2007 statistics available from the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS):
There were more than 2,359 individuals on the waiting list for lung transplants and 115 are waiting for h... |
| Will lung disease or infection cause high blood pressure? |
You may have a real medical problem, but also, it may be just the stress of worrying about it. I can run my blood pressure when I begin excessive worrying about a lot of little things and before lo... |
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