Danger of Cigarettes For Lung Health

CAUSE lung disease can come from many internal and external factors (environment). Internal factors are influenced by both genetic yourself and in your own body. While many come from external causes air pollution and chemicals are inhaled primarily from cigarette smoke.

One of the diseases resulting from tobacco smoke and lung often diidap by patients was bronchitis. The disease is called inflammation of the airways, and there are two types, namely acute and chronic. According to Dr. Ahmad Hudoyo, Sp. P, pulmonary specialist who is active as a lecturer in the Department of Pulmonology Faculty of medicine, acute bronchitis can be caused by infection and stimulating materials, including chemicals. Irreversible nature of chronic bronchitis (persistent or not able to recover) and progressive, meaning that more and more severe disease. "The cause of chronic bronchitis is irritants, free radicals and toxic gases that are irritating for some twenty years continuously. These harmful gases contained in tobacco smoke," beber physicians who completed the specialist fields of pulmonology at the Faculty of medicine and oncology training lung at Toranomon Tokyo. According to him, those who experience this disease can be seen from the main symptoms experienced coughing. When the cause of infection, will be accompanied by fever and cough of yellow sputum. The diagnosis of chronic bronchitis is actually just look-gajala symptoms earlier. X-rays needed to exclude other diseases. Laboratory tests are necessary is the examination of pulmonary physiology to assess the degree of severity of shortness of breath (obstruction) it. There really is not good medicine to cure this disease. But drugs and oxygen are needed to relieve the symptom. When there are signs of an infection, antibiotics are needed. "Because the main cause of this disease from smoking, then smoking must be stopped. Long-term treatment is the use of oxygen at home. When the disease worsens with shortness of breath that meninjol, meaning that the patient had hung with O2, the oxygen must be used continuously," suggested the doctor Friendship Hospital lung specialist Jakarta. Similarly, bronchitis, lung cancer is also caused by smoking. Frequent deployment of the artisan, liver, brain and kidney gland. Of the 100 people who suffer from lung cancer, 90 of whom turned out to have a history of previous smoking habits. Added by him, a common symptom of cough (dry or with phlegm), chest pain, shortness of breath, coughing up blood, decreased appetite and weight dropped drastically. Treatment options depend on the type and stage of cancer or the stage (degree). "To know the type of biopsy is usually performed in order to distinguish the benign tumors (tumors) or malignant (cancerous). With a biopsy, we can distinguish whether a tumor is benign (tumor) or malignant (cancer)," he explained. If the cancer is, it can be differentiated type and know what type of drug that must be given. Once the type is known, then determined the degree of cancer.(nsa) (Sumber: lifestyle.okezone.com)