When you are diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), you will have to make some adjustments in your life to help reduce your symptoms and conserve your energy. Taking steps to make your daily life easier can help control your shortness of breath, fatigue, and other common COPD symptoms.
Here are some strategies you can use every day to help you adjust to life with COPD.
Participate in pulmonary rehabilitation. Pulmonary rehabilitation for COPD "can improve [COPD patients'] quality of life, their breathlessness, and their functional strength,". Pulmonary rehabilitation consists of exercise, nutritional counseling, and education to help you learn to live with COPD. It helps "COPD patients stay active and functional and not have to give in to their disease".
Practice breathing control. Your respiratory therapist can teach you techniques such as pursed-lip breathing and diaphragmatic breathing. These can help reduce the shortness of breath you may sometimes feel during various activities.
Find shortcuts for your daily activities. Find ways to make your everyday activities easier to perform. For instance, when you get out of the shower, put on an absorbent robe rather than using your energy to towel-dry yourself.
Monday, June 15, 2009
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