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Respiratory Diseases

This document discusses respiratory diseases, their causes, and common conditions. Respiratory diseases can be caused by obstruction or constriction of the airways, loss of lung surface area, or issues with lung capillaries. Hazards like occupation, genetics, smoking, pollution, and asbestos can damage the lungs. Common respiratory diseases include asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), chronic bronchitis, emphysema, lung cancer, cystic fibrosis, pneumonia, and pleural effusion. Symptoms vary but often involve difficulty breathing, coughing, and production of mucus.

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Respiratory Diseases

This document discusses respiratory diseases, their causes, and common conditions. Respiratory diseases can be caused by obstruction or constriction of the airways, loss of lung surface area, or issues with lung capillaries. Hazards like occupation, genetics, smoking, pollution, and asbestos can damage the lungs. Common respiratory diseases include asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), chronic bronchitis, emphysema, lung cancer, cystic fibrosis, pneumonia, and pleural effusion. Symptoms vary but often involve difficulty breathing, coughing, and production of mucus.

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RESPIRATORY DISEASES

Why do these diseases happen? wheezing, asthma episodes and


chest pain.
 obstruction to the airway
5. Environment (radon gas)
 constriction of the passages
 Includes effects of air pollution
 loss of the extensive surface area of
alveoli for gas exchange  Radon gas decays into solid
radioactive particles that can get
 difficulties with the capillaries
trapped in your lungs when you
surrounding these alveoli, either due to
inhale them.
clots or due to altered cardiac function.

6. Asbestos
 These illnesses can be chronic
conditions/temporary infections  irritate and scar lung tissue, causing
 They could also simply be minor the lungs to become stiff. This
changes to the breathing pattern, as makes it difficult to breathe
seen with hiccups.

Hazards that can affect our lungs Common Respiratory diseases

1. Occupation 1. Asthma
 Jobs that involve harmful chemicals  common, chronic respiratory
or gas can damage your lungs condition
 Ex: miners, cleaners, construction  causes difficulty breathing due to
workers inflammation of the airways.
 Asthma symptoms include dry
2. Genetics (Family history) cough, wheezing, chest tightness
 Any respiratory disease can run in and shortness of breath.
your family
 Ex: if asthma is prominent in your 2. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
family history, there’s a possibility (COPD)
you could get it also  an umbrella term that encompasses
several respiratory illnesses that
3. Smoking (secondhand) cause breathlessness, or the inability
 Cigarette smoke can narrow the air to exhale normally.
passages and make breathing more  Symptoms: shortness of breath, and
difficult. normally cough up sputum (mucus
 It can cause chronic from the lungs), especially in the
inflammation/lung cancer morning.
 can be tricky for some people to
4. Pollution (e.g., smog) identify, because symptoms are
 Breathing in air pollutants can irritate often mistaken for the gradual aging
your airways and may cause process and body deterioration
shortness of breath, coughing,
RESPIRATORY DISEASES
 can develop over the course of cells, or a tumor. These tumors
several years without any signs of interfere with the regular functions of
shortness of breath.   the lungs.

3. Chronic Bronchitis 6. Cystic Fibrosis


 form of COPD emphasized by a  a genetic respiratory disease caused
chronic cough. by a defective gene that creates
 Usually people cough up sputum thick and sticky mucus that clogs up
(mucus from the lungs), especially in tubes and passageways.
the morning. People can also  This mucus causes repeat, and
develop acute bronchitis, which is dangerous, lung infections, as well
not a long-term disease but rather an as obstructions in the pancreas that
infectious problem. prevent important enzymes from
 It develops from a viral or bacterial breaking down nutrients for the body.
infection and can be treated with
antibiotics. 7. Pneumonia
 common lung disease caused by an
4. Emphysema infection in the air sacs in the lungs.
 serious respiratory disease, which is  The infections can be bacterial, viral or
another form of COPD. fungal.
 most common cause is smoking  Most people can recover in one to three
weeks, but for certain people,
 Those who suffer from emphysema
pneumonia can be extremely serious
have trouble exhaling air from their and even life-threatening. 
lungs. Cigarette smoke damages the
air sacs in the lungs to a point where 8. Pleural effusion
they can no longer repair  collection of fluid between the lung and
themselves. the chest wall in what’s called the
 Emphysema evolves slowly over the pleural space. The fluid can collect for a
years, and there is no cure; however, variety of reasons, including pneumonia,
those who quit smoking are more cancer or congestive heart failure.
likely to see the disease’s  Usually, patients notice symptoms of
progression slow. increasing chest discomfort and
shortness of breath.
5. Lung Cancer
 With the ability to develop in any part
of the lungs, this cancer is difficult to
detect.
 Most often, the cancer develops in
the main part of the lungs near the
air sacs.
 DNA mutations in the lungs cause
irregular cells to multiply and create
an uncontrolled growth of abnormal

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