What causes lung damage, apart from smoking or predispositions to hereditary con!


Question: I'm aware of this... mining work/absetos/working with birds is bad for people with lung conditions. Anything else? Pneumonia can also cause lung damage if not treated with antibiotics.
Anything else?
Thanks.


Answers: I'm aware of this... mining work/absetos/working with birds is bad for people with lung conditions. Anything else? Pneumonia can also cause lung damage if not treated with antibiotics.
Anything else?
Thanks.

The inside of a lung is a very delicate structure; almost anything that gets in there can destroy its ability to operate, and most of the things that can be inhaled, will also damage the tissues.

The inner surfaces of the lung's air spaces ('alveoli') are wet, so moisture in the air won't harm them. Even breathing in water (eg while drowning) won't cause damage to the lung. But water usually has other things suspended or dissolved in it. So if sea water is inhaled, this can cause very severe problems even after a rescue has been successfully performed. 'Fresh' water can cause similar problems, if it is polluted. It usually is; recovery from inhaling or swallowing river water from any of the UK's major rivers (the ones that pass through cities) will require hospital supervision.

'Choking on vomit' is often mentioned as a cause of death, especially associated with the deaths of heavy drug users, but it's not particularly accurate. Even if somebody is drugged heavily enough to impair their movement, vomit is usually too liquid to block their airway. But because the liquid will contain a lot of stomach acid and digestive enzymes, it can cause massive damage to the delicate inner lung surface. Basically, it digests lung tissue in the same way that it would digest food.

Anything that can be carried around by the air ('aerosol materials') can also cause lung damage. The most common of these are produced by vehicle engines. Carbon Monoxide interferes with the circulation of oxygen by destroying the blood's ability to transport it, rather than by damaging the lungs. But other pollutants produced by 'internal combustion' engines (such as ozone, nitric and nitrous oxides, and sooty 'particulate exhaust' from diesel & biofuel engines) will react with the lining of the lung, and damage it.

A very prominent source of air pollution is smoking. this introduces a lot of different chemicals into the lung (intentionally, because this is how the beneficial-feeling nicotine is obtained from the tobacco), and many of these damage the lung in a range of different ways.

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Wish I knew the answer to that one. My father has a terminal illness called pulmonary fibrosis. It's not hereditary and he's never smoked or worked with dodgy substances. If you find the answer please let me know.

Edit: Oh great. I've just read the answer above mine. That's really cheered me up. Not.

Hello there! i'm a medical student and I could share a little about what i learned at school.

Iatrogenic causes, meaning a result of any medical procedures, can result to a lung injury. For example, intubation using a laryngoscope can cause direct lung injury through strictures or trauma. When intubating, especially in emergency cases, medical personnel doing the resuscitation may injure the bronchus thus causing an inflammatory reaction to the Lung's airways.

Aspiration, wherein foreign body is introduced to the lungs (i.e. water, food particles, mucus), secondary to conditions that paralyze the inert capacity of the epiglottis to guard the airways can cause Pneumonitis. This can be one of the causes of lung injury.

i have damage due to smoking 48yrs,spend 2months in hosp.life support 2 times from throwing up in hosp,,out like a lite tube..ICU was like home, thought that i was mint to be there.. boy was sick.,,my doctor i call on every other cough,no change in my think about that hospital..stopped smoking over 2yrs now..lot best now//writing this makes me feel good. thanks





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