Essay On Pulmonary Fibrosis

Pulmonary Fibrosis is a very serious disease in which most people live from 3-5 years after being diagnosed. Regular Pulmonary Fibrosis, abbreviated as PF, is a disease in which your lungs become scarred, and when they scar they do not heal. The tissue deep inside lungs becomes thick and stiff. The scarring is called fibrosis, and pulmonary means of or relating to the lungs. The scars make it difficult for the oxygen to pass through the air sacs into the bloodstream. The damage is visible by x-rays. Every person who is diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis has a unique experience with the disease. Pulmonary Fibrosis is an interesting disease. Pulmonary Fibrosis has no known discoverer, or place of discovery. It was discovered around November of 2015. There is also no known cure for this disease, but there are certain kinds of medications can prevent worsening, but the damage can never be fixed. Considering there is no cure, doctors and scientists are trying to find one. Some of the medications that you can take are Nintedanib, Pirfenidone, and …show more content…
Some symptoms of Pulmonary Fibrosis are cough, shortness of breath/ difficulty breathing, and lack of exercise tolerance. The most common type of Pulmonary Fibrosis is Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. Idiopathic means that the cause of PF is not known. For regular PF, the major causes are certain environmental toxins, certain medications, and inflammation and explanation. Some of the medical issues that Pulmonary Fibrosis can lead to are collapsed lung, lung infections, blood clots in your lungs, respiratory failure, pulmonary hypertension, fatigue, weight loss for no known reason, aching muscles and joints,clubbing (which is the widening and rounding of the tips of the fingers or toes), heart failure, and lung cancer. This disease can develop quickly or slowly, and if it gets bad enough, it becomes difficult to breathe even when you are