Archive for the 'Pulmonology' Category

Vaccine – a drug for healthy

Ask any parent, that he would prefer for the child: heavy flowing illness or innocuous response to the vaccine with a guarantee of protection against subsequent infection?
It would seem that the answer is obvious.В So why do many educated mums and dads, the word “vaccination” to this day causes a seizure?
Perhaps still need to use the [...]

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Influenza is transmitted through the money

Scientists have found that money bills are one of the most persistent carriers of influenza virus – for them it can be stored for 5 days.
Data on how long the flu virus can remain on the banknotes were received during the research laboratory of Virology, Geneva University Hospitals. According to his results, which were announced at [...]

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Magic X-rays

Coming to the clinic even with the common cold, we sometimes hear: "To clarify the diagnosis will have to refer you to the X-ray.
And we are going to "radiate" or take a shot that the doctor was able to accurately determine the nature of pathology. But X-rays, these amazing rays, discovered by the German physicist Roentgen [...]

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5 receptions against cough

Tactics to combat a cough depends on its duration and nature.
It seems recovered, but a month continue to frighten others strong cough? So, properly treated. 
Some he tormented at night, the other overcomes the morning, for someone fairly sips of cold water or the frosty air that sounded painfully familiar "kha-kha" … a strategy: the more you [...]

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Broccoli can help protect the health of the lungs

Use broccoli helps prevent chronic lung disease.
It was proved that the composition of this vegetable antioxidants stop the degradation of NRF2, the key components of defense system against inflammatory processes, whose concentration decreases in lung injury.
Doctors at Johns Hopkins Medical School (USA) and the National Institutes of heart and lung (London, UK) have made such [...]

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Bronchitis season

Spastic breath in the throat – contrary tickle … Those who at least once experienced the charm of all bronchitis, remember this with a shudder.
Ce la vie: You – SARS
Bronchitis in the mouths of doctors – a composite diagnosis.В So doctors may call any inflammation of the bronchi: from bronchiolitis, striking bronchioles (small branches of the [...]

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Emphysema

The concept of emphysema combines increased lightness and decreased mobility of the lung tissue.
Most often affects all light (diffuse emphysema). Sometimes the swollen parts of light are combined with normal lung tissue. Such areas are referred to as bullae and emphysema bullosa.
What happens?
The main cause of the disease – chronic bronchitis. In fact, the result is the formation [...]

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Snoring

Snoring - a sonic phenomenon that occurs when beating each other soft structures of the pharynx against passage of the jet of air through narrowed airways.
Snoring Causes
Anatomical violations, leading to a narrowing of the airways:
curvature of the nasal septum
congenital narrowness of the nasal passages and / or throat
polyps in the nose
staphyloptosis
small lower jaw retrusion (a malocclusion)
increase [...]

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Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis - an infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis and characterized by the development of cell allergies, specific granulomas in various organs and tissues of the polymorphic clinical picture. Characteristically lung, lymphatic system, bones, joints, genito-urinary organs, skin, eyes, nervous system. If untreated, the disease progresses and ends fatally.
Infectious nature of TB was proved by German Robert Koch [...]

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Tracheitis

Tracheitis - inflammation of the mucous membrane of the trachea. There are acute and chronic tracheitis.
Acute tracheitis is rarely isolated, it usually occurs in conjunction with acute rhinitis, pharyngitis and laryngitis. The most common cause of acute tracheitis is a viral infection, rarely staphylococcus, streptococcus, etc. Development tracheitis contribute to the inhalation of dry, cold or dusty air, irritating [...]

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