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Emphysema is a disease of the lungs that makes breathing very difficult. It is caused by excessive inflation of the alveoli.
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What are the symptoms of emphazima?
wheezing, shortness of breath, and labored breathing.
How can chronic hypoxia affect your body if you still smoke all the time?
My mom smokes and she has chronic Hypoxia . She will hardly ever wear her oxygen and she still smokes a whole intire carton of cigarettes less than two weeks . How can that affect your body and the hypoxia ? She also has copd and Emphazima and she has told me she was not going to quite smoking . I know that if you have emphazima you are killing yourself slowly cause you are closing your wind pipe ciculation . She has told me she did not care something was going to take her out of this world if it was than if would be her cigarettes.
Explain how tobbaco smoke hinders the lungs ability to eliminate foreign stubstances?
what tobacco smoke does is deteriorate the walls in your aveolli (small clustered sacks in your lungs that exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide). when those walls are damaged if become harder and harder for the lungs to exchange gases, almost like your being suffocated. this weakens your lungs and they cant fight off infections. when they get weakened to the point where the patient has too minumal of gas exchange its called emphazima. the reason you see people with emphazima walking around with oxygen tanks is because they need high concentrates of o2 in order to stabilize the gas exchange in their deteriorated aveollis. Most people with Emphizema die of pnuemonia, in short they basically suffocate to death.
What can cause smoke?
Smoking at an early age can cause lung cancer, Heart disease/cancer, bad nails, bad breath, bad teeth, kidney problems, and lung problems. Also it can cause Emphazima. You could die at an early age.
Can smoking have bad affects with enbrel?
I'm going assume that by "smoking" you are meaning tobacco and will answer your question as such although its much the same as what it would be for cannabis:I am currently taking 50 mg Enbrel injections and I have been a pack a day smoker for over 5 years. I, so far, have not experienced much difficulty or interaction between the two personally.However, because Enbrel is such a strong immunosuppressent, inhaling any type of smoke regularily (but especially tobacco) will cause damage to your lungs and lower your natural bodies immunity even further.The main risk of smoking on Enbrel is an increased rate of respitory infections leading to chronic bronchitis, pneumonia, and emphazima. Personally I have experienced minor breathing problems, and a persistant cough due to my smoking but as far as I can tell it has caused no other further problems.However, if you do smoke while on Enbrel and do get one of the more serious infections as previously mentioned being a smoker will inhibit your body from fighting off the infection (that smoking caused) and will lower your chances of successfully recovering from said infection.PLEASE NOTE THAT SUCH SERIOUS INFECTIONS CAN AND HAVE BEEN REPORTED TO BE FATAL IN PATIENT WHO ARE TAKING ENBREL. SMOKING WILL ONLY INCREASE YOUR RISK OF AN INFECTION RESULTING IN DEATH!All in all your best bet is to cut back as much as possible while on enbrel and at the first sign of a potential resperatory infection, call your doctor right away!
