One of the aspects that the medical community has highlighted the most for many years is that good lung function is essential for the other organs of the human body to be healthy.
Therefore, it is essential that people do not expose themselves to toxic agents such as pollution generated by cigarette smoke, which can cause lung cancer. And it is that according to the World Health Organization (WHO) exposure to Air pollution causes 4.2 million deaths worldwide each year.
In this sense, it is necessary, due to so many harmful external agents in the environment, that the lungs and respiratory tract be cleaned frequently to avoid the appearance of different diseases.
For this reason, the portal Medical News Today offers some recommendations to cleanse the lungs:
Similarly, the consumption of vitamin D can help keep these organs healthy, as it helps reduce the risk of respiratory infections. Saber Vivir cites a Japanese investigation carried out with a group of students, which concluded that the contribution of vitamin D during the cold months protected 40% of the participants once morest the flu.
On the other hand, another study published in Nature Immunology, indicates that if the levels of this vitamin are low, the killer cells of the immune system are not activated, so they cannot mobilize and act once morest pathogens that come from abroad. It can be obtained from foods such as oily fish, eggs and mushrooms; in addition to sun exposure.
What are the main symptoms of lung cancer?
- Cough: it is the most frequent sign of lung cancer and can be dry or productive. With it, expulsion of mucous secretion, infected mucus or even blood is produced.
- Dyspnea: characterized by the feeling of shortness of breath or difficulty breathing. This symptom usually appears following making a significant effort or with small physical activities.
- Dysphonia: occurs continuously or intermittently, due to an alteration in the mobility of the vocal cords or paralysis, and affects the recurrent nerve responsible for its movement.
- Dysphagia (difficulty swallowing): It can occur with both solid and liquid food. This difficulty is due to compression of the esophagus by the existence of lymph nodes or by the tumor itself.
- Constant chest pain: can be increased by deep breathing or coughing.
- Vena cava syndrome: occurs when the body’s main vein becomes blocked or partially compressed.
- Repeated respiratory infections over time.
This disease, according to Cinfasalud, can also reflect other symptoms called paraneoplastic, which are manifestations that are not directly produced by the tumor or by metastasis, but are linked to the release of some substance or to the activation of the immune system.
