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Respiratory disease refers to group of diseases that occur in the respiratory system of the body. It covers a variety of disease ranging from mild natured diseases like common cold to fatal diseases like pulmonary embolism and bacterial pneumonia. Diseases that occur in respiratory tracts, pleural cavity, trachea, bronchial tubes lungs and muscles associated to breathing come under the respiratory diseases. Respiratory diseases are found to be one of the major causes of death and illness. This article deals with various types of respiratory diseases, symptoms diagnosis and treatment of the respiratory diseases.

How respiratory diseases are classified?
Usually the respiratory diseases are categorized on the basis of the organ, cause and symptoms involved in the disease. Some of the respiratory diseases are mentioned as follows. One such type is the obstructive lung disease. In this disease narrowing of the bronchial tubes occur. This makes the passage of air through the tubes extremely difficult. The other type is the restrictive lung disease. In this disease type loss of lung compliance happens and is otherwise called as interstitial diseases of the lung.

Upper respiratory tract infection and lower respiratory infection are the types of respiratory tract infections. The former type is usually common cold and also includes tonsillitis and sinusitis, etc. The typical example of the latter type is pneumonia which is an infection of lung due to bacterial infection.

Respiratory diseases can be also tumors. These tumors can be benign or malignant. Some of the common types of tumors occurring in the respiratory system are adenocarcinoma, small cell and non small cell types of tumor in lung, head and neck cancer, lymphoma, melanoma, mesothelioma etc.

The respiratory diseases also include pleural cavity diseases like emphysema and pulmonary vascular diseases.

The most precious thing in the world for a human being is his health. Without a healthy life, nothing appears attractive and meaningful. Most of the times, people are unaware of the health care standards and compulsions for this reason, people have unhealthy diet patterns and frequently catch viral infections. The unhealthy diet is the basic reason behind the weakening of immune systems of body. There are people who do not eat healthy food at all because they do not know the importance of each diet element and there are some people who intentionally cut their diet.

The weight loosing trend is increasing in the developed countries due to the availability of numerous options and awareness sources. The reason for increased weight loss awareness may be due to the fact that western country people take in high cholesterol and fatty food items. The inability to burn the consumed fats make most of the people gain weight which is dangerous for the health. So for this reason the United States experts are highlighting health issues on the internet as well as on print media.

The health care research is also advanced in the developed countries. Being the world’s sole super power, United States of America is far ahead of other countries in innovation, pharmacy and medical research. The basic health acre is highly subsidized in public hospitals and nursing home but the private hospital treatments and operations are expensive. Very few countries provide low cost and free medical facilities to its citizens like Canada.

But in rest of the countries people have to spend themselves on their medication. But in developed countries people do not catch diseases frequently which save them from spending huge amounts of money on medical treatments. The patients from other countries of the world seek medical treatments in the western countries due to the advanced technology and facilities available with them. The research and technology is advancing rapidly in such countries which is becoming a source of national income. Medical instruments are prepared in the industries of European and United States’ industries and are exported to the rest of the world. Similar is the case with the medicines. The United States of America manufactures medicines and supplies it to the developing countries as they lack technology as well as expertise to manufacture certain medicines. World health organization is also developed by the advanced nations to help the nations which are far behind in this regard.