Ashley F. Darlington

💡TL;DR: Most COPD devices do one of three jobs: open airways, move mucus, or add oxygen. Inhalers are fastest when your technique is solid; nebulizers are slower but easier to breathe from during flares. If testing shows low oxygen, prescribed oxygen therapy keeps levels safe and can improve survival

How Long Does It Take for Your Lungs to Heal from Vaping? 💡TL;DR: Your lungs start healing within days after you quit vaping, and most people notice easier breathing within weeks. Cilia begin clearing mucus early, so a brief rise in cough is normal, then cough and stamina improve

💡TL;DR: With COPD, the hardest jobs are those with heavy physical effort or dirty air. Avoid roles that make you breathe harder or inhale dust, fumes, or smoke; they can trigger flares and speed decline. Clean-air, low-exertion work is safest, and use respirators or accommodations if you must stay

💡TL;DR: Use sterile 0.9% normal saline for most infants; it matches body salt levels and is gentle on tiny airways. Hypertonic 3% saline is for very thick mucus (such as some cases of bronchiolitis) and should be used only if your pediatrician prescribes it; 7% is specialist-directed. Plan

💡TL;DR: Asthma rarely goes away on its own — it is a chronic airway disease — but symptoms can enter remission for years, especially after mild childhood asthma. About 25 million Americans live with asthma (American Lung Association), and remission is far less likely when asthma starts in adulthood (≈6% achieve

💡TL;DR: Most people with well-controlled asthma have healthy pregnancies. Asthma may improve, worsen, or stay the same; symptoms often peak around weeks 24–36 and usually return to baseline by about 3 months postpartum. About 4–8% of pregnancies are affected by asthma, and the biggest risk is from

💡TL;DR: Hospital nebulizers are supervised, high‑output systems for severe flare‑ups; home nebulizers are compact devices for routine control and early symptoms. Home treatments typically take 5-15 minutes per dose, while hospitals can give back-to-back or continuous treatments with oxygen and monitoring. Home units are quieter and portable

💡TL;DR: Asthma is chronic and noninfectious; acute bronchitis is usually a short-term infection with mucus. About 90% of acute bronchitis cases are viral, so antibiotics usually are not needed. Asthma often needs daily controller medicine plus a rescue inhaler, while acute bronchitis typically improves in 1–3 weeks with

💡TL;DR: Asthma is a chronic airway disease you manage long term; pneumonia is an acute lung infection you treat and usually cure. Typical clues: wheezing without fever = asthma; fever plus a wet cough = pneumonia. Doctors confirm asthma with spirometry and pneumonia with a chest X-ray; pneumonia leads to about