Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  A diet rich in fruits, vegetables, fish, and whole-grain foods offers protection against chronic lung disease, as well as a lot of other aging-related diseases. But unlike lots of other examples, we're not exactly sure why. Nevertheless, the difference in lung disease rates between folks on the highest- versus lowest-quality diets was almost fivefold. So even if you are gasping, go for the nutritious goodies. | | How does that relate to lung disease? Well, certain illnesses can mimic the effects of being unfit, but, unfortunately, at much lower levels of exertion than simple exercise, so that even crossing a room, getting the mail, or doing a lap around the coffee table can lead to major huffing and puffing.
To understand all of the ways that damage to your lungs can keep you from having a good air-exchange rate, it will help to think about the structure of lungs (see Figure 6.1). |
Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan
See book keywords and concepts |  Johnny Carson, the late, late-night comedian and Bluish Skin, below), and other signs of cyanosis, blue nails can signal lung disease or peripheral arterial disease (PAD), among other circulatory problems. (See Chapter 7.) The nails of people with Raynaud's disease, which is considered a PAD, will sometimes turn blue, usually in response to cold or stress, then go back to normal once circulation returns. Blue nails can also signal a reaction to medications, such as antiviral drugs and the antibiotic tetracycline. | | Smell loss can also signal a whole host of other medical disorders including diabetes, hypothyroidism, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, lung disease, and even schizophrenia.
Finally, loss of smell can be a very early sign of the neurological disorders Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. (See Chapter 7.) Unfortunately, both of these conditions are often missed or misdiagnosed in their early stages. Smell testing is an important diagnostic tool to help differentiate these neurological disorders from other disorders. | | Though looking at yellow eyes, red noses, and blue lips may horrify us, we shouldn't turn away, because these unattractive anomalies may reveal important clues to serious underlying conditions, such as liver or lung disease.
While the head contains the brain, the torso holds all of our other vital organs: the heart, stomach, liver, kidneys, breasts, and reproductive system. These body parts produce many subtle and easily ignored body signs that can sometimes signal serious disorders. | | It can also be a clue that a person is suffering from epilepsy or a thyroid, liver, or lung disease. People with DD may also have other rare connective tissue disorders, including Peyronie's disease, which causes the penis to bend. (See Chapter 8.)
If, however, only one finger is locked in a curled position, it's a surefire sign of a trigger finger—medically known as stenosing tenosynovitis.
This condition tends to affect people who engage in repetitive hand and finger movements at work or play, such as at a computer keyboard. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
See book keywords and concepts |  Unproven Uses: In folk medicine it is used for digestive disorders accompanied by diarrhea, dyspeptic disorders, chronic diarrhea in patients with lung disease, subacidic gastritis, and chronic entercolitis.
The drug is used in some European countries as an antidiar-rheal agent because of its morphinelike side effects. precautions and adverse reactions
Health risks or side effects following the proper administration of designated therapeutic dosages are not recorded. Higher dosages of the drug may trigger vomiting and pains in the epigastrium. | | Respiratory Effects: A 17-year-old male high-school student died of rapidly progressive inflammatory lung disease that developed hours after smoking a clove cigarette. The student was recovering from a lower respiratory infection at the time. The California Department of Health Service and Centers for Disease Control collected 110 cases of clove cigarette toxicity by 1984, two of which were fatal. Clove cigarettes have been reported to cause acute respiratory problems in humans that rapidly progress to hemorrhagic pulmonary edema or pneumonia (Guidotti et al, 1987). |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | In folk medicine, the drug has been used for lung disease, kidney and bladder complaints, as well as externally for poorly healing wounds.
PRECAUTIONS AND ADVERSE REACTIONS
No health hazards or side effects are known in conjunction with the proper administration of designated therapeutic dosages. In rare cases, external administration of the drug led to sensitization.
DOSAGE
Mode of Administration: Comminuted herb for infusions and other galenic formulations for internal use; comminuted herb preferably for cold maceration and other bitter-tasting preparations for internal use. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Result: Millions of women subject their children to non-natural child birthing that results in an increased risk of lung disease afflictions as well as psychological birthing trauma lasting a lifetime.
Worried about your child getting an infectious disease? Inject your children with multiple vaccines. It will protect them from infectious disease and may, in fact, protect them from oral sex! (At least that's what Merck claims.) Besides, there's nothing wrong with a little mercury, right? Result: Unknown. It's a great medical experiment now being conducted on the children of America. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
See book keywords and concepts |  Amla is used in treatments for allergies, anemia, asthma, bleeding gums, bronchitis, cancer, colds, colitis, constipation, debility, diabetes, dysuria, flatulence, gastritis, gingivitis, gout, hair loss, heart palpitations, hemorrhoids, hepatitis, hypertension, indigestion, jaundice, liver weakness, lung disease, osteoporosis, prematurely graying hair, scurvy, spleen weakness, tuberculosis, vertigo, vision weakness, and yeast infection. It is also used to encourage convalescence and to prevent wrinkles. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Many have had some connection with asbestos, often because of old insulation materials at home, work, or school, but few are likely to be personally acquainted with someone with actual asbestos-related lung disease. In contrast, most people directly know someone who has had carpal tunnel syndrome or may even have been diagnosed themselves with this condition. Given its current frequency, why is it that until ten or fifteen years ago hardly anyone had ever heard of carpal tunnel syndrome? Surely this is a prime example of a truly modern or even a postmodern industrial illness. | | In describing spinner's phthisis is the same review, Kay explicitly captures the nature and progression of a lung disease he found particular to cotton workers. To this day, Kay's personal observations hold up as a classic description of the early to middle stages of a new disease that only later came to be called byssinosis:
The disease induced has appeared to me to differ from ordinary chronic bronchitis. In the commencement of the complaint, the patient suffers a distressing pulmonary irritation from the dust and the filaments which he inhales. | | Proust eruditely noted that a German medical authofity on occupational disease, in suggesting that the lung disease among textile workers might best be called lyssinosis, mistakenly substituted an / for what should have been a b, for byssos (Greek for "fine fiber"). Proust's correction to byssinosis went on to become the accepted medical term.
It is ironic, but fitting, that the first appearance of the term byssinosis in an English-language text, in a scientific article on pneumoconiosis published in 1881, was little more than a dismissive aside. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Preterm infants have been shown to be deficient in vitamin A, which may predispose them to development of chronic lung disease.52 Healthy pregnant women who developed preeclampsia were shown to be deficient in vitamin A (but not beta-carotene).53 Preeclampsia is a potentially dangerous condition characterized by high blood pressure, swelling, and/or protein spilling into the urine.
To avoid complications, supplementation with no more than 6,000 units of vitamin A is optimal and recommended. |
Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Emphysema and Chronic
^ nchitis (chronic obstructive lung disease)
S& chronic bronchitis and emphysema are two different lung disorders, which often occur in combination and result in obstruction of the airways. When bronchitis and emphysema occur together, the condition is called chronic obstructive lung disease (COLD—formerly called chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD). Chronic bronchitis is characterized by excessive production of mucus in the bronchial passages, and it is sometimes associated with chronic infection and/or asthma. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
See book keywords and concepts |  British population for diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, myocardial infarction,, stroke, lung disease, and cancer." England spends about 40% per capita of the United States total on health care. Yet the authors conclude that "Americans are much sicker than the English."34
Thus, do we learn a painful lesson: we are not healthier than others, though we spend an inordinate amount of time and money looking for our diseases in their earliest stages, and though we take more than our share of prescription drugs, few of which do much good.
These findings are a national scandal. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
See book keywords and concepts | | Unproven Uses: Used internally for micturition complaints resulting from benign prostate hyperplasia, cystitis (South Africa/decoction) and lung disease (Botswana). It is used externally as a vulnerary (Africa). Efficacy for these indications has not yet been proved. precautions and adverse reactions
No health hazards are known in conjunction with the proper administration of designated therapeutic dosages. dosage
Mode of Administration: Whole and cut drug preparations for internal and external use.
How Supplied: Commercially produced capsules. |
Bottom Line Health
See book keywords and concepts | | He says that trouble breathing is often a tip-off to the physician that a patient may have some underlying lung disease, maybe even heart failure.
But until now, only a few small studies have looked at whether dyspnea is a predictor of cardiac events, Rozanski says.
The bottom line: "People who have developed shortness of breath without any obvious lung problem should consider whether it is of cardiac origin," Berman says.
A SIGN OF TROUBLE
"For years, cardiologists have focused on chest pain as the primary symptom" of heart problems, Rozanski says. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Whether the smoke you're breathing is from your own cigarette or someone else's, it ages your arteries, increases your risk of heart and lung disease, weakens your immune system, and promotes cancer.
YOU Tool: Quit Smoking
1. Start walking thirty minutes every day-no excuses, every day. Start this on day one: one month before quitting.
2. Talk to your doctor about getting prescriptions for bupropion* 100-milligram tablets and nicotine patches (21 - or 22-milligram patches if you have a one-pack-a-day habit). Ask your doctor for adjustments if you smoke more than one pack a day. | | Nevertheless, the difference in lung disease rates between folks on the highest- versus lowest-quality diets was almost fivefold. So even if you are gasping, go for the nutritious goodies.
Major Ager
(Hycosylation
How Excess Glucose Can Age You
Most of us can spot the obvious signs of aging: hair that's thinner than a supermodel's waist, body parts that give in to gravity, and joints that creak louder than old farmhouse floors. | | The reason why lung disease is one of the top six causes of aging, according to our government, is that we are continually renewing the very thin and sensitive cells in the lungs so that we can exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide. As the stem cells that regenerate these cells start to slow down, the renewal process lags, and the lungs scar (a process called fibrosis) and become resistant to air exchange. The Major Ager of shortened telomeres also slows down our stem cells, so the damage is compounded. The process of breathing is kind of like taking sandpaper to your lungs. |
Marshall Editions
See book keywords and concepts |  To treat chronic bronchitis: When bronchitis occurs in smokers, or ex smokers with chronic lung disease, treatment involves taking antibiotics and using an inhaler. Ampicillin, cephalosporins, tetracylines, sulfonamides, and azithromycin are the antibiotics commonly used. These are prescribed, along with an inhaler that relaxes the lungs and eases breathing.
Preventive measures: To prevent bronchitis from recurring, identify and eliminate allergens from your diet and the immediate environment. Dairy is a food that is commonly associated with respiratory problems. | | Infants, the elderly, and people with heart or lung disease are more prone to complications.
• Feeling lethargic and tired
• Sore throat
• Cough
• Feeling under the weather and rundown
SYMPTOMS
TREATMENT GOAL
• An elevated temperature (above 98.6°F)
It is usually possible to treat flu at home. Stay in bed and get as much rest as possible. A bad attack of flu can last for up to two weeks. It is not unusual to feel extreme fatigue for a couple of weeks afterwards. Both conventional and complementary therapies aim to relieve symptoms and encourage recovery as quickly as possible. | | In patients who do not smoke or have lung disease, bronchitis will usually resolve without medical therapy. Rest, fluids, and deep-breathing practices will help ease symptoms. High doses of vitamin C may also be ^ helpful. Occasionally, coughing can interfere with sleep. In these cases, a non-sedating cough suppressant such as benzoate is effective. The cough should be allowed if it is tolerable as it helps to eliminate the virus. Inhalers such as albuterol are sometimes prescribed, but not generally in routine and uncomplicated cases. |
Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan
See book keywords and concepts | | If a smoker doesn't already have a lung disease, having very wrinkled skin can be a warning sign that he or she is at increased risk of developing a serious one, especially emphysema or other chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). (See Bluish Skin, above.)
SIGNING OFF
Many diseases and disorders can first be spotted on the skin in the form of nodules, papules, pustules, patches, and petechiae, to name a few. Many of these skin signs may seem at first sight to be simply cosmetically displeasing. But they shouldn't necessarily be ignored or covered over. |
Bottom Line Health
See book keywords and concepts | | People who have a medical condition that places them at high risk for complications from influenza, including those who have chronic heart or lung disease, such as asthma or reactive airway disease.. .those who have diabetes or kidney failure.. .those who have illnesses that weaken the immune system...or anyone who takes medications that can weaken the immune system.
•Children or adolescents taking aspirin. •People who have a history of Guillain-Barre syndrome, a rare nervous system disorder. •Pregnant or nursing women. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
See book keywords and concepts |  REDUCED COUGH WITH PHLEGM: A study conducted in Singapore found an association between increased dietary fiber from fruit and reduced risk of certain types of lung disease. There was an inverse relationship between cough with phlegm and fruits particularly high in flavonoids, such as quercetin and catechins found in pears.
WEIGHT LOSS: A study found that diets high in fruits, such as pears and apples, helped women between the ages of 30 and 50 to lose weight. After 12 weeks, those women who ate pears and apples lost on average over three pounds. |
Bottom Line Health
See book keywords and concepts | | We should think of shortness of breath not only in terms of lung disease," Rozanski adds. "We might need to screen a little more deeply for coronary artery disease. Someone with dyspnea might have a heightened need to undergo stress testing or other screening."
Rozanski says the study is already affecting decisions on stress testing in his practice. Now, when evaluating the need for an individual to have a stress test, he includes such factors as age, chest pain and gender (men are more likely to be referred for the test). | | The drug's benefits are tempered by its potential toxicity. lung disease is one of the drug's side effects.
. - More information on amiodarone is avail-— able from Drug Digest at www.drugdi gest.org. Click on "Drugs & Vitamins" in the pulldown menu under "Drug Library."
Real Cause of In-Flight Blood Clots
Frits R. Rosendaal, MD, PhD, professor of clinical epidemiology of haemostasis and thrombosis, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, the Netherlands.
Steven Deitelzweig, MD, chairman, hospital medicine, and president, medical staff, Ochsner Clinic Foundation, New Orleans.
The Lancet. |
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