All Entries in the "Respiratory Disorders" Category
Blue Bloater And Pink Puffer
These are commonly used terms for the Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary disease which is characterized by two categories of sufferers who may either be the pink puffers or the blue bloaters.
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary disease or COPD is a disease of the lungs that mainly afflicts smokers.
The Blue and Bloated Syndrome is most [...]
Breathing Problems? What Could They Mean?
A comment on our post about respiratory therapy was from a reader who has been suffering from breathing problems which her doctors did not seem to find any cause for concern; however breathing problems of any kind could potentially be very problematic and deserve medical investigation.
Here, we are talking about the [...]
Pleurisy – A Sign Of Terminal Heart Disease
Pleurisy, also known as “pleuritis”, an inflammation of the pleural membrane characterized by a stabbing pain felt within the chest region indicated with deep breathing, coughing or sneezing.
Chest pain is a severe manifestation that may indicate a critical heart attack. The discomfort might stay in one place, or may extend to [...]
Planning A Pregnancy? Get Your Pertussis Booster
Pertussis, also known as whooping cough, is a serious childhood illness. The disease is known as whooping cough because children who have it often make a distinctive whooping noise when they inhale.
It is important to note that not all children who fall prey to this bacterial disease will exhibit the [...]
COPD Patients At High Risk For Diagnosis Of Depression
Persons with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) appear to have significantly increased risk of developing depression when compared with other patients with chronic health condition like diabetes and other healthy individuals.
COPD is a progressive health condition that makes the affected persons hard to breathe.
This particular chronic breathing disorder can cause [...]
Natural Relief For Cough
Are you seriously worried about cough? Coughing not only annoys you, but also makes others surrounding you disturbed.
Whether it is due to your allergies, cold or other health issues, relief from cough is very important to make yourself comfortable.
How can you get relief naturally?
If you have wet cough, you don’t need to [...]
How To Spot Reactive Airway Disease In Children?
You have a small child who has a recurring cough or who seems to have shortness of breath frequently.
You go to the pediatrician for help and learn your child has something called reactive airway disease. The question is how terrified should you be for the health of your child.
There’s no need [...]
How To Identify Sarcoidosis To Prevent Health Complications?
Sarcoidosis is an inflammatory disease that mainly starts in your lungs or lymph nodes.
If it becomes persistent, then it becomes more potent to affect any organ in your body including skin, nervous system, eyes, heart and also liver.
This inflammation mainly involves production of tiny lumps of cells in different organs of [...]
Increased Risk Of Pulmonary Edema With Heart Disease!
Are you suffering with any heart disease? Then you can be at increased risk of developing pulmonary edema.
Pulmonary edema is usually associated with heart problem and involves accumulation of fluid and swelling in your lungs.
Human lungs contain large number of tiny elastic air sacs, which normally exchange gases involved in [...]
Some Health Conditions Can Be Responsible For Pleural Effusion!
Have you ever heard about “water in the lungs”, also called pleural effusion?
In general, very few amounts of pleural fluid are present in the pleural spaces of your lungs. This fluid is not detectable by your regular health check up or by any routine methods.
When this accumulation of fluid is high in [...]
