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by Barb Keck
As a COPD patient, you must get as much fresh air as possible. During a smog or fog, try to stay indoors and away from polluted air or if you are outside, put on a mask to cover your nose and mouth. Every fall, don’t forget your influenza vaccine!
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Also see your doctor to establish a fitness routine that would control your COPD symptoms and to regulate breathing. Everyday walk would be very helpful to get the blood going and for oxygen to access the bloodstream.
As for medications, your doctor will prescribe what’s right for you based on laboratory and breathing tests. Bronchodilator is one of the drugs that would relax the muscles around the breathing tubes, enabling the air to travel in and out more easily. If you were coughing up mucus, corticosteroids would be effective to reduce the swelling in the breathing tubes. Besides drugs and antibiotics, syrups are available alongside with dry powder inhaler (DPI) and metered-dose inhaler (MDI). It’s impossible to cure it but the damage can be slowed down.
For further reading:
Breathe Right Now After a diagnosis of COPD and/or asthma, I did what I always do. I set out to learn as much as possible. A wonderful, comprehensive and hopeful book for anyone diagnosed with COPD. Written in understandable terms, with a great resources section to help you be in control of this disease.
The Chronic Bronchitis and Emphysema Handbook A highly recommended in depth book on COPD. An excellent book that covers in detail, the disease, medication and natural remedies to manage COPD – their pros and cons, and how to live and cope with the various stages of COPD.
Other articles you may find interesting:
What is COPD?
Prevention of COPD
Tests for COPD
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