Emphysema Treatment

Red Smoothie Detox Factor Review Like balloons, our lungs hold air and are very elastic, expanding and contracting easily. But what would happen if you let the air out of a balloon yet it didn't deflate? As weird as it sounds, that's basically what happens when you have emphysema. Emphysema is caused by damage to some of the 300 million alveoli - the tiny, thin-walled air sacs clustered at the ends of the airways within the lungs - so that they become hardened and unable to "squeeze out" air from the body. Nearly two million Americans suffer emphysema symptoms; making it the 15th most common chronic condition in the U.S. Emphysema rates are highest for men age 65 and older.Emphysema Causes; Emphysema Symptoms Long-term smoking causes the alveoli become enlarged and the small blood vessels that supply these air sacs die off.

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This in turn results in the most common emphysema symptoms: inflammation, hardening of the lung tissue, and difficulty in breathing. Like a balloon that has been blown up and deflated many times, air sacs in emphysema sufferers loose their elasticity (ability to stretch and shrink with breathing). This results in 'stale' air becoming trapped in the air sacs. As air gets trapped in these tiny sacs, some rupture to form one large air space instead of many small ones. The trapped air cannot be fully released when a patient exhales, and breathing then becomes more and more labored.