{"id":13061,"date":"2024-05-28T10:50:19","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T14:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/?p=13061"},"modified":"2024-05-28T10:51:53","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T14:51:53","slug":"lung-disease-signs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/lung-disease-signs\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Know the Signs of Lung Disease?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your lungs move fresh oxygen into every cell of your body. Most of the time, you probably don&#8217;t even think about breathing. But when lung disease happens, it can bring pain and make breathing a struggle. Some common types of lung disease are asthma, emphysema, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and lung cancer.<\/p>\n<p>The symptoms of lung disease can be hard to notice at first. For instance, you might think a cough (or another symptom) is just something that happens when you get older. However, you should stay alert for these common symptoms:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chronic cough<\/li>\n<li>Chronic mucus production<\/li>\n<li>Chronic chest pain<\/li>\n<li>Shortness of breath<\/li>\n<li>Coughing up blood<\/li>\n<li>Wheezing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Any of these symptoms could be signs of lung disease\u2014if you experience them, see your doctor to rule out something serious.<\/p>\n<p><strong>An ounce of prevention\u2014<\/strong>thankfully, there are things you can do to help prevent lung disease:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Don&#8217;t smoke<\/li>\n<li>Get regular checkups<\/li>\n<li>Exercise<\/li>\n<li>Do breathing exercises<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Health New England can help:<\/strong> As a member, if you have been diagnosed with COPD or Asthma, we offer a Care Management program that can help you, at no cost.<br \/>\nTo learn more, simply contact our Care Management department at (413) 787-4000, ext. 3940 (TTY: 711), Monday\u2014Friday, 8 a.m.\u20145 p.m.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Source: American Lung Association<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your lungs move fresh oxygen into every cell of your body. Most of the time, you probably don&#8217;t even think about breathing. But when lung disease happens, it can bring pain and make breathing a struggle. Some common types of lung disease are asthma, emphysema, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and lung cancer. The symptoms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":13063,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[1112,1135,378],"class_list":["post-13061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medicare","tag-care-management-program","tag-lung-disease","tag-medicare"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/GettyImages-1360866086.jpg?fit=724%2C483&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZZGa-3oF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13061"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13064,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13061\/revisions\/13064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}