COPD and Lung Health

Self-Management and Prevention of COPD

Self-Management arrangement in COPD includes quitting smoking, improving exercise and physical activity levels, proper nutrition, and medication adherence. It is concentrating on a system for the exacerbation, and enhanced communication between the patient and health care providers make good clinical sense. It is deliberated an integral component of chronic care model of disease management which involves health care organization, community resources, delivery system redesign, and clinical information systems.

It helps the patient to acquire knowledge and skills required to follow the medical therapies. An efficient review of self-management in COPD concluded that it reduces hospital admissions and has no adverse effects.

Prevention of COPD

Primary Prevention: Avoid exposure, Help fight for clean air, never start smoking or quit smoking, reduce your exposure to COPD causing irritants

Secondary Prevention: Vaccination and Physical activity