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    A WOMAN WITH CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE

    - COPD IS CONSTRICTION OF THE AIRWAY ASSOCIATED MOST OFTEN WITH


    LONG-TERM CIGARETTE SMOKING

    EFFECT

    - RISKS INCLUDE DEATH FROM SEVERE EXACERBATIONS AS WELL AS DELAYED


    GROWTH, EARLY BIRTH, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT, AND CONGENITAL
    MALFORMATIONS. ALTHOUGH ASTHMA AND COPD ARE NOT THE SAME, THE
    END RESULT OF REDUCED OXYGEN AVAILABLE TO THE FETUS IN YOUR WOMB
    WOULD BE THE SAME
    - DYSPNEA, THE MOST BUREDENSOME SYMPTOM OF COPD, WORSENS OVER
    TIME, REDUCING EXERCISE TOLERANCE, WHICH FURTHER LIMITS DAILY
    ACTIVITIES AND REDUCES HEALTH STATUS

    TREATMENT

    - SOME PEOPLE WITH COPD USE OXYGEN ONLY DURING ACTIVITIES OR WHILE
    SLEEPING. OTHERS USE OXYGEN ALL THE TIME. OXYGEN THERAPY CAN
    IMPROVE QUALITY OF LIFE AND IS THE ONLY COPD THERAPY PROVED TO
    EXTEND LIFE.
    A WOMAN WITH CYSTIC FIBROSIS

    - CYSTIC FIBROSIS IS A RECESSIVELY INHIBITED DISEASE IN WHICH THERE IS


    GENERALIZED DYSFUNCTION OF THE EXOCRINE GLANDS
    - THIS DYSFUNCTION LEADS TO MUCUOS SECRETIONS, PARTICULARLY IN THE
    PANCREAS AND LUNGS, BECOMING SO VISCID OR THICK THAT NORMAL LUNG
    AND PANCREATIC FUNCTION IS COMPROMISED.

    EFFECT

    - DURING PREGNANCY, YOUR CYSTIC FIBROSIS SYMPTOMS MAY GET WORSE.


    THE GROWING BABY CAN PUT PRESSURE ON YOUR LUNGS AND MAKE IT
    HARDER TO BREATHE. CONSTIPATION IS ALSO COMMON IN WOMEN WITH
    CYSTIC FIBROSIS
    - MOST WOMEN WITH THIS CONDITION CAN GET PREGNANT, BUT IT COULD
    TAKE A LITTLE LONGER THAN USUAL. CYSTIC FIBROSIS THICKENS MUCUS
    THROUGHOUT THE BODY – INCLUDING MUCUS IN THE CERVIX. THICKER
    MUCUS MAKES IT HARDER FOR THE MAN’S SPERM TO SWIM INTO THE CERVIX
    AND FERTILIZE AN EGG

    TREATMENT

    - MEDICINE, LIKE ANTIBIOTICS TO TREAT INFECTIONS


    - INHALERS TO OPEN THE AIRWAYS TO THE LUNGS AND THIN MUCUS
    - CHEST THERAPY TO HEALP CLEAR THE AIRWAYS TO THE LUNGS
    - A FITNESS PLAN
    - SUPPLEMENTS TO HELP YOUR BODY GET NUTRIENTS THAT IT MAY NOT BE
    ABLE TO GET FROM FOOD.

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