Lungs that are affected by COPD

Living With COPD

Life with COPD can be a challenge, but it can be easier if you learn and use strategies to cope with symptoms like shortness of breath. Discover ways to maintain your health and live well with COPD.
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Surgery Risks for COPD Patients
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How to Keep Working When You Have COPD
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Should You Use a Pulse Oximeter to Monitor Your COPD?
Vegetables
Healthy Food to Include in a COPD Diet
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How to Manage Panic Attacks When You Have COPD
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How You Can Get Better Sleep When You Have COPD
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Tips for Traveling with Supplemental Oxygen
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The Best Home Pulmonary Rehab Exercise Equipment
Lungs
Why COPD and Heart Failure Go Hand-in-Hand
Pink Heart Shape Padlock And Key
Why Right-Sided Heart Failure Is a Major Concern for People With COPD
Functional Fitness for COPD and Asthma
The 9 Best Exercise DVDs to Help COPD Patients Get in Shape
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How Does Pneumothorax Develop in the Lungs?
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Pulmonary Rehabilitation Benefits for COPD Patients
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How Controlled Coughing Helps COPD
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How to Travel Wisely When You Have COPD
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Do You Have COPD? You're at Risk for This Reflux Disorder.
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COPD Can Make Your Oxygen Levels Drop at Night
Oxygen therapy
What Respiratory Failure Means
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Oxygen Therapy During a Power Outage
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Why Exercise Is Important if You Have COPD
Why Won't My Cough Go Away?
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How Can a Healthy Diet Help Manage COPD?
Senior Woman Coughing While Standing On Field During Foggy Winter
Find Out How Bronchiectasis Makes You Feel
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Coping with Heat When You Have COPD
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Planning and Communication Are Key to Intimacy With COPD
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How Eating Well Can Help You Manage COPD
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Learn How to Stop Your Anxiety Over Breathing When You Have COPD
Female patient with nasal cannula
An Overview of Nasal Cannulas
Smoking as pollution
4 Tips for Avoiding Secondhand Smoke on the Road With COPD
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How to Properly Use an Incentive Spirometer
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Antioxidants May Help Treat Patients With COPD
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10 Ways to Conserve Your Energy If You Have COPD
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Using a Bronchodilator Inhaler the Right Way Is Tricky
Portable Oxygen Concentrators
The 8 Best Portable Oxygen Concentrators of 2021
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The Benefits of Walking for People With COPD
Doctor injecting senior patient in clinic
What to Know About COPD and the Pneumonia Vaccine
Smoking is a big risk factor for COPD.
The Many Hazards of Cigarette Smoking
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Do Herbal and Alternative Remedies Help COPD?
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Adult Vital Signs and How to Measure Them
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Getting Started With a Low Sodium Diet for COPD
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Predicting Life Expectancy in People With COPD
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Everything You Need to Know About Bronchiectasis
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Practical Tips for COPD Pain Management
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Why COPD Causes Fatigue
A man is short of breath.
5 Tips to Reduce Shortness of Breath in Cold Weather
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Why Some Healthy or Everyday Foods May Worsen Your COPD Symptoms
Oxygen therapy
How to Get Medicare to Cover Your Oxygen Supplies
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How Alcohol Affects Lung Disease
Quitting Smoking
10 Lifestyle Changes That Can Improve COPD
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Diagnosis of Bronchiectasis
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How Quitting Smoking Can Help Your Lungs—Even After a COPD Diagnosis
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Can an Anti-Inflammation Diet Help People With COPD?
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5 Ways to Prevent COPD From Getting Worse
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Vitamin D Deficiency and COPD
How to Be Safe When Using Supplemental Oxygen Therapy
Sleep Apnea
What Should You Do If You Have COPD and Sleep Apnea?
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How Secondhand Smoke Can Cause Many Illnesses
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These Conditions Are the Most Common Complications of COPD
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Top 10 Houseplants That Clean Indoor Air Quality
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Health Problems That Complicate the Effects of COPD