The lung disease, Chronic Bronchitis, is a fairly common disease found in smokers and patients who inhale a large amount of smoke. Booth Bronchitis and Chronic Bronchitis can go away with time("Bronchitis Treatments & Remedies for Acute and Chronic Bronchitis."). Other measurers in which you can speed the process of healing is plenty of rest, staying hydrated, and avoiding smoke. To treat and Chronic Bronchitis a cough suppressant and antibiotics are necessary. The treatment for Chronic Bronchitis is functional in the sense that antibiotics usually have a high success rate and the cough suppressant will take away the painful cough and limit the amount of phlegm exiting the body through coughing. Chronic Bronchitis has societal, economical, and political implications.
The solution for Chronic Bronchitis are doctor prescribed medicines which are effective in several different ways. The strengths of this treatment is that eliminates almost all pans and annoyances of this disease, specifically the cough and phlegm ("Bronchitis Treatments & Remedies for Acute and Chronic Bronchitis."). The doctor prescribed cough suppressant is specifically used to eliminate the cough and the phlegm. The scientific solution which is used to solve Chronic Bronchitis is efficient in the sense that it eliminates the worst of the symptoms. Another way in which the treatment for Chronic Bronchitis is efficient is through the antibiotics. The antibiotics, prescribed by your doctor, have a fair chance of being able to eliminate the pathogens which are the cause for Chronic Bronchitis.
The treatment for Chronic Bronchitis, as well as being sufficient, has its downsides. The main downside to the treatment for Chronic Bronchitis are the antibiotics. A...
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...hange your vote to a candidate who supports free health care, which the opponent might not. As well as being effective the treatment also has a downside and has a chance of failing. A course of action to take in the future to help improve the treatment would be to do a lot of research on the disease and try to identify its weakness and strengths. This could lead to the cure being more effective and having a higher success rate.
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The presented case is of a patient named R.S. who has a smoking history of many years, which can be directly tied to his development of chronic bronchitis, a chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) specified as Type B. It is estimated that in 90% of chronic bronchitis or “blue bloaters”, cigarette smoking is the major cause. Chronic bronchitis involves persistent and irreversible airway obstruction, due to the constant inflammation of the bronchial mucosa, leading to hypertrophy and hyperplasia of bronchial glands. The latter exposes the individual to higher risks of bacterial infections; often colonization of organisms such as Streptococcus or Staphyloccocus pneumoniae can be exhibited. This is due to the lost or impaired function of mucociliary clearance action which results from the replacement of certain sections of ciliated columnar epithelium by squamous cells in the bronchi. (Copstead &Banasik, 546-547)
Chronic bronchitis differs from emphysema in that it affects the bronchioles. There are two forms of bronchitis: chronic and acute. We are going to focus on chronic bronchitis. In this disease, the bronchioles become thick and inflamed. The affected person might cough up thick mucus which can also block the bronchioles.
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or COPD is a group of progressive lung diseases that block airflow and make it hard to breathe. Emphysema and chronic bronchitis are the most common types of COPD (Ignatavicius & Workman, 2016, p 557). Primary symptoms include coughing, mucus, chest pain, shortness of breath, and wheezing (Ignatavicius & Workman, 2016, p.557). COPD develops slowly and worsens over time if not treated during early stages. The disease has no cure, but medication and disease management can slow its progress and make one feel better (NIH, 2013)
...a are bronchodilators like anticholinergic, beta agonists, theophylline and oxygen, which are for the advance cases of the disease. In addition, the best treatment for people whom have emphysema is for them to stop smoking.
Health care is one of those issues where the political spectrum shows some overlap. Both sides want the same outcome: a healthy and happy society. However, the ways they want to accomplish this varies greatly. The Republicans are staunchly against government-organized healthcare. They believe that the less government the better, believing that “government run affordable health care leads to inefficiencies and can be disastrous to the nation’s health overall.” They believe that health care should be left to doctors, HMOs and insurance companies to decide and manage. However, the democrats’ main point on health care is that it should be funded and controlled by the government for the people. They hold that all people should be able to have the assurance of health without worrying about losing coverage or going into debt. This would be most effective for the poor and elderly, those who normally would not be able to afford coverage and need it most. As such, Med...
In recent years, the number of Americans who are uninsured has reached over 45 million citizens, with millions more who only have the very basic of insurance, effectively under insured. With the growing budget cuts to medicaid and the decreasing amount of employers cutting back on their health insurance options, more and more americans are put into positions with poor health care or no access to it at all. At the heart of the issue stems two roots, one concerning the morality of universal health care and the other concerning the economic effects. Many believe that health care reform at a national level is impossible or impractical, and so for too long now our citizens have stood by as our flawed health-care system has transformed into an unfixable mess. The good that universal healthcare would bring to our nation far outweighs the bad, however, so, sooner rather than later, it is important for us to strive towards a society where all people have access to healthcare.
Health care is an uprising issue today in the United States. I believe in order for health care or the medical field to succeed in the future that social contract should be enforced. By enforcing social contract, it will allow health care to be more efficient by allowing individuals to assume responsibility for their own healthy by having the ability to ensure health. According to The Enduring Democracy book, " from the philosophy of Jean- Jacques Rousseau, an agreement people make with one another to form a government and abide by its rules and laws, an in return the government promises to protect the people’s rights and welfare and promote their best interest"(Dautrich, 7). In other words, if people came to an agreement about health care being available for all American citizens, the government will uphold this idea and will make sure all American citizens have the right to health care.
Introduction: This paper will discuss a case study of Liam, a three-month-old boy who is transferred from the General Practitioner (GP) to a paediatric ward with bronchiolitis. Initially, Liam’s chief health issues will be identified, followed by a nursing assessment and diagnosis of the child’s needs. Focus will be made on the management of two major health problems: respiratory distress and dehydration, and summary and evaluation of the interventions with evidence of learning. Lastly, a conclusion of the author’s self-evaluation will be presented. Identification of specific key issues: Liam is a previously healthy boy who has experienced rhinorrhoea, intermittent cough, and poor feeding for the past four days.
Cystic fibrosis is a genetic disease; it is passed down through families. Cystic Fibrosis causes sticky mucus to build up in lungs, digestive track, and other areas of the body. The mucus clogs can lead to life threatening mucus infections. {Board, A.D.A.M. Editorial. Cystic fibrosis. U.S. National Library of Medicine, 16 May 2012. Web. 11 Jan. 2014.} Some of the most common symptoms of Cystic Fibrosis are salty skin, wheezing or shortness of breath, and persistent cough, sometimes with thick mucus called phlegm. {Phlegm. Dictionary .com. Dictionary.com, n.d. Web. 13 Jan. 2014.} Other symptoms are poor growth or weight gain even with a good diet. {Children's Health." Symptoms of Cystic fibrosis. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Jan. 2014.} Current treatments of Cystic fibrosis include chest physical therapy; where they pound chest and back allover with device to loosen mucus from lungs, or wear and inflatable therapy vest that uses airwaves to force mucus upper airways. Exercise, and Antibiosis, both oral and IV tube are also used as treatment. {"How Is Cystic fibrosis Treated?" - NHLBI, NIH. N....
Someone diagnosed with COPD must understand that the damage done to the lungs by this disease is not reversible. The prognosis is one of stopping further damage to the lungs. To minimize this damage the person is treated for symptoms of the disease and not healing of it. The symptoms of COPD usually show up after the lungs have been significantly damaged and due to this late formation of symptoms and their inability to ...
In the last decade, the number of prescriptions for antibiotics has increases. Even though, antibiotics are helpful, an excess amount of antibiotics can be dangerous. Quite often antibiotics are wrongly prescribed to cure viruses when they are meant to target bacteria. Antibiotics are a type of medicine that is prone to kill microorganisms, or bacteria. By examining the PBS documentary Hunting the Nightmare Bacteria and the article “U.S. government taps GlaxoSmithKline for New Antibiotics” by Ben Hirschler as well as a few other articles can help depict the problem that is of doctors prescribing antibiotics wrongly or excessively, which can led to becoming harmful to the body.
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is preventable disease that has a detrimental effects on both the airway and lung parenchyma (Nazir & Erbland, 2009). COPD categorises emphysema and chronic bronchitis, both of which are characterised by a reduced maximum expiratory flow and slow but forced emptying of the lungs (Jeffery 1998). The disease has the one of the highest number of fatalities in the developed world due to the ever increasing amount of tobacco smokers and is associated with significant morbidity and mortality (Marx, Hockberger & Walls, 2014). Signs and symptoms that indicate the presence of the disease include a productive cough, wheezing, dyspnoea and predisposing risk factors (Edelman et al., 1992). The diagnosis of COPD is predominantly based on the results of a lung function assessment (Larsson, 2007). Chronic bronchitis is differentiated from emphysema by it's presentation of a productive cough present for a minimum of three months in two consecutive years that cannot be attributed to other pulmonary or cardiac causes (Marx, Hockberger & Walls, 2014) (Viegi et al., 2007). Whereas emphysema is defined pathologically as as the irreversible destruction without obvious fibrosis of the lung alveoli (Marx, Hockberger & Walls, 2014) (Veigi et al., 2007).It is common for emphysema and chronic bronchitis to be diagnosed concurrently owing to the similarities between the diseases (Marx, Hockberger & Walls, 2014).
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The clinical manifestation one may see in patients with chronic bronchitis are chronic cough, weight loss, excessive sputum, and dyspnea. Chronic cough is from the body trying to expel the excessive mucus build up to return breathing back to normal. Dyspnea is from the thickening of the bronchial walls causing constriction, thereby altering the breathing pattern. This causes the body to use other surrounding muscles to help with breathing which can be exhausting. These patients ca...
...ions are ageing and increasingly, people are living with one or more chronic conditions for decades (World Health Organization, 2011). If the government can assist in regulating preventive health measure for citizens it will years down the line prove to be a cost effective measure. World Health Organization (2011) states that many chronic conditions were avoidable had the person ben able to receive the preventive education and care needed. Business owners may experience a slight inflation in cost to insure their employees but it does not amount to nearly half as much that will be saved by all citizens having access to preventive medical care.