Articles on lung health: persistent cough, breathlessness, asthma, COPD and how lung tests work. Coughing blood or sudden breathlessness needs urgent assessment.
Preparing for robotic lung surgery usually means several weeks of assessment and conditioning before the operation. Breathing tests such as spirometry and a gas…
Lung infection recovery time is measured in weeks, not days. With appropriate treatment, fever from pneumonia usually settles within about a week, chest pain…
Lung infection treatment is planned differently for older adults because aging changes how infections present, how the body clears them, and how medicines behave.…
A lung infection usually needs hospital care when the body can no longer keep up on its own: a blood oxygen reading that stays…
A bronchoscopy detects things a chest CT can only suggest: it shows the inside surface of the airways directly and collects samples. Washings and…
Robotic lung surgery candidates are usually people with an early-stage lung tumor that has not spread beyond nearby lymph nodes, enough breathing reserve on…
An asthma action plan is a written, personalized set of instructions that you and your clinician create together during a visit. It uses color-coded…
Adult asthma is diagnosed by combining a detailed history of variable breathing symptoms with objective lung tests. Spirometry measures how much and how fast…
Living with chronic bronchitis means managing a long-term, mucus-producing cough by protecting inflamed airways from cold air, dust and smoke, staying current with vaccines,…
Most acute bronchitis is viral and settles on its own within about three weeks, so rest, fluids and time are usually enough. See a…
Living with emphysema means slowing further lung damage and protecting the breathing you have. The steps with the strongest evidence are stopping smoking completely,…
Asbestosis and mesothelioma are different diseases with the same cause. Asbestosis is non-cancerous scarring of lung tissue that stiffens the lungs and slowly reduces…
A bronchiectasis flare-up, also called an exacerbation, is usually treated with a longer-than-usual antibiotic course, guidelines typically advising 14 days, plus more intensive airway…
Airway clearance for bronchiectasis is a set of breathing techniques, positions and sometimes handheld devices that help loosen and cough up mucus from permanently…
Diving after a pneumothorax is usually advised against, because trapped gas expands as a diver ascends and a second collapse underwater can be life-threatening;…
Pulmonary function test results are read in three steps: the FEV1/FVC ratio shows whether airways are narrowed (obstruction), the FVC percent-of-predicted shows whether the…
When pneumonia does not improve after a few days of antibiotics, doctors usually re-examine the patient, repeat blood tests and imaging, and look for…
Bronchitis treatment for the common acute form is mostly about comfort and time: rest, fluids, and relief of cough and aches while the airway…
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