Archive for the '4.4 Respiratory system' Category
Signs and symptoms Shortness of breath. Chronic, mild cough sometimes with sputum. Weight loss. The term used interchangeably with emphysema, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Emphysema is very common and in most cases due to prolonged smoking, heredity and even earlier on asthma may also have some influence. Cigarette Smokers have the greatest chance of getting [...]
January 7th, 2011 | Onderwerp uit hoofdstuk 4.4 Respiratory system | Geen reacties
Signs and symptoms Attacks of shortness of breath. Cough. Tightness of the chest. Wheezing Asthma is characterized by spasms of the muscles in the lining of the airways. Under normal circumstances the muscles in the wall of the bronchi only together as a protective response to prevent harmful substances into the lungs. In asthma, these [...]
January 7th, 2011 | Onderwerp uit hoofdstuk 4.4 Respiratory system | Geen reacties
Signs and symptoms Cough. Physical activity is not tolerated. Repeated pneumonia. Chronic diarrhea. Shortness of breath. Loss of appetite. Shortage of salt and heat exhaustion in hot weather. Cystic fibrosis or CF is a hereditary disease that affects both the airways and affects the digestive tract. It is the most common, fatal, inherited disease and [...]
January 7th, 2011 | Onderwerp uit hoofdstuk 4.4 Respiratory system | Geen reacties
Signs and symptoms There are often no symptoms. Generally unwell. Fever. Shortness of breath especially on exertion. Emaciation. The cause of sarcoidosis, also called Besnier-Boeck disease, is unknown. The disease can be almost any part of the body damage, including skin, eyes, peripheral nerves, liver, lymph nodes and heart, but 90 percent of cases the [...]
January 7th, 2011 | Onderwerp uit hoofdstuk 4.4 Respiratory system | Geen reacties
Signs and symptoms Shortness of breath. Feeling fatigue and weakness. Loss of appetite and weight loss. Cough. Interstitial lung diseases are a group of more than one hundred eighty chronic diseases, non-malignant and non-infectious. These diseases are characterized by the infiltration of inflammatory cells in the walls of the alveoli, leading to abnormal scar tissue [...]
January 7th, 2011 | Onderwerp uit hoofdstuk 4.4 Respiratory system | Geen reacties
Signs and symptoms Shortness of breath. Fever. Decreased blood pressure and rapid pulse. Cough. Pain on the side of the atelectasis. Shock. Atelectasis is the overlap (collapse) of a portion of the lung, or sometimes an entire lung (collapse). The cause blockage or obstruction of a bronchus, in most cases by a mucus plug, but [...]
January 7th, 2011 | Onderwerp uit hoofdstuk 4.4 Respiratory system | Geen reacties
Signs and symptoms Often not. Sometimes chest pain. Shortness of breath sometimes. When a pneumothorax (collapsed lung) is present in the pleural air outside the lung, but within the chest. The medical term for this is pneumothorax. When a spontaneous pneumothorax occurs, it is usually the result of the bursting of a bubble on the [...]
January 7th, 2011 | Onderwerp uit hoofdstuk 4.4 Respiratory system | Geen reacties
Signs and symptoms None. Cough, sputum which specifies indent that sometimes contains blood. Shortness of breath. Pain in the chest. Hoarseness. Loss of appetite and weight loss. In the Western world, lung cancer is the most common of all cancers. Lung cancer is most common in men. A major cause of lung cancer is smoking. [...]
February 21st, 2011 | Onderwerp uit hoofdstuk 4.4 Respiratory system | Geen reacties
Materials in the workplace can make for lung disease. This can happen when hazardous substances are inhaled long. One of the most likely disease is asbestosis. This comes in different forms. Also a known lung disease is the miners. Also silicosis is well known. When working in agriculture or industry, one additional well to pay [...]
February 21st, 2011 | Onderwerp uit hoofdstuk 4.4 Respiratory system | Geen reacties
Signs and symptoms Pain in the chest. Shortness of breath. Less likely to tolerate physical activity. Cough (sometimes). Asbestos was once widely used as insulation. This was used until 1975. It was then replaced by other materials such as glass wool. Recently it has even forbidden to use or handle asbestos. Asbestos has four types [...]
February 21st, 2011 | Onderwerp uit hoofdstuk 4.4 Respiratory system | Geen reacties
Signs and symptoms Shortness of breath. Cough, sputum that is specified (in some cases). Below, two types of black lung are discussed. We’ll talk about the miners and black lung lung silicosis. Both have black lung as a cause inhalation of dust particles, these particles are broken without cough. The miners lung is caused when [...]
February 21st, 2011 | Onderwerp uit hoofdstuk 4.4 Respiratory system | Geen reacties
Approximately 2% of people who have asthma, the cause has to do with the work one does or the environment where one lives. Some substances have side effect because they can cause asthma, wood dust, grain dust, tobacco, pollen (pollen types), synthetic dyes, and WD-gum arabic. For them there is a chance that asthma is, [...]
February 21st, 2011 | Onderwerp uit hoofdstuk 4.4 Respiratory system | Geen reacties
The lung disease is an allergic alveolitis due to exposure to organic dusts. The names of these fabric types are derived from the profession in which they occur. The most famous is probably the farmer’s lung. When the dust grain farmer’s lung that causes the disease. You also have the bevochtigerslong, this is caused by [...]
February 21st, 2011 | Onderwerp uit hoofdstuk 4.4 Respiratory system | Geen reacties
This, like asthma, disease is not uncommon for people working in the production of cotton, or jute and hemp rope. The disease is sometimes called brown lung fever and Monday. Byssinose is caused by substances inhaled from bales of raw panels do. People who work with cotton and other fibers during the time they are [...]
February 21st, 2011 | Onderwerp uit hoofdstuk 4.4 Respiratory system | Geen reacties
The disease that miners and workers who are exposed to cotton, flax or hemp dust bronchitis who have called industrial bronchitis. Also, ammonia, strong acids, organic solvents, chlorine, sulfur dioxide, hydrogen sulfide and bromine bronchitis. It is not known whether the bronchitis is caused by substances which employees come into contact. Also possible that bronchitis [...]
February 21st, 2011 | Onderwerp uit hoofdstuk 4.4 Respiratory system | Geen reacties
Where persistent dust from moldy hay is opgeademd, a farmer may cause lung. The people who get this disease after opademen is fortunately very low. The people who have suffered from a farmer’s lung, the dust from moldy hay opgeademd also quite long. Asthma has no chance of this ailment. People who already suffer from [...]
February 21st, 2011 | Onderwerp uit hoofdstuk 4.4 Respiratory system | Geen reacties
Shiloh Work Disease is an acute disease caused by inhaling fumes from wet silage. The gas thus created is nitrogen. Nitrogen dioxide was irritating to bronchi and lungs when inhaled. It depends on how long the farmers already working in the silo, how severe the disease. Thus it is possible that the farmer dies in [...]
February 21st, 2011 | Onderwerp uit hoofdstuk 4.4 Respiratory system | Geen reacties
The functioning of the heart and the lungs is closely interconnected. Every time the blood through the heart, it will also stop by there to the lungs to absorb oxygen. Where there is a blood clot forms in one of the arteries and then come off (we can speak of an embolus) and blood through [...]
February 21st, 2011 | Onderwerp uit hoofdstuk 4.4 Respiratory system | Geen reacties
Signs and symptoms Sudden shortness of breath. Pain in the chest. Feeling fear. Cough, with bloody sputum (phlegm) is specified. Sweating heavily. Alarming phenomenon Sudden loss of consciousness. An embolus is a foreign material. It is a small knob that usually occurs when a blood clot. It can also prevent a fat bubble, a bubble, [...]
February 21st, 2011 | Onderwerp uit hoofdstuk 4.4 Respiratory system | Geen reacties
Signs and symptoms Chronic cough with sputum specified. Shortness of breath on exertion. Wheezing. Weakness and rapidly developing fatigue. Swollen veins in the neck. Edema (swelling due to fluid retention) of feet and legs. Enlargement and tenderness of the liver. Cor pulmonale means that an enlargement of the right ventricle is a lung disease. This [...]
February 21st, 2011 | Onderwerp uit hoofdstuk 4.4 Respiratory system | Geen reacties
By making changes in lifestyle, more exercise and extra attention to food. Often this treatment is most effective medication for high blood pressure to address. Because hypertension can be caused by various reasons, there are a lot of drugs. The doctor will decide for you which medicine is best for your type of high blood [...]
April 9th, 2011 | Onderwerp uit hoofdstuk 4.4 Respiratory system | Geen reacties