If you're experiencing shortness of breath, fatigue, or a rapid heart rate with COPD, your oxygen levels may be low. Learn more about COPD and oxygen here.
Living with COPD
Managing COPD in the Fall can be challenging. Cold weather, allergens, and flu season can worsen symptoms. It's important to know how to manage your health.
Understanding the different stages of COPD, especially end-stage COPD is important from symptoms to treatments to postponing the last stage.
COPD is progressive; this means many people with COPD eventually develop hypoxemia, which may result in the need to use oxygen.
Small steps, reasonable expectations, and a healthy mindset are the keys to making New Year's resolutions for people with COPD.
Healthy foods can relieve COPD symptoms and boost your energy levels, help prevent respiratory infections, and thin secretions.
Breathing exercises can help you cope with episodes of breathlessness. Practicing them outside of breathing distress is also useful for when you need them.
Keep an eye out for these early signs of depression so you can get treatment started and avoid emotional catastrophe.
Journaling for COPD is an activity well worth your time and effort. It is a great way to gain new information, understand your symptoms, and find relief.
COPD flare-ups are frightening and uncomfortable, but their effects stretch far beyond the attack itself. Here are some tips for how to manage them.