Changing living conditions lead to the appearance of ever new diseases. And new unfamiliar symptoms arise. For example, it is a chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, which manifests itself in the fact that the patient suffers from coughing, difficulty breathing, and body temperature is elevated.
Risk group
Full breathing is a rather complex process in the physiology of the body; it requires muscle tension. As a person matures, the lungs become depressed. In cases where he is not engaged in physical activity, smokes, is often sick, the likelihood that he will soon have difficulty breathing, not enough air, a cough will manifest itself - it increases many times. At risk are people older than 50 years. In addition, employees of hazardous production, cooks who cook on fire, are at risk. It should be careful for those who suffer from chronic diseases of the respiratory system of the body, bronchitis.
Modern facts
According to statistics, COPD is one of the most common causes of human death. The disease is on the next level after stroke, heart attack and cancer. In fact, the number of people suffering from COPD is ten times higher than the official numbers. According to studies of the Russian Respiratory Society, it is difficult to breathe with a strong cough on a chronic basis of about 11 million patients in the country.
Symptoms
In fact, the disease is as follows. The patient tries to inhale, lets in air, then exhales it, but some part of the air is stored in his lungs. This is due to the fact that the muscles of the respiratory tract are weakened and the lung tissue is damaged by the disease. At first it’s hard to breathe without coughing, and then he appears. People, as a rule, attribute this to signs of a cold or the consequences of smoking.
The second alarming symptom is shortness of breath. Initially, she accompanies a person during exercise. But then it becomes constantly difficult to breathe, a dry cough accompanies a person at rest. And then he is no longer able to walk as fast as before.
Experts believe that any cough with shortness of breath is an alarming symptom and a cause for suspicion of the onset of COPD. Diagnosis is carried out during studies of external respiration. Shortness of breath is accompanied by many alarming symptoms.
If a person begins to breathe heavily with a cough, there are always reasons for that. This does not occur from scratch. In the vast majority of cases (90%), the symptoms of COPD disappear when you stop smoking. Treatment is aimed at reducing the frequency of seizures. And each exacerbation is fraught with serious danger - it damages the lungs, it may well lead to failure of this organ and death.
Treatment
More recently, if it was difficult for a person to breathe after coughing, treatment was difficult - for drugs to reach the lungs, it was necessary to inhale deeply, and not all patients could do this. But modern medicine has proposed new tools that do not require effort - you just need to breathe as usual.
It is difficult for a person suffering from COPD to engage in physical activity. Any mobility provokes an acute shortage of air. However, he needs classes. It is necessary to adhere to the gentle regime. The more movements are limited, the worse the patient will be.
Gymnastics
If it is difficult to breathe with a cough, doctors recommend that the patient inflate two or three balloons per day. In this case, very soon a person will feel new strengths in himself and the opportunity to double the number of balls.
When breathing hard with a cough, vocals can help. It will take several lessons with the teacher to demonstrate the breathing technique used by the vocalists. It will be amazing how a person can sing after they are mastered, even if he does not have a special voice. In addition, the patient's condition will improve.
For those who began to breathe heavily with a cough, a crawl can be swimming a crawl with breaths above the water and exhale under it. Cardio workouts help. It is best to go in for exercise bikes.
Norm and pathology
It is completely normal that it becomes difficult to breathe with a cough to a person leading a sedentary lifestyle. The presence of excess weight, heredity, and the use of alcohol and tobacco products negatively affect the respiratory system. Psychosomatic disorders can also cause negative phenomena.
Normally, a person takes 15-16 breaths in 1 minute. And if this is not enough to deliver oxygen to tissues and internal organs. In this case, the patient is breathing heavily.
Additional reasons
In this case, the question may arise, why is the child breathing heavily with a cough? After all, he runs a lot, does not use harmful products. And the reasons may lie in stress, special nervous conditions. Anemia and asthma, spasms of blood vessels in the brain lead to such phenomena. In addition, diseases of the cardiovascular system are accompanied by such symptoms. But most often the reason lies in the pathology of the lungs.
And if in a calm state it becomes difficult for a person to breathe with a cough, this is an occasion for an urgent visit to a doctor. It is necessary to determine as soon as possible which disease caused such an alarming symptom.
Diagnostics
Several studies are needed. In this case, an electrocardiogram of the heart, an x-ray of the chest area, pulmonology of the lungs are done. And if the difficulty in breathing is caused by thoughts, fears that are in no way connected with any particular disease, you need to contact a psychiatrist.
If the patient has enough oxygen in the air, he ideally without special obstacles enters the lungs, passing through the organs of the respiratory system. But if breathing difficulties occur, the lungs no longer perform the task of saturating the blood with oxygen properly. This often happens in patients suffering from pneumonia, tuberculosis, emphysema. These may be the consequences of surgery - after removal of the tumor, for example.
If a large area in the lungs is affected, heavy breathing becomes too frequent, a person makes more breathing to capture oxygen. If the source of such a symptom is hidden in the cardiac system, the blood supply is disturbed, and soon this is accompanied by a heart attack, heart failure. As a result, the heart becomes weaker, it does not cope with the task of pushing the right amount of blood, saturated with oxygen, to the internal organs, all tissues.
If there are not enough blood cells - red blood cells that bind and carry oxygen throughout the body, it can also be difficult to breathe with a cough. Due to interruptions in blood supply and cardiac activity, the rhythm of contractions of the most important muscle in the body goes astray. The rhythm accelerates quite strongly.
Why does a cough appear?
Another important issue. If it becomes difficult to breathe, coughing occurs as a result. Frequent inhalations and exhalations contribute to irritation of the mucous membranes, receptors of the larynx. Then the muscles of the respiratory system contract. And a person begins to force exhalations through his mouth. In this case, a cough is needed in order to clear the airways of obstructions. It helps to clear the pathways through which air circulates in the body.
Other cases
It is important to consider that sometimes the causes of heavy breathing lie in external conditions. For example, if a person is in a state where he needs as much oxygen as possible, such a symptom is absolutely normal. We are talking about fever, progressive tumors in the body, disorders in the thyroid gland, diabetes, neuralgia and so on. Any disease that leads to an acceleration of metabolism and an increase in body temperature leads to increased breathing. After all, the body needs a large amount of oxygen to deliver it to internal organs and tissues. Increased stress on the respiratory system is the main reason why it becomes difficult to breathe.
Prevention
Thanks to physical activity, proper nutrition and maintaining a healthy lifestyle, a person is able to strengthen his body and reduce the likelihood that he will suffer from a number of unpleasant diseases. It is worth abandoning bad habits. An important role in the appearance of respiratory diseases is played by smoking. And as soon as a person refuses this addiction, his health condition improves quite quickly. Alcohol production also lowers the body's immune strength. Because of this, he is becoming increasingly vulnerable to disease.
Panting with coughing is often associated with bronchitis. And to prevent this disease is much nicer than to treat it. First of all, it is worth taking into account the fact that bronchitis is a consequence of infection. And the weakened organism is most susceptible to infectious diseases. And if a person is sick with acute respiratory infections or the flu, he should take care of timely treatment so that the infection does not go further and is not transferred to the bronchi.
As a rule, vitamins, in particular, vitamin C help strengthen the body. It is worth taking care of a plentiful and warm drink. It is important to treat infectious diseases in a timely manner. Then the person is less likely to suffer from the fact that it is difficult to breathe with a cough.
Sometimes the cause of bronchitis lurks in the surrounding circumstances. Excessively cold, humid atmosphere, polluted air, tobacco smoke increase a person's susceptibility to bronchitis, to many diseases. Sometimes a person comes in contact with allergens at work. And this is an occasion to urgently change the conditions, otherwise one day he will have COPD.
Thus, prevention will consist in quitting smoking, including its passive variety. You should not be in a crowd of people in the flu season or ARI.
It is important not to panic when you notice the symptoms, but immediately go to the doctor. In cases where a person often suffers from viral infections, it is better for him to take care of the vaccine against pneumonia and other diseases.
It is necessary to constantly disinfect hands, wash them every day. Then the risk of getting sick with an infection is reduced significantly.
In the diet you need to add as many vegetables and fresh fruits as possible. Very useful will be teas with vitamins. Decoctions with rosehip, lemon, mint leaves, raspberries help.
It is impossible to be healthy without eating enough protein. It is necessary for a person to be healthy, especially in the cold season. Protein plays a crucial role in the fight against infectious lesions. In cold weather, it is best to protect the throat, wrapping it with a scarf, high collars. A cold throat increases the likelihood that bronchitis will develop.
By following all these recommendations, a person increases the chances of never asking the question: "It's hard to breathe, not enough air, coughing - what should I do?"