Lungs and Breathing

Created by your PAMF doctors and staff

• What Is Asthma?


• Asthma Facts vs. Fictions


• How to Use Your Metered-Dose Inhaler the Right Way (.pdf NIH)


• How to Control Things That Make Your Asthma Worse (.pdf NIH)


• What Everyone Should Know About Asthma Control (.pdf NIH)


• Using a Metered-Dose Inhaler with Spacer (.pdf)


• Bronchitis Instructions


• Decongestant


• Nasal Saline Irrigations (.pdf)


• Understanding Positive PPD Skin Tests after BCG Vaccination


• Positive PPD Skin Tests and Preventing Tuberculosis Disease


• Smoking Cessation Programs

HealthWise Articles

• Acute Bronchitis
  
• Bronchiolitis
  
• Lung nuclear medicine scan
  
• Asthma in Teens and Adults


• Bronchitis, Acute


• Emphysema, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)


• Coughs


• Flu (influenza)


• Lung Cancer


• Pneumonia

Additional Web Sites

The PAMF Web site has numerous links to other Internet pages, which might have information on health topics of interest to you. PAMF, however, does not sponsor or endorse any of these sites, nor does PAMF guarantee the accuracy of the information contained on them.

• American Lung Association. Accessed December 2007.


• What Is Asthma? National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Accessed December 2007.


• Lung Cancer Fact Sheet, American Lung Association. Accessed December 2007.


• COPD and Asthma, National Lung Health Education Program. Accessed December 2007.


• Tuberculosis, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious. Accessed December 2007.


• Pneumonia, Nemours Foundation. Accessed December 2007.