Pulmonologist

The pulmonologist – the therapist who is engaged in treatment of diseases of respiratory system. The pulmonologist carries out treatment of pneumonia, bronchitis, emphysema, bronchial asthma. Competence of the pulmonologist includes studying of diseases of a respiratory organs, namely, lungs, a trachea, a pleura, bronchial tubes.

The children's pulmonologist is engaged in diagnosis and treatment of diseases of a respiratory organs at children. The main factor in work of the children's pulmonologist is objective assessment of the state of health of the little patient as children often cannot precisely describe the symptoms. Therefore the pulmonologist, according to reviews, has to have wide experience of work and be able to estimate the state of health of the child on indirect signs, and, if necessary, to appoint the sparing inspection methods.

What does the pulmonologist treat?

The pulmonologist is engaged in treatment of all diseases connected with respiratory system. Such catarrhal diseases as pharyngitis, rhinitis, bronchitis, pneumonia, a bronchiolitis, laryngitis, tonsillitis, a nasopharyngitis, and also bronchial asthma, pleurisy, a fibroziruyushchy alveolitis, a bronchoectatic disease, malignant pleurisy, bronchitis of the smoker, a chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, chronic respiratory insufficiency, emphysema of lungs, a chronic or acute bronchitis, long pneumonia, fevers of the obscure etiology concern to them.

The pulmonologist is engaged in the following bodies: lungs, bronchial tubes.

What the pulmonologist children's treats?

Treat diseases in which the children's pulmonologist is engaged: chronic bronchitis, bronchial asthma, pneumonia and chronic cough.

Treat bodies in which the children's pulmonologist is engaged: tracheas, lungs, throat, throat, paranasal sinuses, bronchial tubes.

When it is necessary to register in reception to the pulmonologist?

At manifestation of symptoms of a disease of a respiratory organs the patient needs to descend on reception to the pulmonologist. But how to distinguish these symptoms if they are so similar to symptoms of many other diseases? The most common symptoms are:

• Cough. The special center of a brain is responsible for developing of cough (kashlevy) which at irritation of respiratory tracts is activated. Cough, inherently, is defense reaction of an organism on activators (foreign debris, dust, bronchial slime). Cough is dangerous that it, according to pulmonologists, can "leave in" an organism, that is, extend to lungs that is fraught with serious complications. Therefore at emergence of cough it is better not to shelve visit to the pulmonologist.
• Cough of the smoker. Such cough arises preferential in the mornings and turns into expectoration of a phlegm. This symptom demonstrates development of chronic bronchitis, and over time can turn into respiratory insufficiency or emphysema of lungs.
• Asthma at rest. At a pulmonary disease an asthma at rest demonstrates development of emphysema of lungs. If similar short wind develops suddenly, then it can testify to extensive pneumonia or heavy disturbance of cordial activity.
• Asthma with difficulty of an exhalation. This symptom can demonstrate existence of bronchial asthma or obstructive bronchitis. At emergence of a similar asthma it is necessary to register immediately in reception to the pulmonologist.

In addition to above-mentioned symptoms it is also worth paying attention to symptoms of bronchial asthma: an itch of eyes, sneezing, vasomotor reactions from mucous a nose, pristupoobrazny cough, a headache, feeling of shortage of air, squeezing in a breast, an expiratory asthma. At emergence of these symptoms consultation of the pulmonologist is necessary.

When it is necessary to address the children's pulmonologist?

Parents need to watch a state and behavior of the children carefully. As we know, the earlier to reveal a disease, the more successfully and quicker there will take place its treatment. According to pulmonologists, parents have to pay attention to the following signs: intoxication, emergence of a phlegm, cough, breath disturbance, asthma. All these symptoms, their degree of manifestation and character, play an important role directed by the correct diagnosis and the choice of the corresponding treatment.

What analyses the pulmonologist will demand?

• Skin tests;
• Research of allocations from a nasal cavity;
• Provocative tests;
• General blood test;
• Determination of level of immunoglobulin E in blood serum.

In what types of diagnosis the pulmonologist is engaged?

For specification of the diagnosis the pulmonologist can direct the patient to passing of the following types of diagnoses:

• Computer tomography;
• Echocardiography;
• X-ray diagnosis, research of function of external respiration.

Councils of the pulmonologist

How to define pneumonia:

• It is necessary to register in reception to the pulmonologist and to conduct the corresponding medical research. In certain cases blood test and a X-ray analysis of a thorax can be required. Usually, for diagnosis of these analyses it is enough.
• In case of finding of any complications additional analyses can be required. The pulmonologist can also check slime from lungs to reveal an infestant. Besides, this analysis will help the pulmonologist to decide on an optimum way of treatment.