A friend of mine gave up smoking a year ago and since then she has been suffering from cold like symptoms, a runny nose and cough at night. She doesn't suffer with shortness of breath and doesn't cough up catarrh or anything, does this sound like symptoms of emphysema or could it be astmah?
2006-12-04 09:22:49 · 4 answers · asked by shell 3 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Respiratory Diseases
She should go to a Dr but I can tell you it is not emphysema. That illness feels like you have 1000 pounds on your chest and cannot breath. I smoked since I was 15 and I am turning 50 soon...after I quit smoking for the first year or so I coughed...your body is going thru withdrawals and new things are happening. Have her go to a respiratory Therapist Dr.
2006-12-04 09:49:55 · answer #1 · answered by DEEDEE 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It takes quite a while to get all the nasty side effects of tobacco out of your tissues and system.
Emphysema is the enlargement of the air pockets in your lungs. Until slowly you get no oxygen into your blood stream.
My Father smoked 68 years and died a horrible death of Emphysema. He was on oxygen for the last 6 or 8 years. He died in a nursing home not knowing where he was, or who he was unable to feed himself and in diapers. I hope this sounds like as bad a death as it was.
He and my mother were married 61 years and thanks to all that smoking next to her she died of congestive heart failure. Her heart so enlarged it just wouldn't work any more. Both on oxygen.
Gradually your brain and all the small capillaries stop getting oxygen and just won't work any more.
Let's say it takes one month for every year of smoking to get rid of the garbage in a persons system. It is still far better than the alternative.
2006-12-04 11:02:14 · answer #2 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It sounds like allergy's
2006-12-04 13:53:49 · answer #3 · answered by roeroe47me 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no it sounds like bronchitis...
2006-12-06 07:51:35 · answer #4 · answered by uh... 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋