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Tag: lung health
What To Know About Dry Drowning
“Dry drowning” isn’t a medical term. But if you have a water incident, whether water enters your lungs or not, lung injury can occur. Experts explain what you need to know.
How Vaping or Smoking Impacts Your Physical Activity
Plain and simple: Vaping isn’t a safe alternative to smoking cigarettes. Both vaping and smoking are dangerous to your health and impact your athletic performance.
Cases of Legionnaires’ Disease, a Bacterial Lung Infection Spread by Water, are Growing
Legionnaires’ disease is a form of pneumonia caused by Legionella bacteria. Outbreaks are commonly associated with large-scale water systems in hotels, hospitals, long-term care facilities and cruise ships. It occurs most often in a certain set of at-risk people.
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Chronic Beryllium Disease: When Hazardous Dust on the Job Hurts Your Lungs
Thousands of workers each year are exposed to the metal beryllium, which can lead to chronic beryllium disease (CBD), aka berylliosis. Breathing this metallic dust can cause serious lung disease. Find out if you’re at risk and what to do about it.
