A WOMAN WITH CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE

- COPD IS CONSTRICTION OF THE AIRWAY ASSOCIATED MOST OFTEN WITH

LONG-TERM CIGARETTE SMOKING

EFFECT

- RISKS INCLUDE DEATH FROM SEVERE EXACERBATIONS AS WELL AS DELAYED

GROWTH, EARLY BIRTH, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT, AND CONGENITAL
MALFORMATIONS. ALTHOUGH ASTHMA AND COPD ARE NOT THE SAME, THE
END RESULT OF REDUCED OXYGEN AVAILABLE TO THE FETUS IN YOUR WOMB
WOULD BE THE SAME
- DYSPNEA, THE MOST BUREDENSOME SYMPTOM OF COPD, WORSENS OVER
TIME, REDUCING EXERCISE TOLERANCE, WHICH FURTHER LIMITS DAILY
ACTIVITIES AND REDUCES HEALTH STATUS

TREATMENT

- SOME PEOPLE WITH COPD USE OXYGEN ONLY DURING ACTIVITIES OR WHILE
SLEEPING. OTHERS USE OXYGEN ALL THE TIME. OXYGEN THERAPY CAN
IMPROVE QUALITY OF LIFE AND IS THE ONLY COPD THERAPY PROVED TO
EXTEND LIFE.
A WOMAN WITH CYSTIC FIBROSIS

- CYSTIC FIBROSIS IS A RECESSIVELY INHIBITED DISEASE IN WHICH THERE IS

GENERALIZED DYSFUNCTION OF THE EXOCRINE GLANDS
- THIS DYSFUNCTION LEADS TO MUCUOS SECRETIONS, PARTICULARLY IN THE
PANCREAS AND LUNGS, BECOMING SO VISCID OR THICK THAT NORMAL LUNG
AND PANCREATIC FUNCTION IS COMPROMISED.

EFFECT

- DURING PREGNANCY, YOUR CYSTIC FIBROSIS SYMPTOMS MAY GET WORSE.

THE GROWING BABY CAN PUT PRESSURE ON YOUR LUNGS AND MAKE IT
HARDER TO BREATHE. CONSTIPATION IS ALSO COMMON IN WOMEN WITH
CYSTIC FIBROSIS
- MOST WOMEN WITH THIS CONDITION CAN GET PREGNANT, BUT IT COULD
TAKE A LITTLE LONGER THAN USUAL. CYSTIC FIBROSIS THICKENS MUCUS
THROUGHOUT THE BODY – INCLUDING MUCUS IN THE CERVIX. THICKER
MUCUS MAKES IT HARDER FOR THE MAN’S SPERM TO SWIM INTO THE CERVIX
AND FERTILIZE AN EGG

TREATMENT

- MEDICINE, LIKE ANTIBIOTICS TO TREAT INFECTIONS

- INHALERS TO OPEN THE AIRWAYS TO THE LUNGS AND THIN MUCUS
- CHEST THERAPY TO HEALP CLEAR THE AIRWAYS TO THE LUNGS
- A FITNESS PLAN
- SUPPLEMENTS TO HELP YOUR BODY GET NUTRIENTS THAT IT MAY NOT BE
ABLE TO GET FROM FOOD.