Air and Breathing is a book designed to help you understand the atmosphere, air quality, airborne diseases and their solution.

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Some Air and Breathing Topics

The Way of Breath
Atmosphere
Air Quality
Cars and Trucks
Air Pollution
Climate Change
Airborne Diseases
Air Quality inside Buildings
Environment and Medicine
Airborne Allergy
Asthma
Airborne Fungi and Disease
Airborne Viruses
Fibrosis & Sarcoidosis.
Food and Lung Disease
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The book, Air and Breathing helps you understand air quality issues, normal breathing and the causes of breathing disorders.

You will find detailed information about airborne infection, air quality and airborne hazards at home. Problems of the nose, ear and throat are discussed. Airborne allergy and food allergy causes are explained. The mechanisms of asthma are discussed and drug treatments reviewed. A chapter on respiratory infections describes viral and bacterial causes of upper respiratory disease and lung diseases. A special section on fungal diseases is included.

Air pollution and airborne outdoor causes of lung disease are also discussed with advice about improving both indoor and outdoor air quality. Asthma is a prototype of airway disease, often associated with nose and throat symptoms. Asthma sometimes merges with chronic lung disease that involves both inflammatory changes in bronchi and inflammatory changes in alveoli that involve scarring and loss of gas exchange capacity.

The three basic treatment choices for airway diseases are:

Remove the causes of disease

Treat the effects of the disease

Alter the host to be more tolerate of the causes

The large issues of air quality are survival issues for humans and all other living creatures on the planet. An up to date 2009 view of climate change and responsible action is included in this book.

Author Stephen Gislason MD 2009. Print edition and a download PDF version are available.

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