Read up on wellness and lifestyle advice for patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). Stay up to date on new medications, easy-to-follow special nutrition advice, and upcoming events. We want to help you be the healthiest you possible while living with COPD.
When you have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), breathing exercises are an important way to maintain your quality of life, extend your ability to exercise, and stay calm during an acute exacerbation.
With COPD, breathing can be a challenge for the following reasons:
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No matter if you’re exploring your local neighborhood or embarking on a global adventure, individuals living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) understand the importance of taking extra precautions to ensure safe travels. Although it may initially feel overwhelming, having COPD should never hinder your ability to explore the world with confidence and tranquility. Once you establish a routine with the necessary supplies and equipment for your journey, these precautions will become second nature, allowing you to travel worry-free.
More than 12.5 million people live with COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease), and if you’re one of them, you know how it feels. You sometimes struggle to breathe, feeling short of breath or like you can’t catch your breath.
If you don’t know about COPD or you’re newly diagnosed, COPD stands for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema. Currently, experts don’t know of a cure for COPD. Although this disease causes early death or disability, taking the proper steps to manage symptoms can help you live a fulfilling life.
Here are some things you should and shouldn’t do while living with COPD.
Living with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) can be challenging, and it is important to engage in good eating habits, balancing your nutrition, and maintaining a healthy weight. If you’ve been diagnosed with COPD, your doctor has probably already told you all this information but not necessarily given you tips or advice on how to get there.
Dealing with COPD and managing your diet and weight doesn’t have to be difficult. If you’re overweight, your doctor may have recommended you lose weight so you can breathe easier. With that in mind, it’s also crucial not to lose too much weight. Being underweight is not healthy for COPD patients because it results in lower energy levels and poorer prognosis.
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a lung disease that makes breathing difficult. While a COPD diagnosis can be scary, it is manageable with proper treatment.
In this article, we will discuss the various symptoms, causes, prevention, and stages of COPD to help you better understand this disease.
If you have chronic pulmonary obstructive disease (COPD), you might have noticed that your breathing often gets difficult when you go out into cold weather. This is no coincidence. There is evidence that cold weather affects the respiratory system in numerous ways, and people with respiratory illnesses such as COPD and asthma are more likely to be affected.
In this blog post, we will discuss the normal environment of your lungs and upper airways, how cold weather affects your lungs, and how to prepare yourself to prevent weather-induced COPD exacerbations or infections.
November 1st, 2023 marks the beginning of National COPD Awareness Month, and even though Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) rates have been steadily rising, general awareness of COPD remains low. COPD Awareness Month is the national answer to increase public awareness of the costs and health risks of COPD, and to highlight COPD prevention tips.
In this blog post, we will explore what COPD is, how to prevent COPD, and helpful resources to get more information on COPD awareness month.
Living with COPD presents physical and mental challenges that feel tough to deal with. You might feel anxious, afraid, depressed, or unsure about your future. A COPD diagnosis does not mean you can’t live life to its fullest; with the right information, you can stay socially and physically active and live your best life.
Extreme weather wreaks havoc on communities in many ways, but it can be even more devastating for people with a chronic illness such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Different types of weather will carry their unique challenges, so it is crucial to understand what to expect in various weather conditions when you have COPD to ensure your health and safety.
In this blog post, we will discuss some of the most extreme forms of weather and go over how you can prepare for them if you have COPD. Keep in mind that there might be some overlap between various weather conditions, so you might need to prepare for 2 or 3 different weather extremes at the same time. Also, these guidelines are not meant to be exhaustive when it comes to disaster preparation. Instead, the focus here is to provide specific tips if you have COPD.
When the weather changes, people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) will most likely notice it as a change in their breathing. Weather extremes can cause COPD exacerbations for different reasons, but even the typical summer heat can create poor conditions for anyone with a respiratory illness.
In this blog post, we will discuss why normal summer heat can be dangerous for people with COPD, and then we will go over some ways to stay safe.
