Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Lung Disease Threatens Big City Residents


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Besides the heart, the lungs are one of the vital organs for human life. The lungs play an important role in the respiratory system. This organ exchange oxygen from air with carbon dioxide from the blood. Without the lungs, you will be disturbed oxygen demand.

Not only that, there's more work the other lung. Lungs selecting and removing bad particles that enter through the respiratory tract, such as dust or chemicals from pollution.

Unfortunately, we often lack attention to lung health. In fact, indicators of impaired lung health is quite easily visible. For example, difficulty breathing when walking fast or frequent coughing. Smokers and people who often sleep late at night was not immune from the threat of decline in lung function.

Lung health in order to keep us awake, Internal Medicine Specialist Hospital Mochtar Riady Comprehensive Cancer Centre (MRCCC) Siloam Hospitals, Jakarta, Martin Rumende advise us to check the condition of the lungs.

"So we know what happens in the lungs. Do not know-know you have been hit by chronic illness," said Martin.

Prepare a respiratory protective

Diseases that damage the health of your lung disease is categorized as Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). Chronic lung disease is characterized by the presence of air flow resistance in the airways that are progressive non-reversible or partially reversible.

The cause of airflow obstruction in COPD are chronic bronchitis, emphysema, or a combination of both. Chronic Bronchitis is a respiratory disorder characterized by chronic cough with phlegm for at least three months in a year without the influence of other diseases.

While the anatomic pulmonary emphysema is characterized by dilation of airspaces distal to terminal bronchioles and alveoli accompanied by damage to the wall. Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma Lung Association Physician of Indonesia said, often, people with chronic bronchitis showed signs of emphysema.

Not only that, tuberculosis or TB disease caused by the bacterium mycobacterium tuberculosis is also a threat. This disease is transmitted through saliva splashes when patients cough. There is also a pneumonia caused by an infection in the lung tissue (parenchyma). Generally, the infection is caused by mycoplasma bacteria peneumoniae.

Lung cancer is the most frightening specter for the body. Because, according to medical data, lung cancer, including cancers that cause many deaths worldwide, as well as cervical cancer in women.

It had been so, this cancer disease, as he entered the advanced stage, can grow and spread to other parts of the body. According Suhanto Kasmali, Head of Medical Services Mediros Hospital, Jakarta, lung disease is a serious threat for those who live in big cities with high pollution levels, such as Jakarta.

Therefore, everyone needs to prepare a tool that can protect the respiratory system, such as masks. In fact, a mask is obligatory for motorists as well as those working in construction, like a painter, or a chemical factory workers. Well, did you care about your lungs?

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