Dyspnea, or shortness of breath, is a common COPD symptom. You may experience different levels of dyspnea, but you can take steps to make breathing easier and help preserve your lung health.

When a person sits or stands up, the pulmonary congestion decreases due to gravity, and breathing improves. Dyspnea (shortness of breath regardless of position or activity) and paroxysmal nocturnal ...

Those with asthma or COPD may have an inhaled rescue bronchodilator to use when necessary. However, not everyone with shortness of breath will have low blood oxygen levels. For those with chronic ...

Effective dyspnea evaluation in urgent care requires the usage of a systems-based framework for categorizing the differential ...

According to the United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS), shortness of breath is most noticeable during exercise in the early stages of COPD. However, it may also occur in the middle of ...

The causes of dyspneacan vary from physical exercise to pulmonary, car-diac, and neuromusculardisease to psychogenic factors like anxiety. [1] In the end stages of a terminal disease, dyspnea is a ...

The problem with COPD is you have obstruction to air flow, so most patients have a chronic cough, have some shortness of breath, have some wheezing. And periodically they will have what we call an ...

We have known many times shortness of breath could be caused by fatigue of respiratory muscles. Marilyn Reasor, Pulmonary Rehab Program The good news is we can make those muscles stronger.

Purpose. The successful use of inhaled morphine to relieve dyspnea in a patient with end-stage cystic fibrosis (CF) lung disease is described. Dyspnea, the sensation of breathlessness or labored ...

Q. My grandson has been told he has a “personality disorder.” What is that? A. People with a personality disorder have serious trouble getting along with others. They are usually rigid and unable ...

Columnist Caroline Gainer discusses a study whose findings suggested that respiratory muscle strength training could help ...