Long-term smoking regularly check lung function

Liu Yanyan Zhou qiang Zhong shan county county health education in guangxi

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        Life, if long-term smokers often cough, expectoration, symptoms such as chest tightness, difficulty breathing, and will be regularly checked to the hospital. Because smoking can lead to more than 40 kinds of fatal disease, the doctor reminds, often smokers lung function should be checked regularly.

        Regardless of smoking or second-hand smoke for a long time, can make the respiratory tract cilia in the swing speed from 12 ~ 15 times per second to below 10 times; Once the bacteria cannot be timely delivery, is likely to make waves in the lungs, causing respiratory diseases such as inflammation, emphysema. At the same time, the smoke contains will destroy alveolar inflammatory substances, cause lung damage.

        About 300 million normal alveolar, smoke 20 cigarettes a day more than 1 year, can be reduced about 10 million alveoli; Smoking 20 year by around 150 million. Many suffer from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (copd) "old smokers", let alone climb mountains, running, is sitting at home is likely to be out of breath. Some patients even told me, they every day is a "living hell".

        From the smoke and harmful substances such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, benzene, nitrosamines will directly or indirectly cause cancer. American study found that if before the age of 15 start smoking, the incidence of lung cancer than nonsmokers is 15 times more; About 20 years old started to smoke, more than 10 times higher than the average person; Her husband smoke, his wife about 6 times more likely to develop lung cancer than the average man.

        Therefore, smoking history of long and large amount of people, regardless of age, as long as appear repeatedly cough, expectoration and unexplained symptoms of wheezing, recommend to normal hospital for lung function, to prevention and treatment at early date.

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