2006-08-18 02:43:00 · 4 answers · asked by rahalluk 2 in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Other - General Health Care
emphysema is a disease almost exclusively casued by smoking (it CAN be caused by exposer to carbon, like coal miners, or in congestive heart failure, but 99% of all cases are smoking related)
Through a variety of mechanisms, smoking destroys the elastic recoil tissue of the lungs, disabling their ability to deflate and push air out. As subsequent breaths are drawn in, the alveoli expand and expand, unable to deflate well enough, until they burst. In consequence, this means the total surface area in your lungs for absorbing oxygen is exponentially cut.
It is a progressive, and incurable disease. There is nothing you can do to regenerate the old lung tissue, nothing can be done to recover to how you were pre-disease. The more you smoke once you have it, the worse and worse it gets. So stop smoking immediately, otherwise it's a miserable way to die.
2006-08-18 02:52:04 · answer #1 · answered by banzai 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-03-22 16:54:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's spelled emphysema, and it's a lung disorder (the full name for it is pulmonary emphysema). You can try Googling it or just go to the American Lung Association website.
2006-08-18 02:48:40 · answer #3 · answered by sarge927 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is actually spelt emphysema and is a lung disease. Usually caused by smoking-it means that the sufferer will have trouble breathing.
http://www.lung.ca/diseases-maladies/a-z/emphysema-emphyseme/index_e.php
Have a look at this for more info
2006-08-18 02:50:49 · answer #4 · answered by lil nom 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Emphysema actually is a lung disorder that causes accumulation of fluid or oedema in the lungs. U can get to know bout it in any medical text or in anysearch site.
2006-08-18 02:51:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Its a chronic lung disease typically associated with workers who have been engaged in dusty occupations and coal miners are a noteable group affected
2006-08-18 02:52:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
What Is Enfisema
2016-10-31 08:24:47 · answer #7 · answered by Erika 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-08-18 02:54:10 · answer #8 · answered by z3b3rd33 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
emphysema???
check out lung cancer research and smoking websites.
2006-08-18 02:48:18 · answer #9 · answered by joey322 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
check out nhs direct they can tell you a bit more about it
2006-08-18 08:49:33 · answer #10 · answered by buddhist_babe77 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋