12 October - "World Day of Spirometry and Lung Health"

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12 October - "World Day of Spirometry and Lung Health"

The main and most effective method for detecting chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (HOBL) is spirometry. For this reason, beginning with 2003 World Spirometry and Lung Health Day is celebrated in more than eighty countries around the world. The main goal of the action is to attract the population to the examination of the respiratory system for the early detection of COPD, as well as various pathological processes in the lungs.

COPD is characterized by persistent disruption of airflow from the lungs. It's underdiagnosed, life-threatening disease, obstructing normal breathing, and manifested by shortness of breath, shortness of breath, cough. As a result, the body suffers from chronic oxygen deficiency, which adversely affects almost all metabolic processes and often leads to disability.

Наиболее частой причиной возникновения ХОБЛ является курение – многие заядлые курильщики даже не задумываются о том, that they are already sick. COPD is also an occupational disease of miners., railway workers, builders, in contact with cement, workers in the pulp and paper and metallurgical industries.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in the beginning is almost asymptomatic, which can lead to neglect and irreversibility of the process.

Spirometry - respiratory function test method, including measurement of volumetric and speed indicators of respiration. During spirometry, changes in lung volume during breathing are recorded and graphically recorded.

Spirometry is used:

• for the study and diagnosis of the function of external respiration, bronchial asthma;
• for the diagnosis of COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease);
• to assess the state of the human respiratory system in respiratory diseases and during various medical events;
• to determine the respiratory capacity and to measure the vital capacity of the lungs.

Spirometry allows you to calculate all the basic parameters of breathing and visualize the breathing process.

Pay attention to the health of your lungs and learn the function of external respiration with spirometry!

12 October 2020 of the year, by calling the "direct line" number of the institution "Gomel Regional Tuberculosis Hospital" by phone. 8(0232) 20-19-61 with 12.00 to 13.00, You can get advice from pulmonologists of the 3rd Pulmonology Department, and also ask your questions.

Ekaterina Tolkacheva, doctor-valeologist

public health department

Gomel Regional Center for Central Generation and Health