Treatment chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (copd) in Ein Bokek (Dead Sea)

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in modern medical practice is called an inflammatory disease in which the passability of the distal bronchi is disturbed and changes occur in the structure of the lungs and blood vessels. The main factor in the development of COPD is smoking and only about 5% of cases are associated with harmful working conditions, poor environmental conditions and respiratory infections in children. In the initial stages of the disease is asymptomatic, manifesting in the moderate or severe stage with cough sputum and shortness of breath. Then the sputum becomes purulent, it becomes more. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease can develop in two ways: according to the bronchitis or emphysema form. Bronchitis type of COPD is characterized by intoxication, severe cough with sputum, bronchial obstruction, cyanosis of the skin. Emphysematous type of the disease is characterized by shortness of breath with difficulty exhalation prevails in the symptomatology, the chest becomes barrel-shaped, the skin takes on a pink-gray shade. Treatment is primarily medication: bronchodilators, mucolytics, inhalations with glucocorticosteroids, antibiotics for exacerbations, oxygenation, pulmonary rehabilitation. Mandatory conditions are a complete cessation of smoking and the exclusion of the effects of occupational hazards.