| p>Shortness Of Breath Called Dyspnea | | | | The hemorrhage from the lungs in tuberculosis is due |
| When people get so short of breath that the very | | | | to actual erosion or destruction of blood vessels by |
| effort of breathing is difficult and when breathing is | | | | the disease. Cavities form in the lung in tuberculosis |
| harsh and labored, anyone can tell that something is | | | | due to destructive action by the germs. The blood |
| wrong. Since respiration is necessary to life difficult | | | | vessels in the walls of these cavities may be eroded. |
| breathing creates serious anxiety. Usually people | | | | One of the dangers is spread of the infection by |
| breathe eighteen to twenty times a minute, and | | | | inhaling and by forcible expulsion of germs in severe |
| regularly. The breathing is effortless and without any | | | | coughing. |
| special sensation. If breathing becomes irregular or if | | | | Among young people with hearts that have been |
| a severe effort has to be made to get enough | | | | damaged by disease, especially with narrowing of the |
| breath, pain may appear. | | | | mitral valve of the heart, the backing up of blood into |
| Anyone can get short of breath after severe work | | | | the lungs causes swelling of the large and small blood: |
| or exhaustive exercise. Shortness of breath occurs | | | | vessels with occasional breaking and therefore a |
| more often in fat people than in thin ones, in old | | | | hemorrhage from the lungs. |
| people than in young ones, and in women than in | | | | Any time blood comes from the lungs the symptom |
| men. | | | | should be taken as a warning that something serious |
| When shortness of breath is not accompanied by | | | | has occurred. |
| extra effort, the trouble may be more mental than | | | | Palpitation Of The Heart |
| physical. Anyone can imitate shortness of breath. | | | | Ordinarily we are not aware of the beating of our |
| Allergic conditions and asthma which narrow the | | | | hearts. If you do become conscious of the heart's |
| bronchial tubes bring on "wheezing." Damage to the | | | | beating, the symptom may have significance but |
| diaphragm, the lining of the chest cavity or the lungs | | | | often is unimportant. Many letters come to doctors |
| may bring about trouble in breathing. In pneumonia | | | | who write health columns from people who say they |
| when a portion of the lung is inflamed and congested, | | | | have noticed that their hearts were flopping, skipping, |
| the breathing is labored. Severe anemia, which | | | | pounding, bumping or fluttering. |
| lessens the supply of blood able to carry oxygen, | | | | If you run too hard or engage in too much muscular |
| may result in quickened breathing to get the | | | | activity an extra burden is put on your heart, and |
| necessary oxygen to the tissues. | | | | you may feel it pounding. As soon as you have |
| The most important causes of shortness of breath | | | | "caught your breath," the sensation disappears. When |
| are diseases of the heart and lung, and disorders | | | | the heart beats too rapidly, as it does in excessive |
| which in any way prevent air from getting into the | | | | action of the thyroid or in other disturbances, you |
| lungs. As with every other part of the body, damage | | | | become aware of it. People seem to be conscious of |
| to the nervous system can also be reflected in | | | | sudden alterations in the heart rate. Different people |
| serious difficulties with breathing. | | | | respond differently to various conditions that affect |
| Bleeding From The Lungs-Hemoptysis | | | | the body. Those who are placid may pass without |
| Blood coming from the lungs is usually bright red and | | | | noticing a situation that will seriously disturb a person |
| frothy whereas that from the stomach may be dark | | | | who is sensitive to minor stimulation. |
| red, brown or black and mixed with scraps of food. | | | | Palpitation may be due to sudden alteration of the |
| Vomiting is usually preceded by retching and nausea, | | | | heart rate, particularly in the cases when the heart |
| but a hemorrhage from the lung may come quietly | | | | beats too rapidly; this condition in turn may be due to |
| and without warning. Blood in the lung may be | | | | excessive action of the thyroid gland. Anemia, |
| associated with severe coughing and occasionally | | | | hemorrhage, fever, and a lessened amount of sugar |
| severe coughing may tear tissue so as to produce | | | | in the blood are other conditions in which palpitations |
| bleeding. | | | | occur. In such instances an excess of epinephrine |
| In the early stages of pneumonia a severe cough | | | | secreted by the adrenal gland may be basically |
| may bring up blood, because the lungs are at that | | | | responsible. Many people who complain of palpitation |
| time heavily congested. Such blood has a rusty or | | | | constantly swallow air while eating too rapidly; when |
| prone juice color, but may be bright red. | | | | the stomach is distended they become conscious of |
| Among the commonest causes of blood from the | | | | the beating of the heart. |
| lungs, in the absence' of tuberculosis, is the passing of | | | | Many people described as nervous and who have |
| a clot elsewhere in the body into the pulmonary | | | | nothing physically wrong complain of palpitations. |
| artery, the large blood vessel that supplies the lung | | | | These people have a cardiac neurosis in which their |
| with blood. The small blood vessels around the area | | | | minds are centered on their heart action. The |
| become congested and the irritation causes a cough | | | | suspicion that one has heart disease may set up or |
| which may bring up blood. | | | | intensify such a neurosis. A doctor can find out the |
| In chronic bronchiectasis the surface tissue of the | | | | facts, and thus cure both the neurosis and the |
| bronchial tubes may be torn with severe coughing so | | | | palpitation which arises from it. |
| that blood appears in the sputum. | | | | |