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Will COPD turn into emphysema?
Mike_T says:
I know exactly how you feel, I was in a very similar situation. I remember that I was so nervous at that time and I took it out on everyone around me. I didnt know what could I do until, thanks god, I found Smoke Deter. Now I can look back and laugh on myself and in the same time I remember how helpless I was. I hope that I'll never be in the same situation again
COPD is a term used to describe a number of respiratory diseases, of which emphysema is one of them. Chronic bronchitis is another one of them. Emphysema is a chronic pumonary disease, usually caused from smoking.. Chronic means it has taken years to develop to the point where you notice it is harder to breathe. Over years of smoking the alveoli (tiny airsacs in the lung) become damaged and what we call overdistended and they can not function properly. If empysema progresses it can lead to needing supplemental oxygen use at all times. Emphysema/COPD can not be cured but you can slow the progression by quitting smoking and taking the medications prescribed by your physician .
Actually, emphysema is a disease of COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease). COPD is characterized by a chronic case of bronchitis which can eventually lead to emphysema. This is the way my doctor described it to me. Bronchitis is an inflammation of the bronchial tubes and air passages in the lungs and emphysema is characterized by loss of the elasticity of the lung tissue so it’s gets more difficult to expand the lungs to breathe.