Common Respiratory Diseases

• Asthma


  Chronic inflammatory disease of the airways which lead to narrowing of the air tract.
• COPD (Chronic Obstruct Pulmonary Disease)


  • General term that includes several respiratory disorders that cause breathlessness or the inability to  exhale normally.
  • Can develop over the course of several years without any signs.
  • This disorder is caused by smoking and environmental factors like pollution and genetic disposition.
  • BRONCHITIS AND EMPHYSEMA.
• COPD: Bronchitis

  • Inflammation of the mucous membranes of the lungs in the bronchial passage. This causes swelling that blocks the airways in the lungs.
  • Chronic Bronchitis - Chronic cough.
  • Acute Bronchitis - Viral infection.
• COPD: Emphysema


  Breaking down of the walls of the alveoli.
• Lung Cancer


  Develop from the mutations of DNA in the lungs that caused production of irregular cells that multiply and leads to uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells or tumor.
• Pneumonia


  A common lung infection caused by bacteria, a virus or fungi by which alveoli is filled with fluid.
• Tuberculosis


  Bacterial infection that harms the lungs. Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria.
• MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome)


  A viral respiratory illness first reported in Saudi Arabia in 2012. MERS-CoV.