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How To Prevent Lung Cancer
What are the symptoms of lung cancer? You should be suspicious if you have a nagging cough that brings up blood-streaked sputum, more so if you smoke and have a family history of the disease. Other warning signs are shortness of breath, hoarseness, chest pain, arm or shoulder pain, loss of appetite and weight.
“Generally, lung cancer is first suspected because of your physical symptoms or because an abnormal mass appears on a routine chest X-ray. Loss of appetite and weight may be the first signs of a lung cancer. In this case, the first step is to determine with certainty whether or not cancer is present. In addition to a regular chest X-ray, tomograms (special chest X-rays that give a highly localized view of the lung) or other special studies such as a CT scan may be obtained,” according to Dr. David E. Larson, editor-in-chief of the “Mayo Clinic Family Health Book.”
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Obstructive Sleep Apnea – How My Husband Was Cured In Two Weeks
Sleep apnea. It’s not only hard on the heart of the person who has it, it’s hard on the hearts or relationship of the couple involved.
In 1999 my husband, David, added a diagnosis of severe sleep apnea to the growing list including arthritis, Farmer’s Lung, obesity and ED. Sleep apnea according to The Mayo Clinic Family Health Book is a disorder in which there are recurrent episodes of breathing stoppage during sleep. Those episodes may be from five to thirty or more in an hour. Sleep apnea can be diagnosed with an overnight sleep test.
The severity is determined by how often and how long the “apneas” last. Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) can be accompanied by loud snoring. David’s sleep test showed he had 73 episodes an hour with the longest event at 38 seconds making it severe OSA. It was suggested that losing weight would reduce the symptoms.
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