Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

COPD is the overall term used to describe a variety of illnesses, including chronic bronchitis, emphysema and chronic obstructive airways disease. People with COPD have permanently damaged lungs and find it difficult to breathe most of the time. It is possibly one of the most frustrating diseases to treat and to witness as in most instances it is self inflicted with the patients having the choice to smoke or not. It is also known as chronic obstructive lung disease (COLD), chronic obstructive airway disease (COAD), chronic airflow limitation (CAL) and chronic obstructive respiratory d...