This important organ is one of the vital organs for human life. Especially work on the human respiratory system. Served as a place of exchange of oxygen that humans need and remove carbon dioxide which is the result of residual respiratory process that must be removed from the body, so the body's need for oxygen remains fulfilled. The air is very important for humans, not menhirup oxygen for several minutes can cause death. That is the important role of lung. Organ located below the rib was indeed has a heavy duty, not to mention the more polluted the air we breathe as well as many germs floating around in the air. This 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. By detect it more quickly, this will help for this disease is not the longer and worse. The following information about the various problems in the lungs and their prevention and solution, hopefully may help to detect the health of your lungs.
Tuberculosis (TB)
* Cause: The disease tuberculosis is caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The disease can be transmitted through saliva splashes when patients cough.
* Symptoms: Coughing up phlegm for more than three weeks. It can also be accompanied by a cough that bleed. Patients will experience a fever, especially in the afternoon or evening, sweating at night. Decreased appetite resulting in weight being thin.
* Prevention and solutions: If there are friends, neighbors or family members who experience these symptoms, you should suggest to consult a doctor to see if the cough is TB disease or not. Because sometimes a cough illness are often considered trivial, but this disease can kill someone if not immediately addressed and can be transmitted to others.
* Treatment: Treatment for tuberculosis when it is known early really is not that expensive and easy to cure because there is a drug that provided by the government. If required, a patient with TB may also be quarantined in a special place so as not to transmit the disease.
This disease is actually also one of the diseases that have 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 lead drug fight germs because germs become resistant.
Asthma
* Cause: The cause of asthma is a temporary narrowing of the respiratory tract that can cause sufferers to feel shortness of breath. Vessel constriction occurs in the throat. Heredity plays an essential role in this disease, if there are parents or grandparents who suffer from this disease can be reduced to a child or grandchild.
Allergies to things like dust, changes in temperature, humidity, excessive exercise or emotional stress can cause allergies so that the membranes lining the vessels will swell and excessive mucus so that the vessels become narrow and people with difficulty breathing. Despite the shortness of breath attacks can go away, but severe attack if left untreated can cause death because the patient can not breathe.
* Symptoms: Shortness of breath accompanied by wheezing sound (wheezing) Prevention and solution: Avoid things that can cause allergies in people, causing asthma attacks. For example, by cleaning the dust on the mattresses, pillows or blankets. Avoid extreme temperature and humidity, piaran animals or food that can cause allergies.
* Treatment: To cope with asthma attacks is to use a salve medicine (bronchodilator) by inhaled. Another way is to do therapy that will teach you how to relax and catch your breath in case of an asthma attack. When asthma is severe, can take medication every day to salve asthma attacks can be controlled. Thus, it is advisable for sufferers to always carry a salve to any drug he can go for immediate use in case of attack.
Bronchitis
* Cause: Disease bronchitis due to inflammation of the bronchi (channels that carry air into the lungs). The reason could be due to germ infection, bacteria or viruses. Other causes are cigarette smoke, dust, or air pollutants.
* Symptoms: Cough with fever or yellow sputum when caused by bacterial infection. Meanwhile, when is chronic, cough with phlegm and shortness of breath for a few months to several years.
* Prevention and solution: Increase endurance is one of prevention can be done. Meanwhile, to prevent chronic bronchitis is to stop smoking also avoid cigarette smoke so as not to become passive smokers are very dangerous.
* Treatment: For treatment when caused by bacteria or germs can be overcome by taking antibiotics as recommended by your doctor. When caused by a virus, commonly used drugs to relieve symptoms.
Pneumonia
* Cause: Pneumonia is an infection that occurs in lung tissue (parenchymal) caused by bacteria, viruses or fungi. Generally caused by streptococcal bacteria (Streptococcus) and Mycoplasma pneumoniae bacterium.
* Symptoms: Coughing up phlegm with thick and yellow sputum, chest pain, and shortness of breath are also accompanied by high fever.
* Prevention and solutions: Always maintain cleanliness and keep the immune system stay strong to prevent the bacteria are not able to penetrate the defenses of the body's health. Get used to washing hands, eating nutritious foods or exercise regularly.
* Treatment: Where has suffered from pneumonia, is usually cured by taking antibiotics.
Emphysema
* Cause: Emphysema is caused by loss of elasticity in the alveoli. Alveolus itself is the bubbles contained in the lungs. In people with emphysema, lung volume is greater than healthy people because the carbon dioxide should be expelled from the lungs are trapped inside. Cigarette smoke and lack of enzyme alpha-1-antitripsin is the cause of loss of elasticity in the lungs of this.
* Symptoms: Shortness of breath in a long time and can not be cured with drugs commonly used in patients salve shortness of breath. Decreased appetite and decreased weight are also commonly experienced by patients with emphysema.
* Prevention and solutions: Avoiding cigarette smoke is the best way to prevent this disease. Quitting smoking is also very important.
Lung Cancer
* Cause: The cancer has become a deadly disease, even lung cancer is the first killer compared to other cancers. Tumor cells or cancer that grows in the lung experienced by patients with lung cancer. Cancer can grow in this tissue and can spread to other parts.
The main cause is cigarette smoke contains many toxic substances and inhaled into the lungs and has been accumulating for decades causing mutations in the airway cells and causes cancer cells.
Another cause is the radioactive radiation, toxic chemicals, stress or heredity.
* Symptoms: Coughing, chest pain, shortness of breath, coughing up blood, tiredness and weight loss. But as in other cancer types, symptoms are generally only visible when the cancer has grown large or has spread.
* Prevention and solutions: Avoiding cigarettes and cigarette smoke are also more nutritious foods that contain lots of antioxidants to prevent cancer cells.
Because the disease in the lungs primarily caused by cigarette smoke, then you should immediately cease this practice and do not try to start it for you who belm never smoked. Avoid also to be passive smokers are even more dangerous than active smokers. Love the lung, avoid the lung disease, and you can breathe more easily.
