Identify Lung Disease

RMRendro on Dec 7, 2011

Tags: asthma, Dyspnea, Respiratory disease

This vital organ is one of the vital organs for human life. Particular function in the human respiratory system. Served as a place to exchange oxygen and removing carbon dioxide humans are needed which is a result of the rest of the breathing process that must be removed from the body, so the body’s need for oxygen remain unfulfilled.

The air is very important for humans, do not inhale oxygen for several minutes can cause death. That’s an important part of the lung. Organ located below the ribs are indeed has a daunting task, not to mention the increasingly polluted air we breathe as well as a variety of germs on the loose in the air. These all can cause various lung diseases.

Symptoms such as coughing, shortness of breath, or pain in the chest area may indicate that something is wrong with your lungs. With more quickly detect it, this will help keep the disease is no longer and worse. The following information about the various problems in the lungs and their prevention and solution, hopefully it can help to detect the health of your lungs.

1. Tuberculosis (TBC)

Cause: The disease tuberculosis is caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The disease can be transmitted through saliva splashes when the patient coughs.
Symptoms: Coughing up phlegm more than three weeks. Can also be accompanied by a cough that bled. Patients will have a fever, especially in the afternoon or evening, sweating at night. Decreased appetite resulting in weight to be skinny.
Prevention and solution: If there are friends, neighbors or family members who experience these symptoms, you should suggest to consult a doctor to determine if the cough is TB disease or not. Because sometimes a cough illness often considered trivial, but this disease can kill someone if not treated immediately and can be transmitted to others.
Treatment: Treatment for tuberculosis when it is known from an early age really is not that expensive and easy to cure because there are already drugs provided by the government. When required, patients with TBC may also be quarantined in a special place so as not to transmit the disease.

The disease is also true is one disease that has been conquered, but later returned to attack. One of them is because people with tuberculosis are not spending their medication. Drugs must be taken regularly for 6 to 9 months to cure this disease. No drug can cause sufferers to spend can not be cured and no longer able to cause the drug fight germs because germs become resistant.

2. Asthma