M.D - Respiratory Medicine, DTCD, MBBS Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery
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If you get fired by your boss, you may get asthma.
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Getting fired by your boss can be a reason for your stress because you lose your job. Losing a job would mean hunting for another job to earn money and sustain life. All these responsibilities are enough to stress your life away and stress has been known as one of the triggers for causing asthma. The other triggers that can cause asthma are smoke, cold air, certain medications like beta blockers, preservatives in canned foods, gastroesophageal reflux disease and so on.
Which of the following medication can be taken by patients with both COPD and asthma?
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Long-acting bronchodilators are medications that help reduce inflammation of the lung tissues thereby, relieving symptoms. Other than medication, lifestyle remedies like quitting smoking, exercising, practicing yoga and breathing exercises help control the symptoms.
Asthma is characterized by panic and wheezing which does not occur in the case of COPD.
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Asthma is symptomized by coughing, wheezing, panic, rattling in the chest, shortness of breath, tightness in the throat and neck and difficulty in talking and even walking. Before the asthma attack, patients may also experience signs like anxiety, mood changes and difficulty in sleeping. Asthmatic symptoms are mainly due to spasms of the bronchi caused due to inflammation of the airways.
Which among the following is a similarity between COPD and asthma?
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Both COPD and asthma show symptoms of coughing. This is because in both the cases the lung tissue suffers inflammation. COPD is caused mainly due to tobacco smoking, air pollution and infectious diseases. Aggravation of asthma occurs only in the presence of a trigger like an allergen or cold air but COPD may be caused even without the presence of the trigger.
COPD is a type of lung disease that is caused due to exposure to heat.
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COPD is known as the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease which represents respiratory diseases like chronic bronchitis and emphysema. The condition is featured by inflammation of the tissues of the air passage. COPD is a progressive disease and is mainly caused due to smoking. COPD may cause fatigue and other respiratory infections that occur quite frequently
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