The Best Pulmonology Hospital in Karaikudi
The department of pulmonology at Global Mission Hospital offers comprehensive evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment to patients with respiratory tract, lungs, and airway diseases. We use the latest protocols and evidence-based medicine to treat our patients. We provide our patients access to the latest advances in pulmonology with the help of world-class equipment. We find the root cause of the problem that’s troubling the patient and treat it to prevent chronic lung conditions which might lead to significant health problems. Any pulmonological disease and disorder can be treated by the skilled pulmonologists at our department. Our doctors are well experienced in the diagnosis and treatment of various airway and lung diseases.
Commonly Treated Diseases
- Asthma: In asthma, the airways get narrow, leading to shortness of breath, cough, and wheezing. Other symptoms include difficulty in breathing and bluish coloration of the mucous membrane and the skin. It can be treated through medication, such as inhalers or nebulizers. In some cases, bronchial thermoplasty can be done which lowers the amount of the bulk of smooth muscles, thereby leading to dilation of the airways.
- COPD: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder is a disease that is characterised by persistent respiratory symptoms, such as cough and breathlessness that progresses. It can be treated through medication, physical therapy, and in severe cases, surgery.
- Bronchitis: The bronchial tubes, the airways that supply air to your lungs, become swollen. Symptoms include cough, fatigue, shortness of breath, discomfort in the chest, slight fever, chills, and mucus production. Most of the time, it gets better on its own. In other cases, medication can be taken, or pulmonary rehabilitation can be done to treat bronchitis.
- Pneumonia: The air sacs present in the lungs get infected. Symptoms include severe cough with phlegm, chills, difficulty breathing, diarrhoea, and in severe cases, bloody cough or cyanosis. It can be treated with medication and oxygen therapy.
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Pulmonary Oedema: There is excessive watery fluid in the lungs, making it very difficult for the lungs to function. This condition causes the body to struggle to obtain enough oxygen. It is of two types – acute and chronic pulmonary oedema.
- Acute Pulmonary Oedema: Symptoms include rapid and irregular heartbeat, wheezing or gasping for breath, a feeling of suffocation or drowning, anxiety, restlessness, cough producing frothy sputum with blood, extreme shortness of breath that worsens when lying down, and chest pain if caused by heart disease.
- Chronic Pulmonary Oedema: Symptoms include wheezing, swollen lower extremities, problems with breathing during exertion, difficulty breathing while lying flat, waking up in the night with breathlessness that goes away when sitting up, and increased shortness of breath during physical activity.