Cold waves are dangerous for lung disease

Program warns people with lung disease on the effects of the weather, had a positive effect and reduces the frequency of hospital stay by one-fifth reported British researchers. The program was attended by 8,000 patients treated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with different methods. According to experts, the cold weather is very harmful for this group of patients, and cold can cause aggravation. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) - a disease amenable prevention and treatment, by restricted air flow through the respiratory tract, which is not fully reversible. Injury of the airways, usually progressive and. With abnormal inflammatory reaction in the lung effects harmful particles or gases, especially smoking, and a cold air stream In the UK alone, the disease affects more than 900 thousand people. Even cold air aggravates symptoms of infectious respiratory diseases, narrowing them, which in turn makes it difficult to breath by scientists. Respiratory infections are usually in winter.