I strongly agree because information about lung disease / breathing is very important especially for those of you who live in the suburbs of Jakarta. respiratory or pulmonary disease can be caused by several factors among which are dust, smoke, vehicle pollution, animal fur, and so on. the impact of lung disease were:
A.
Tuberculosis (TB)
• 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 for more than three weeks. Can also issue a cough accompanied by blood.
Patients will have a fever, especially in the afternoon or evening, sweating at
night. Decreased appetite, resulting in a thin body.
• Prevention and
solution: If there are friends, neighbors or family members who experience
these symptoms, you should be advised 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 caught early are not too expensive and easy to cure
because there are already drugs provided by the government. When required,
patients with TB may also be quarantined in a special place so as not to
transmit the disease.
2.
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 important role in this disease, if there are parents
or grandparents who suffer from this disease can be reduced to the children or
grandchildren.
• Allergies to things
like dust, temperature changes, humidity, excessive exercise or emotional
stress can cause allergies, so the membrane that lines the vessels to swell and
excessive mucus so that the vessels become narrow and people with breathing
difficulties. Although an attack of shortness of breath may go away, but heavy
attack if left untreated can cause death because the patient can not breathe.
• Symptoms: Shortness
of breath sounds with wheezing (wheezing) Prevention and solution: Avoid things
that can cause allergies in people, causing asthma attacks. For example, by
cleaning the dust on a mattress, pillow or blanket. Avoid extreme temperatures
and humidity, piaran animals or foods that may cause allergies.
• Treatment: To cope
with an asthma attack is to use reliever medication (bronchodilator) inhaled
way. Another way is to do a therapy that will teach you how to relax and catch
your breath in the event of an asthma attack. When asthma is severe, it can use
the drug daily until relief of asthma attacks can be controlled. Thus, it is advisable
for the sufferer to always carry a reliever medication wherever he goes in
order to be used in case of attack.
3.
Bronchitis
• Cause: bronchitis
disease due to inflammation of the bronchi (the tubes that carry air into the
lungs). The reason could be due to bacteria infection, bacteria or viruses.
Other causes are cigarette smoke, dust, or air pollutants.
• Symptoms: fever
accompanied by cough or phlegm is yellow when it is caused by bacterial
infection. Meanwhile, when is chronic, productive cough and shortness of breath
for a few months to several years.
• Prevention and
solution: Increase endurance is one of the precautions that can be done.
Meanwhile, to prevent chronic bronchitis is to stop smoking also avoid
secondhand smoke to avoid exposure to secondhand smoke is very dangerous.
• Treatment: For
treatment when it is caused by bacteria or germs can be overcome by taking
antibiotics as directed by your doctor. If caused by a virus, commonly used
drugs to relieve symptoms.
4.
Pneumonia
• Cause: Pneumonia is
an infection that occurs in lung tissue (parenchyma) caused by bacteria,
viruses or fungi. Generally caused by streptococcal bacteria (Streptococcus)
and the bacteria Mycoplasma pneumoniae.
• Symptoms: Coughing up
phlegm with a thick, yellow sputum, chest pain, and shortness of breath
accompanied by high fever.
• Prevention and
solution: Always maintain cleanliness and keep the immune system stay strong to
prevent the bacteria can not penetrate the defenses of the body's health. Get
used to wash hands, eat a nutritious diet or exercise regularly.
• Treatment: If you
have been suffering from pneumonia, usually cured by taking antibiotics.
5.
Emphysema
• Causes: Emphysema is
caused due to loss of elasticity in the alveoli. Alveoli themselves are bubbles
present in the lungs. In patients with emphysema, lung volume is greater than a
healthy person because the carbon dioxide should be expelled from the lungs
trapped inside. Cigarette smoke and the lack of the enzyme alpha-1-antitrypsin
is the cause of loss of elasticity in the lung.
• Symptoms: Shortness
of breath in a long time and can not be cured with commonly used drugs lozenges
shortness of breath. And decreased appetite and weight loss are also common in
patients with emphysema.
• Prevention and
solutions: Avoiding smoking is the best way to prevent this disease. Quitting
smoking is also very important.
6.
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 lungs 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 cells of the airways and
lead to cancer cells.
Another cause is the
radioactive radiation, toxic chemicals, stress or heredity.
• Symptoms: Coughing,
chest pain, shortness of breath, coughing up blood, fatigue and weight loss.
But as in other types of cancer, symptoms usually only emerge if the cancer has
grown large or has spread.
• Prevention and solutions:
Avoiding smoking and secondhand smoke are also lots of nutritious foods that
contain lots of antioxidants to prevent cancer cells.
Because lung disease
primarily caused by cigarette smoke, then you should immediately cease this
practice and do not try to start for those who never smoked Belm. Avoid
exposure to secondhand smoke for an even more dangerous than active smokers.
Pulmonary care, avoid lung disease, and you can breathe more easily. Moreover,
when information is disseminated or held in the scatterplot counseling about
the importance of keeping and maintaining healthy lungs - pulmonary our
existing civic directly on the outskirts of Jakarta. Jakarta will be free of
respiratory disease.
