Lung disease

What is Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA)? Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) is a serious sleep disorder in which a person’s breathing repeatedly stops and starts during sleep due to a temporary blockage or narrowing of the upper airway. This leads to fragmented and poor-quality sleep, which can have several long-term health consequences. Symptoms of Obstructive Sleep […]

Asthma treatment and its challenges: Asthma is a condition where the airway is inflammed due to various allergic stimulation. This leads to airway narrowing and hence symptoms of cough, breathlessness, chest tightness , congestion. Repeated episodes may lead to long term permanent muscle hypertrophic of airway, airway wall edema, and progressive lung function decline. Treatment

Let’s discuss cough, stridor and hemoptysis. Patients of end stage lung diseases like COPD, interstitial lung disease and lung cancer can suffer from chronic cough due to various reasons. Most common being the stretch of the lung receptors due to the disease itself, others can be chronic infections, fluid overload, psychological reasons, many times the

Today let me talk about respiratory palliative care. Let’s talk about palliative care in chronic chest diseases that can progress to end-stage respiratory failure and the importance of timely support. What matters in the end?  Most important is to understand what they are going through and relieve the symptoms in the best possible way. Most

What is Spirometry? It is an important diagnostic tool used very commonly in respiratory conditions. It assesses a function of the lung and helps in diagnosis and also provides inside on disease progression or response to treatment. The procedure :Spirometry is a type of pulmonary function test . The patient is asked to take deep

What is tuberculosis? Listen from your TB Doctor.It is a disease caused by bacteria named mycobacterium tuberculosis. It primarily affects the lung, but it can affect any other organ of the body. Common symptoms are fever, weight, loss, cough, and chest painSymptoms, according to the specific organ involved may also be present. It commonly affects

Cough, lasting for more than three weeks would be classified as chronic cough. There can be various reasons for a long lasting cough:The most common being post, viral infections, others being gastro-oesophageal, reflux disease, and allergic cough. Other causes of chronic cough are obstructive, lung disease, diseases like COPD, asthma, interstitial lung disease, lung infections,