Cure

Why is there no cure for ASHTMA OR COPD?

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Also the lungs are an extremely intricate organ. Very delicate and constructed amazingly. If all our alveoli were laid out side by side they’d fill several football fields. Once damaged it’s just not reversible!

[HungryHufflepuff in reply to Hidden]

That’s an amazing fact about the alveoli, I didn’t know that 👍

[skischool in reply to HungryHufflepuff]

My alveoli,since being made redundant by me have now resurfaced both Chelsea and Man City's football pitches,and i don't even get rent.

[HungryHufflepuff in reply to skischool]

I just know that image is going to give me the weirdest dreams 👅 ⚽️ 🥅 🌱🌱🌱 (there’s no emoji of someone kicking a ball through a field of alveoli, would you believe that??)

[skischool in reply to HungryHufflepuff]

Unbelievable no emoji!? i can get the no cure for lung disease and live with that but not to have an emoji for something so simple is criminal negligence. never mind we will continue to use our vivid imaginations.

[Nickcv in reply to Hidden]

Taken from the internet: Each lung contains 300 million alveoli – if stretched out they’d cover a football field. The total surface area of the lungs is equal to a tennis court.

[Hidden in reply to Nickcv]

If you dig a little deeper in medical encyclopedias lungs are different sizes. They can be 300-500-700 million alveoli in each lung. The largest lungs will cover a little more than two+ football fields.

[hypercat54]

Oh you will have to ask the medical community for that answer. We are just the ones who have to live with it. x

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What affect's one person to cause asthma or COPD doesn't in an other person so they don't know how to make a cure. That's why they are making better meds to control it and catch it quickly and hopefully will lend to a cure

[vittorio]

ITS A STRANGE DISEASE , I KNOW SOMEONE IN THEIR EARLY EIGHTIES , WHO HAS BEEN SMOKING FOR NEARLY 65 YEARS , WHO HAD THEIR LUNGS CHECKED DURING A GENERAL HEALTH EXAMINATION , AND THEY WERE DESCRIBED AS = " PRETTY CLEAR = NO PROBLEMS " , AND YET SOMEONE WHO HAS SMOKED ONLY A FEW CIGGIES IN A FEW YEARS , GETS COPD ON THE GRAND SCALE ......SEEMS TO ME , GOOD HEALTH IS'NT FAIR ! ... AND WE ARE TOLD THAT THE LIVER CAN " REPAIR ITSELF " AFTER YEARS OF ALCOHOLIC ABUSE ..... PITY LUNGS ARE NOT CAPEABLE OF THIS !! ..…

[Davegt in reply to vittorio]

No need to shout.

[syntax in reply to Davegt]

Do not think it is intentional,think it

could be eyesight.??

[Davegt in reply to syntax]

Ok.

[Nottobad in reply to vittorio]

Very strange even people who have never smoked can get it x

[syntax in reply to vittorio]

Perhaps Stem Cells should be taken from

the Liver.They may work in the Lungs ??

[syntax]

Because pharmaceutical companies do not want us to have

cures,as there is no money ,or not as much money in it as there

is in treatments.

[vittorio in reply to syntax]

YES SYNTAX - YOU ANSWERED WELL THERE !! - , THATS WHY GENERALLY , THE FILTHY RICH LIVE LONGER THAN US ORDINARY FOLKS !! , THEY CAN AFFORD "PRIVATE " DRUGS - AT A PRICE ! ...…..LIFE'S UNFAIR AINT IT ! NOW WHERE'S MY INHALER !....

[syntax in reply to vittorio]

Vittorio,have you been given the Trimbow inhaler yet ?

lf no ask your GP about it.

[vittorio in reply to syntax]

…. ENDLESS THANKLIES SYNTAX ! - WILL BE SEEING MY DOCTOR SOON !...

[Superzob]

Asthma is an autoimmune response: your body is incorrectly responding (or exaggerating the response) to a perceived threat to your lungs. You can moderate the effect and symptoms with medication, but you can't cure it as that would require effectively switching off you immune system.

COPD is permanent, irreparable damage to the lungs, which may be caused by a variety of things, including accelerated lung aging. Everyone's lungs deteriorate with age, but COPD patients have a lung age above the normal range, and may include localised damage. But, like asthma, the condition can be managed.

[syntax in reply to Superzob]

So how do they do lung changes ? Must take a while for

the Op,and recovery.l imagine the immune system to be

down for some time !!!

[Superzob in reply to syntax]

Don't worry, surgeons won't do lung transplants, or any other major operation, if they think you're immune system is compromised in any way.

[syntax in reply to Superzob]

Did you say they cannot cure it because it would mean

switching off your immune systom.But is changing a lung

for a good one not curing it ??

[Superzob in reply to syntax]

I think we may be at cross-purposes here. My comment about autoimmunity referred to asthma; I could be wrong, but I'm not aware of lung transplants being used for asthma, but they are used, in appropriate circumstances, for COPD, which is not caused by a malfunction of the immune system.

[syntax in reply to Superzob]

My error !!

[jackdup]

Or diabetes, als, many cancers, Crohn’s disease, arthritis, MS, congestive heart failure and a myriad of other diseases.