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WHAT IS IT?
Asthma narrows and clogs the airways in your lungs. If you have it, you can breathe normally most of the time, but not during an asthma attack, when tiny airways called bronchial tubes swell and fill with mucus. Then you will cough, wheeze, and have trouble breathing.
Attacks can come on fast. They may last only a few minutes but usually go on for hours, or even a day or longer. Continue reading →

WHAT IS IT?
Asthma narrows and clogs the airways in the lungs. A child who has it can breathe normally most of the time, but not during an asthma attack. Then tiny airways called bronchial tubes swell and fill with mucus, making the child cough, wheeze, and gasp for breath.
Asthma attacks often come on fast. They may last only a few minutes, but they can go on for hours, even a day or longer. In a severe attack, the airways become so narrow and clogged that breathing is nearly impossible. Then your child may need emergency treatment. Continue reading →

WHAT IS IT?
Acute bronchitis is a common ailment marked by coughing and sometimes a fever. Since it’s usually caused by a virus, it spreads easily from person to person. Every year more than 12 million Americans get acute bronchitis.

People tend to get acute bronchitis in the winter. Attacks can come on quickly, with constant and sometimes painful coughing. You may be home for a few days. Acute bronchitis is usually not a serious ailment, but if you have a chronic lung disease such as emphysema or asthma, it can cause problems: A bad case of it can turn into pneumonia. But if your heart and lungs are healthy-and if you take proper care of yourself-acute bronchitis almost always clears up in one or two weeks and vanishes along with the infection that brought it on. Continue reading →

WHAT IS IT?
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a catch-all term for two lung diseases: chronic bronchitis and emphysema. Both are almost always caused by smoking and both do long-term damage to your lungs. You can have each separately or both at once.
Chronic bronchitis irritates and narrows the air passages in your lungs, causing “smoker’s cough.” (Chronic means you may have the disease for the rest of your life-with symptoms that come and go.) This illness affects more than 14 million Americans. Continue reading →

Asthma is a complex disorder and its treatment must be tailored to the specific factors involving each individual. Such factors include the severity of the problem, the response (or lack of response) to treatment as determined by measurements of breathing capacity, triggers that set Continue reading →

Bronchiectasis (brong-key-ECK-tuh-sis) is a chronic lung condition in which there is an abnormal expansion (dilation) of the bronchial tubes. The problem may involve one or more segments of one or both lungs. Continue reading →

Pulmonary embolism occurs when blood clots travel to the lung and lodge in the lung arteries. The clots come from clot formations (thrombi) in the veins, particularly in the legs and pelvis, that dislodge and travel in the bloodstream through the right chambers of the heart and into the branching arteries that provide blood to the lungs. If the size of the blood clot that enters the lung is massive, Continue reading →

Pleurisy is a term used to describe inflammation of the pleura, the membrane that lines the chest cavity and covers the lungs. It typically causes sharp pain in the affected side of the chest and is aggravated by breathing. At times, it is associated with fluid in the chest cavity. Continue reading →