Can emphysema be reversed with vitamin supplements?!
Question: I'm not referring to all-trans retinoic acid which they haven't figured out how to deliver.
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Honestly, I don't think so. My mother has emphazema, and she quit smoking over 10 years ago. I'm thankful that she quit, but the damage was already there. I will tell ya, her health has improved dramatically, (not that she was in bad health before) but the cough is still there sometimes. She uses an inhaler, which was prescribed by her doctor, and she seems to do decently with that. Vitamins couldn't hurt, but to reverse emphyzema, I don't think that can happen.
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Most of the damage created by emphysema cannot be reversed. It is a progressive disease. If a person stops smoking or working in a lung hazzardous profession, than there might be some healing, but not a cure. In saying this, many of the symptoms of emphysema can be lessened with nutrition, medications such as albuterol or xopenex and perhaps some steroids oral or inhaler. Getting a flu vaccine every year to help prevent viral infections, using a clean room humidifier..getting to a doctor early on when you begin to get sick etc. Keep active.reasonable exercise will help keep your muscles strong and make breathing easier. Vitamins on their own will help with nutrition, but eating small frequent meals is as, or more important. Vitamins are ONLY a supplement.
The lung damage that precipitates emphysema happens over a long period of time..years in fact. By the time a person is diagnosed with emphysema, the majority of damage is permanent.
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