A Disease Called Non-Cystic Fibrosis Bronchiectasis

Posted by aradigm on February 20th, 2017

Human beings are vulnerable to disease causing agents. Some pathogens attack general health of human beings from external environment, while other find shelter and keep multiplying health issues from within the body of an individual. Non- CF Bronchiectasis is a respiratory or lungs disorder according to popular belief. It can be said that Bronchiectasis is a lung disease that is featured with permanent enlargement of parts of the airways of the lung. Symptoms generally may include a chronic cough productive of mucus. Coughing up mucus and difficulties to breathe properly are the most common symptoms. Other symptoms can include shortness of breath, coughing up blood, and chest pain, wheezing and  nail clubbing.

Like cystic fibrosis this disease also cannot be completely cured but the signs and symptoms that cause difficulties and issues can be managed to a considerable extent. If not properly diagnosed and treated then this disease is known to make way for several more complicated diseases. This disease is not fatal but challenges the general overall health of the patient very badly.

Non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis is a respiratory disorder that is affecting people or has been affecting people for a longer time. It cannot be completely cured, so once you get attacked by this disease you have to keep taking treatments available for this all through your life. It is a serious respiratory disease to date. It is a chronic pathology that makes it mandatory for the patients to keep undergoing continuous treatment.

The signs and symptoms that are already mentioned in the first paragraph can be treated or what is right to say controlled but the disease cannot be got totally rid of. Several forms of this respiratory disease exist and only a few of them respond positively to treatments options available till date. Some that can be treated directly include certain immunodeficiencies, nontuberculous mycobacterial infection, and allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillos.

Bronchial hygiene can b eimproved; infections can be taken care of and managed and inflammation reduction can be tried. These are some of the symptoms that can be positively deal with through direct treatment. Non- Cystic Fibrosis Bronchiectasis. Surgical treatments can be recommended by doctors for those patients who find no relief of any kind through any other form of mild treatment options.

Non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis is generally also termed an ‘orphan disease’, It is featured with significant morbidity and mortality. The recently conducted medical survey says that a huge number of patients get admitted to hospitals due to this specific disease every year.  

Dependable and thorough research activity has not been conducted much on this specific disease though, which has not helped discovering reliable and effective drugs and treatments to deal with this disease. This is a shame that when so many people suffer from this every year and so many people keep suffering from this disease for lifetime as no cure for complete recovery is available, no proper and dependable research has been tried doing on this. This results in the disease attacking more people and being incurable.

About the Author:

The writer is an expert in the field of Aradigm-Biodefense with focus on Chronic Lung Infections Antibiotics