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Showing posts with label lung disease. Show all posts
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Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Save Your Life with Salt!

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9 Adar 5770


My website links tell you that I've long been ahead of the curve on reporting medical advances. The 2007 print edition of "It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry if I Need to" informed readers of solutions too many medical and mental health professionals weren't aware of. Medical offices are still restocking their supplies of it!

Today's headlines prove that updated 2009 E-book It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry If I Need To: EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge is even more valuable. It holds life-saving information about
a form of salt therapy in Israel that's heading soon to the USA!

Imagine what else the book reveals about coping with medical and emotional challenges. Stuff you coudn't guess at!

Get the book today. Learn what YOU need to know!





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Monday, February 2, 2009

If You or Someone You Know has COPD...

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8 Shvat 5769




If you or someone you know has COPD,
the following information is important.


COPD is short for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. It means having lungs with narrow pathways struggling to carry the oxygen you're trying to breathe into and out of your lungs.

Those pathways often become irritated, a form of self-defense to the gases and other unpleasant stuff that comes from pollutants in the affected person's living space. Medical professionals call this condition "inflamed." The areas of inflammation usually become blocked up with fluids and mucus. That makes breathing even harder to do.

It feels like having bronchitis 24/7 because the tiny alveoli in the lungs (they resemble the florets of broccoli) lose their strength for moving oxygen in and out of the lungs. COPD tends to worsen over time. Affected people cough up unusual amounts of gooey mucus. Indeed, they might develop chronic bronchitis or even emphysema.

What causes COPD in the first place? Many types of air pollution, smoking, chemical fumes, or even excessive dust can cause the narrowed airways of COPD. One thing can almost certainly make COPD worse. Read on to prevent that from happening.

Medical professionals at Johns Hopkins Hospitals announced a while back that


"INHALED CORTICOSTEROIDS RAISE PNEUMONIA RISK
FOR LUNG DISEASE SUFFERERS


Call made for physicians to strongly weigh potential harm of commonly used drugs

Lung disease experts at Johns Hopkins are calling for physicians to show much greater caution in prescribing inhaled corticosteroid drugs for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease after finding evidence that the widely used anti-inflammatory medications increase the risk of pneumonia by a full third."

I invite you to check out some relevant information first-hand at:

http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/pulmonary/clinics/interstitial_lung_disease.htmlhttp://jama.ama-assn.org/current.dtl



To your good health,

Yojeved Golani
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