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Lung damage from smoking or extensive exposure to inhaled environmental pollutants causes diseases like bronchitis, emphysema, or COPD in the elderly. However, asthma is also a common cause of respiratory symptoms in this age group. Like asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), also responds to anti-inflammatorv drugs. Thus sometimes it becomes difficult to differentiate between asthma and other forms of obstructive lung diseases. However, after a trial of oral glucocorticosteroids if: •  ... 

Advantages of eating foods rich in water content: Nearly 80% of human body is composed of water. The fluids perform the most essential functions of supplying nutrients and carrying waste products from every cell of the body. A cell cannot function if it is loaded with waste products. Water is best solvent known to man and it can dissolve maximum number of solids in it. It is the best medium for dissolving and excreting waste from the body. If we analyse our diet, we will realise that we eat a diet,... 

•    The patient should take the bronchodilator medicine at the earliest signs of asthma episode – such as cough, chest tightness, wheezing, or shortness of breath. An asthma episode is easier to control if medicine is taken as soon as the symptoms start. •    Cromolyn should be taken before the patient comes in contact with a known trigger (for example, before visiting the house of a friend or relative who has a dog). •    If side effects occur, the medicines should not be stopped... 

Diabetes is a metabolic disease that evolves over time, and which is manifested by increasing glucose and the appearance of sugar in the urine. For this reason the patient feels the need to drink plenty of fluids, has an excessive appetite and urinate large quantities of liquid. Diabetes is the most common endocrine disease and is characterized by complications, which develops over time and affects the eyes, kidneys, nerves and blood vessels. These symptoms may occur suddenly in patients younger... 

Every year on May 19, we mark World Hepatitis Day, a day when it is necessary to remember the struggle that goes with this disease worldwide. Hepatitis B is the most common and serious form of liver infection worldwide. Hepatitis B virus can be transmitted directly through contact with infected blood through unprotected sex or intravenous injection of drugs with unsterilized needles. Hepatitis B is 100 times more infectious than human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a serious...