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Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, causes, treatment and prevention of this serious lung disorder.
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What Causes emphazema?
smoking
What disesses can you get from smoking?
Emphazema, Heart Disease, Lung Cancer, Throat Cancer, etc
Where does the expresion 'Lame Duck'come from?
in calvary soldiers shot at horses flanks that had emphazema (spell check???)
What are the effects of tobacco on the body?
lung cancer, oral cancer, all different kinds of cancer. you can also get emphazema, rotten teeth, yellowing of the fingernails
Can breathing sea air affect emphazema?
Sea air, if anything, offers soothing benefits to persons suffering from emphysema and other respiratory illnesses. Even just being close to sea level helps because of the lower altitude.
What health problems cause shortness of breath in elderly people?
Causes of shortness of breath in the elderly: * Heart disorders * Lung disorders (such as emphazema) cancer. The elderly are more prone to bronchitis and pneumonia. * Lack of exercise. These are a few reasons. If you feel the person's skin is cold, clammy, a gray or yellow tinge to their skin, eyes are not fixed (meaning they can't follow your finger) then call the ambulance immediately.
How long does it take lungs to fill wuth fluid after clorine gas?
It depends on dosage and the individual person; all poisons have a rating called an LD50 - Lethal Dose for 50% of the population. It varies by exposure method (inhalation in this case) and the species (humans). Basically, it's the amount of poison needed to kill half the population you expose to it - they don't use 100% because, theoretically speaking, some oddity might exist in one of the test subjects that makes them immune (much more likely with complex poisons - chlorine gas is frighteningly simple, and alarmingly easy to make). Needless to say, legitimate research conducts LD50 tests on lab rats and the like - As far as I know, the only organization to legitimize poison gas testing on human subjects was Hitler's 3rd Reich. For most poisons, the effect is directly scalable by weight (a human weighing 100 times the weight of a rat can expect similar effects from a dose 100 times as large).Since Chlorine is an airborne poison, it's lethal dosage is measured in exposed concentration for a specified timeframe - as such, I think the lethal dose ratings are directly comparable; human lungs would resist damage from chlorine no better than those of a rat.According to a Material Safety Data, the LC50 (lethal conentration) is 293ppm for 1 hour. Everything I've heard about the effects of chlorine gas used in world war 1 suggests that people who survived gas attacks didn't have any progressive long term effects (Instant emphazema, blindness and horrific scarring, yes, but nothing that culminated in death), so I'd guess that, at that level of exposure, it'd take about an hour to die.Chlorine gas used as a weapon was delivered in muchhigher concentrations; what I've heard indicates that if you wound up in a gas cloud you didn't see coming (or otherwise failed to have a gas mask in place prior to exposure), you generally didn't make it, meaning the damage became debilitating in a few seconds (or you'd have time to get a mask on). I'd guess at such a concentration, the time it would take to be fatal would be at most a couple of minutes.Regardless of all this, even detection threshhold levels of chlorine gas can be harmful - the same safety sheet says that the maximum concentration of gas that one can work an 8 hour shift in without a mask is 1ppm.
What do cigaretts do to you?
Tobacco contains thousands of poisonous chemicals; probably the most dangerous is nicotineTobacco Smoke will also cause 'Bronchitis'.Bronchitis (pronounced: brahn-kite-uss) is an inflammation of the lining of the bronchial tubes, the airways that connect the trachea (windpipe) to the lungs. This delicate, mucus-producing lining covers and protects the respiratory system, the organs and tissues involved in breathing. When a person has bronchitis, it may be harder for air to pass in and out of the lungs than it normally would, the tissues become irritated and more mucus is produced. The most common symptom of bronchitis is a cough.Answer2: Smoking cigarettes . . . has been scientifically proven to harm nearly every organ in the body and to increase morbidity and mortality," says The Tobacco Atlas. It is well-known that smoking causes noncommunicable diseases such as cancer, heart disease, and lung ailments. But according to the World Health Organization (WHO), smoking is also a major cause of death from communicable diseases, such as tuberculosis. Although smoking temporarily relieves the stress of withdrawal symptoms, scientists have found that nicotine actually increases the level of stress hormones.Some studies indicate that over 80 percent of the cigarette smoke particles you inhale stay inside your body.While the risks increase with each cigarette you smoke, a few effects are immediate. Some people become addicted from just one cigarette. Your lung capacity will be reduced, and you'll likely develop a persistent cough. Your skin will wrinkle more and prematurely. Smoking increases your risk of sexual dysfunction, panic attacks, and depression.What Tobacco Does to Your BodyLook at the healthy people portrayed in cigarette ads; then compare those images with what smoking actually does to your body. Note the following: Smoking causes mouth and throat cancer.Heart Hardens and narrows arteries, starves the heart of oxygen, and increases the risk of heart disease by up to four timesLungs Destroys air sacs, inflames airways, and increases the risk of developing lung cancer by up to 23 timesBrain Increases the risk of stroke by up to four times; causes premature aging and wrinkling of the skin. Teeth become discolored, causes stomach, pancreatic, bladder and kidney cancer.Like a fish striking at bait, a smoker gets a reward but pays a terrible price
