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The health of the lungs and other organs of the respiratory system is the main guarantor of human well -being. Their clear, coordinated, high -performance work is the key to the optimal quality of life. Prevention helps to prevent diseases and optimize the functionality of the respiratory system.
Unfortunately, the human respiratory system does not always cope with its functions and performs the task assigned to it by nature. In this case, we can talk about various diseases of the respiratory system, in particular, lungs.
In just a few years, breathing pathologies can take third place in the rating of the most common. It should be remembered that any pulmonary pathology can become deadly.
The pathology of the lungs includes pneumonia, chronic obstructive lung disease, tuberculosis, lung cancer.
Some lung diseases in numbers and facts
Unfortunately, the human respiratory system does not always cope with its functions and performs the task assigned to it by nature. In this case, we can talk about various diseases of the respiratory system, in particular, lungs.
It should be remembered that any pulmonary pathology can become deadly. Important information about some of the most common.
Pneumonia
According to medical statistics, it takes fourth place among all ailments that are potentially fatal to people. Even today, despite the fairly high level of development of modern medicine, different for the reasons, the course of the disease, united under the collective name “pneumonia”, sometimes lead the patient to the tragic ending, selecting the life itself. It is difficult to say exactly how many episodes of pneumonia actually happen annually in the world, mainly among the population of economically dysfunctional countries. After all, some cases simply remain undiagnosed.
Most often, fatal pneumonia is for the most disadvantaged, persons without a specific place of residence, inhabitants of the elderly houses, old people, children. And also for the disabled and those whose health was undermined by chronic diseases of the respiratory system, cardiopathology, injuries, etc. Small pneumococcal infection is the most frequent culprit of lung inflammation in Russians. According to official figures, children in our country are sick by its “mercy” in 94 cases out of 100, adults in 76 out of 100. Humanity is threatened by an atypical variety of a disease that is difficult for diagnosis. Sneaking "on soft paws", she sometimes masks behind a banal viral infection. It is difficult to recognize it, since the primary symptoms of pneumonia are hidden behind secondary ones.
Chronic obstructive lung disease
In the international classification, its name sounds that way. But a separate line for chronic obstructive lung disease (COPD) was allocated relatively recently, in 1998, on the basis of the adopted joint document of the World Health Organization and the American Institute of Heart, Light and Blood. The word "disease" is used precisely in the plural, combining in essence the different stages of the actual obstructive disease and some other pathologies. For example, tuberculosis. About 14 million patients are registered in the United States. With the symptoms of COP, according to the results of the study of the global alliance in combating chronic respiratory diseases (under the auspices of WHO), over 22 million Russians are well known. The World "national team" has 600 million patients. Every second on our planet through her fault, at least one person parted with life. The highest mortality among people with a diagnosis of COPD is registered in Hungary. Of the 100 thousand of all deaths that take the lives of the inhabitants of this country, 41.4 is the result of this disease.
Tuberculosis
This is previously known as a well -known name "consumption" a very serious disease of the lungs, as many centuries ago, continues to take human lives.
The health of people was increasingly threatened by resistant or resistant drugs of the form of pathology.
Lung cancer
Every year in the world this pathology is first diagnosed in a million patients. 60% of them, despite all the efforts of modern medicine, expects an unfavorable prognosis. A formidable disease remains problem No. 1, as it leads in the number of deaths among other oncopathologies.
The success of treatment for lung cancer is directly associated with the speed of seeking medical help. If the disease is diagnosed, and the fight against it begins in the early stages, 80% of patients have real hope for recovery. When a person does not pay attention to alarming symptoms, stubbornly does not go to the doctor or ignores medical recommendations, the chances of surviving are rapidly reduced. Among those who decided to wave their hand to their own health, the risk of dying for two years increases to 87%.
What Prevention of respiratory system pathologies?
A huge role in the prevention of various breathing pathologies is assigned to specific prevention (vaccination), which allows you to form an immunity to a certain disease. Nonspecific prevention consists in combating the negative factors of life, provoking the development of pronounced clinical manifestations of lung diseases after their asymptomatic or erased course and determine their subsequent development.
Important! Among the negative factors, smoking (including passive) can be put in the first place. It is this pernicious habit that increases the risk of developing respiratory oncopathologies 30 times! The success of the treatment and prevention of respiratory pathologies directly depends on timely diagnosis. Periodic observation of the state of human lungs allows you to recognize the disease even in the earliest stages. The study of the dynamic changes in the lungs is indicated primarily to the primary patients who have symptoms of pathologies of the respiratory system, people with previously detected chronic diseases in order to monitor the condition and evaluate the effectiveness of treatment (it is not only about lung diseases, but about many other pathologies associated with them), patients before any surgery, smokingers, workers, employees harmful industries and residents of environmentally unfavorable regions.
How to avoid problems with lungs? It is necessary to adhere to several rules: to abandon addictions, avoid hypothermia, spend more time in fresh air, maintain optimal temperature and humidity in the room, regularly do wet cleaning, engage in sports, take a contrasting shower, avoid stress, consume healthy and useful foods, follow the drinking regime, undergo an examination, do a lung orgent or ranger Fluorography.
Walks in the fresh air are good for health. Blessedly affects the respiratory organs of sea and coniferous air, so annually it is necessary to relax in the forest or on the coast of the sea. In the period of epidemics of colds, take antiviral drugs for prevention, avoid crowded places, limit contacts with sick people.
