Common Respiratory Diseases
A chronic respiratory condition that causes difficulty breathing due to inflammation of the airways. The symptoms include dry cough, wheezing, chest tightness and shortness of breath.
What is Asthma?
This disease is also called hypertension, it means the force is higher than it should be. It can damage your heart and lead to heart disease, stroke, or kidney disease.
What is high blood pressure?
A respiratory illness that has caused the most recent pandemic.
What is COVID - 19?
A genetic respiratory disease caused by a defective gene that creates thick and sticky mucus that clogs up tubes and passageways. This mucus causes repeat, and dangerous, lung infections, as well as obstructions in the pancreas that prevent important enzymes from breaking down nutrients for the body.
What is Cystic Fibrosis?
It hardens the arteries, occurs when plaque builds up on the walls of your arteries and eventually blocks blood flow.
What is atherosclerosis?
A great cause for most respiratory diseases.
What is Smoking?
A form of COPD emphasized by a chronic cough. Usually people cough up sputum (mucus from the lungs), especially in the morning. This happens because mucus glands in the airways increase output, and patients have to cough that extra secretion out.
What is chronic bronchitis?
When not enough blood reaches your heart.
What is a heart attack?
Disease is known as the "silent killer".
What is High Blood Pressure?
An umbrella term that encompasses several respiratory illnesses that cause breathlessness, or the inability to exhale normally. People usually experience symptoms, including shortness of breath, and normally cough up sputum (mucus from the lungs), especially in the morning.
What is
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease?
When the heart muscle is weakened or damaged. And it can no longer pump the volume of blood needed through the body.
What is heart failure?
The acronym FAST - what it stands for and what it applies to.
What is a test to determine is someone is having a stroke.
F-Face drooping, A- Arm weakness, S- Speech Difficulty, T- Time to call 911
A serious respiratory disease, which is another form of COPD. The most common cause is smoking. Those who suffer from have trouble exhaling air from their lungs.
What is emphysema?
It occurs when a blood clot blocks an artery in the brain and reduces the blood supply.
What is Stroke?
Three ways to avoid respiratory ilnesses.
What is trying to maintain a healthy weight, get adequate sleep, decrease stress, add plenty of activity and eat a balanced diet?