COPD
Five things my patient should know
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is a chronic disease with persistent symptoms like cough, breathlessness
- COPD is an irreversible disease which means the amount of damage happened to lungs cannot be reversed but we can prevent further damage
- Smoking is the most common cause for this condition followed by pollutions, industry smokes, automobile exhaust
- In villages exposure to biomass fuel (cow dung, kerosene, wood) combustion is main cause for COPD in females
- Smoking cessasation and inhalers prescribed by pulmonologists are main mode of treatment
- Please don’t use tablets and inhalers given in medical shop, it will worsen your condition and increase side effects
Frequently Asked Questions
Ans: You are a smoker, smoking is the main cause for COPD
Ans: There are two reasons
- You live in a polluted city like Chennai exposed to industrial pollution, automobile exhaust etc
- Early in your adulthood you may be exposed to biomass fuel combustion like burning woods, cow dung etc
Ans: COPD is an irreversible disease which can be kept symptomatically free but we cant reverse the damage, only option for cure is lung transplantation