Lung Disease; Bronchitis

Bronchitis is one of common lung disease and one of most common lung disease that occur in upper respiratory tract infection. There are two kind of bronchitis, acute and chronic, each of which has unique etiologies, pathologies, and therapies.

1. Acute bronchitis
   It is characterized by the development of a cough, with or without the production of sputum, mucus that is expectorated (coughed up) from the respiratory tract. Acute bronchitis often occurs during the course of an acute viral illness such as the common cold or influenza. Viruses cause about 90% of cases of acute bronchitis while bacteria account for less than 10%.
   

Lung Disease; Pneumonia

Pneumonia is an infection of the lung, caused by bacteria, viruses or fungi

Pneumonia is a common illness among lung disease that occurs in all age. Pneumonia is a leading cause of death among the elderly and people who are chronically and terminally ill. Additionally, it is the leading cause of death in children under five years old worldwide. Pneumonia has caused death to more than 50,000 American each year.

Lung Disease; Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis or TB (short for Tubercles Bacillus) is a common and often deadly infectious disease caused by mycobacteria, usually Mycobacterium tuberculosis in humans.  Tuberculosis usually attacks the lungs but can also affect other parts of the body. It is spread through the air, when people who have the disease cough, sneeze, or spit. Most infections in humans result in an asymptomatic, latent infection, and about one in ten latent infections eventually progresses to active disease, which, if left untreated, kills more than 50% of its victims.

Asthma

Asthma is a lung disease that one of the most common chronic disease worldwide. Asthma patient keep increasing each year and mostly among children. During WHO, asthma costs more than HIV and tuberculosis combined.*

Asthma has caused 4,000 death in USA each year, and there are 300 million people diagnosed with asthma worldwide. Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disorder of the airways in which many cells and cellular elements play a role.

Lung Disease; Emphysema

Emphysema is a chronic respiratory that caused an enlargement of the air spaces in the lung, causing a decrease in lung function, and often, breathlessness.

Those who had emphysema, their lung need to support the physical shape and function of the lung are destroyed. It is included in a group of diseases called chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or COPD (pulmonary refers to the lungs). Emphysema is called an obstructive lung disease because the destruction of lung tissue around smaller airways, called alveoli, makes these airways unable to hold their functional shape upon exhalation.

Lung Disease

There are a lot of lung disease out there, since our surrounding can be the cause of one of lung disease, such as smoke, radon, etc. These are things that we meet daily and almost in everyplace, however, lung disease cause can be come from our own family (genetic), that we cannot avoid it. Some of lung disease are really hard to detect its symptoms since, their symptoms more likely shows when these lung disease already in advance stage. All of this can occur since our lung has 'overbuilt' characteristic, its mean our lung can extent more and have a tremendous reserve volume as compared to the oxygen exchange requirements when at rest.

This is the reason that people can smoke for years without having a noticeable decrease in lung function, and noticeable lung disease. Lung cancer is one of lung disease that kills many people due to its symptoms that shows when its too late.

Lung Cancer

Lung cancer is the major problem in the world, anyone can get lung cancer. Breast cancer may make women thrilling, yet prostate cancer may scare men, even though lung cancer patient not as much as other, but it has caused death more than any cancer.

For years, lung cancer patient keep increasing. For few decades before, majority of lung cancer patient are men, but nowadays lung cancer has increased among women even more than in men. Its all due to past few decades women start smoking and many various habit just like men do.