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What Is COPD?

Chronic bronchitis and emphysema are symptoms of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which is a long-term lung disease that makes breathing difficult. Millions of Americans are affected by the disease, which is the third biggest cause of death in the Country. The good news is that COPD may often be avoided and treated. Here you’ll find resources, tools, and information to help you better understand COPD, manage treatment and lifestyle adjustments, get support, and take action.

Symptoms

COPD causes difficulty. initially, the symptoms may be mild, with occasional coughing and shortness of breath. Symptoms can grow more consistent as time goes on, making breathing increasingly difficult.

You may have wheezing and chest tightness, as well as excessive sputum production. Rapid exacerbations, or flare-ups of severe symptoms, occur in some patients with COPD.

Early symptoms

  • shortness of breath on occasion, especially after exercise
  • mild but recurrent cough
  • which require regular clearing of the throat, especially first thing in the morning

Worsening symptoms

Symptoms can get progressively worse and harder to ignore. As the lungs become more damaged, you may experience:

  • Shortness of breath, especially during breaths, after even light forms of exercise such as walking up a flight of stairs
  • wheezing, which is a type of higher-pitched loud breathing.
  • chest tightness
  • chronic cough (mucus or no mucus)
  • Every day, you must clean mucus from your lungs.
  • colds, flu, or other respiratory diseases on a regular basis
  • lack of energy
  • fatigue
  • swelling of the feet, ankles, or legs
  • weight loss
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