Asthma is a respitory inflammatory disease prevalent in the lives of many Australians‚ this condition has been though to be brought on through a client’s genetics or environmental factors such as air pollution. Asthma can often be categorized through a patients noticable and long-term symptoms which will be detailed through out this case. This case study for the patient depicted dislosures the pathophysiology and management of an asthmatic process. Though there is no cure for asthma‚ there are a
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Pneumonia‚ Restrictive or Obstructive Pulmonary Disorder Medically pneumonia can be explained as infection of the lungs‚ this infection can be either bacterial‚ viral or fungi infection in which the air sacs may fill with pus and may become solid. Inflammation can affect both lungs (double pneumonia)‚ only one lung (single pneumonia) or can be only in certain lobes (lobar pneumonia). As the air sacs may fill with fluid this can produce cough with pus or phlegm‚ fever‚ chills‚ and difficulty breathing
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Overview Asthma is a chronic lung disease. People who have asthma have inflamed‚ narrowed airways which make it difficult to breathe. They may experience wheezing‚ chest tightness‚ shortness of breath and coughing which is often at night. Swollen airways can produce an excess of mucus which can make the airways even narrower (see appendix A). In some cases asthma symptoms are minimal and go away on their own however sometimes they are exacerbated‚ this is called an asthma attack. Treatment
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to asthma‚ when in fact‚ it is actually COPD. Being able to determine the difference between asthma and COPD is a factor in effect treatment for the two diseases. Although‚ it is extremely difficult to distinguish asthma and COPD‚ there are some characteristic that establish a difference between the two. COPD consists of two lung diseases‚ chronic bronchitis and emphysema‚ which both impedes airflow. COPD occur in patients that are habitual smokers however‚ symptoms seldom become evident before the
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to get lung cancer just by being around it at all. For example‚ smoking causes wrinkles in your skin‚ emphysema‚ and can cause chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Wrinkles form around the corners of a person that smokes mouth and makes the person look older than what they really are. Emphysema is a type of lung disease which makes it hard to breathe and is deadly. Chronic obstructive pulmonary
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Nurses must be able to assess and conclude whether a senior may have risk factors that could affect their health. There are many tools available to us to determine if various conditions will put our senior at risk and if so‚ we are able to teach and guide them toward proper solutions to help alleviate or eliminate deterioration of their health. The purpose of this paper is interview and assess a friend of the family. I will give a brief social history of the senior‚ conduct a nutritional screening
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dangerous. People‚ whose history is of years of smoking‚ will eventually cause the disease that they will die of. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)‚ is a disease that manifests itself with the symptoms of dyspnea (a difficult time breathing) and cyanosis (lack of oxygen in the blood‚ causing the skin to appear blue). COPD is manifested with both emphysema and chronic bronchitis; in lawmen terms these diseases are called the pink puffers and blue bloaters (Crowley). The pink puffers usually
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substances that damage our lungs and other respiratory organ while inhaling. It seriously affects larynx and trachea which in turn result in the permanent killing of lungs. Long-term smoking causes harsh side effects like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease‚ lung cancer‚ emphysema and chronic bronchitis. 2. Cardiovascular Health Effects – Smoking causes the narrowing of blood vessels and arteries by depositing several toxic substances. This affects their normal functioning‚ and causes high blood pressure
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According to Lung.org cigarette smoke has over 4‚800 chemicals with sixty-nine known chemicals to cause cancer. Even with just one inhale all of those chemicals will enter the lungs. Cigarette smoke has been also connected to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) such as chronic bronchitis and emphysema. On top of COPD‚ cigarettes also cause the lungs to shrink and turn black‚ thus causing inability to breathe deeply and less oxygen in the blood
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or to relieve stress. Major diseases caused by smoking We all know smoking is bad for our health. Most people know that smoking can cause lung cancer‚ but it can also cause many other cancers and illnesses. Smoking directly causes over 100‚000 deaths in the UK each year and contributes too many more. Of these deaths‚ about 42‚800 are from smoking-related cancers‚ 30‚600 from cardiovascular disease and 29‚100 die slowly from emphysema and other chronic lung diseases. Cigarettes contain more than
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