COPD, what is and what treatment? – Public domain image from the book ‘Anatomy of Gray’ COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, belongs to a category three lung disease called chronic obstructive bronchopaties.

In this group are COPD, emphysema and chronic bronchitis. The cause of these three evils is smoke snuff. Asthma is another pulmonary disease that can be triggered from the smoke.

Snuff smoke deteriorates slowly and persistent mucous membranes of the respiratory tree. This disease is characterized by the presence of a poorly reversible chronic airway obstruction and oxygen flow.

Furthermore, the alveolar wall destruction makes the lung loses its elasticity. At this stage the assault of cigarette smoke to the lungs is devastating: the smoker begins to kill slowly and painfully. Continue Reading