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Emphysema and COPD

What is Emphysema?

Emphysema is an ailment, which occurs most times as a result of indulging in smoking over a period of time that leads to the broadening of the air sacs in the lungs. Emphysema is part of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which is the combining term for emphysema, chronic bronchitis, and occasionally asthma.

Causes of Emphysema:

Emphysema can be caused by smoking cigarettes or from second hand smoke and being around smokers for a long period of time, inhaled toxins from the environment and in developing countries. It can sometimes be caused by indoor cooking and running generators to power homes. Some other minor causes of Emphysema are from air pollution, mineral dust and chemical inhalation.

Symptoms of Emphysema

Some of the common symptoms of emphysema are difficulty breathing and coughing; shortness of breath also termed as dyspnea. Some other symptoms are wheezing, reduced appetite, weight loss, difficult sleeping, anxiety and depression and hypoxemia.

Natural treatments for Emphysema and COPD

Some natural treatments to relieve emphysema are:

1. To increase the beta-carotenes in your diet by eating things like carrots, sweet potatoes and foods that have bright colours contain beta-carotenes.
2. Reduce the intake of dairy products and fatty fried foods, which can cause mucus in the lungs and make breathing more difficult.
3. Decrease air pollution by getting a good air filtration system in the home and just taking a walk in the forest can be also helpful to remedy the effect of emphysema.
4. Weight loss is also a good way to reduce the effect of emphysema because excess weight causes more stress on the body system and excess weight makes the body system work harder to get oxygen into the body.
5. Emotional trauma such as grief can also affect the way your overall system handles the healing process of emphysema. If you are holding on to grief due to emotional trauma in your life this can sit in the lungs and cause the physical symptoms that is known as the emphysema disease.
6. More natural treatments for Emphysema include detoxification, VitaTree VitaDetox formula has been known to help detoxify the lungs and give great relief for people suffering with emphysema.
7. Probiotics are the good gut flora that we all need for our immune system to help us fight emphysema and treat it naturally.
8. Fish oil from VitaTree, VitaFish oil also helps to treat inflammation that has been accumulated in the lungs due to the emphysema disease.

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