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Suggest Treatment For End Stage COPD

I have late stage copd, past smoker, quit 16 yrs. ago. My parents and childhood Dr are now dead. My first pulmo dr told I had come into something more than cigs because of my scarring and other signs, I was then 44. I had numerous strept throat infs in grade school, until tonsillectomy when I was 14. Not too many yrs later, I began the usual, just peer pressure. I am the oldest child of 4, all or breathed 2nd hand, no one comes close to me. I am dying younger than my bio parents. Some thing has always seemed strange to me about Clorox! I asked my mothers older sisters, said no, yrs ago, forgot it! Asked my younger aunt just recently, she said yes . You got into it when your sis was a baby, you were a toddler not even quite 2 Sorry, got carried away, could this the original culprit?
Fri, 14 Nov 2014
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Thanks for your question on HCM.
Clorox may or may not be the culprit but smoking is definitely the cause for your COPD.
Now the important thing is to start treatment rather than searching for cause. As COPD is irreversible and progressive disease. You need to start treatment to halt the progression.
So consult pulmonologist and get done chest x ray and PFT (Pulmonary Function Test) to know the severity of the disease as treatment based on severity only.
Treatment consist of following steps.
1. Quit smoking.
2. Start inhaled bronchodilators in the form of meter dose inhalers having long acting beta 2 agonist (LABA) and inhaled corticosteroids (ICS).
3.Enroll in Pulmonary rehabilitation programme where chest physiotherapy is available.
4. Vaccination with pulmonary vaccines like pneumococcal and influenza to prevent future lung infections.
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Suggest Treatment For End Stage COPD

Thanks for your question on HCM. Clorox may or may not be the culprit but smoking is definitely the cause for your COPD. Now the important thing is to start treatment rather than searching for cause. As COPD is irreversible and progressive disease. You need to start treatment to halt the progression. So consult pulmonologist and get done chest x ray and PFT (Pulmonary Function Test) to know the severity of the disease as treatment based on severity only. Treatment consist of following steps. 1. Quit smoking. 2. Start inhaled bronchodilators in the form of meter dose inhalers having long acting beta 2 agonist (LABA) and inhaled corticosteroids (ICS). 3.Enroll in Pulmonary rehabilitation programme where chest physiotherapy is available. 4. Vaccination with pulmonary vaccines like pneumococcal and influenza to prevent future lung infections.