Question 1

does restrictive lung disease affect children?

Accepted Answer

Yes: But more often children are affected be "reactive or constrictive" lung disease like asthma.Restrictive lung disease(think emphysema) usually affects older people(cystic fibrosis is the exception).

Question 2

will brown lung disease affect children differently than adults?

Accepted Answer

Hopefully not in kid: Byssinosis, brown lung disease, is an inflammatory condition of the lungs & breathing tubes that occurs in persons working with raw cotton, flax, sisal & hemp. Constantly breathing the dust of these materials results in symptoms of asthma. Continued exposure for many years can cause irreversible lung damage. Age is not a factor. Children may be exposed in third-world textile factories.

Question 3

what are some treatable lung diseases in children?

Accepted Answer

All are treatable: The common lung diseases in children are pneumonia, bronchitis, and asthma. Croup is a viral illness that involves the area of the airway around and just below the vocal cords, the subglottic space. It's not really a lung disease but it is a lower airway disease and quite common. Outside the us tuberculosis is a common treatable pediatric lung disease.

Question 4

how do i tell my children i have end stage lung disease?

Accepted Answer

Get help: The real answer depends on how old your children are and how close you are to them.  Often it helps to talk to a pediatric social worker or psychiatrist (or your pastor/clergy member etc) in order to correctly frame it, but there is no easy, right, or perfect way to break bad news to children.  Get help, do a dry run, ask your pulmonologist to join you.

Question 5

is there any research in the field of children's interstitial lung disease?

Accepted Answer

Check resources: This group of rare childhood interstitial lung diseases encompasses many different conditions. Go to http://www.Nih.Gov/health/clinicaltrials/findingatrial.Htm or http://www.Child-foundation.Com/ for more info or to contact a researcher in this  field.

Question 6

what elsecan be done to promote awareness of children's interstitial lung disease?

Accepted Answer

A lot can be done: Children's interstitial lung disease is rare & their treatment is best managed by pediatric pulmonologists at tertiary care centers that are experienced with the diagnosis & management of these rare conditions. To promote awareness, organizing lectures and seminars for the general population & medical community would be thebest way to get the word out. Also promoting research would help find cures.

Question 7

is c.o.p.d. a real lung disease?

Accepted Answer

YES!!: Chronic obstructive lung disease. This is a heading for chronic bronchitis/asthma and emphysema. One may have overlap with eachother. This is diagnosed with a history and physical as well as chest xray and pulmonary function test.
Copd is not interchangeable with emphysema.

Question 8

do you know if c.o.p.d. is a real lung disease?

Accepted Answer

Yes. It totally is.: COPD stands for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. 
It is a long term (chronic) disease of the lungs (pulmonary) characterized by poor airflow out of the lungs (obstructive). It is unfortunately common and sometimes very serious, even life-threatening.

Question 9

is emphysima and c.o.p.d the same lung disease or are they different?

Accepted Answer

Different: Emphysema is the loss of alveolar tissue or air sacs. COPD is disease of the airways often associated with infections.  Smokers generally have a mixture of both disorders.  Because they often occur in the same person there is confusion about the exact meaning of these terms.

Question 10

what is lung disease?

Accepted Answer

Disease of lung: Variety of diseases involved lung and its componants as respiratory system in whole.
Shahzeidi, md.

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