The Brussels Post, 1974-02-06, Page 10Guard against blocked breathing
Babies and toddlers try to get
their hands on everything, in
sight. And what gets .into. their
hands often goes, into their
mouths or, even up the nose. From,
there, an object can get lodged in
their lungs, And that means
trouble.
A pea or peanut or marble can
be small enough to go up the nose
and almost anything can get into
the mouth and be ''swallowed the
wrong way." Instead of going
down the throat and into the
the air passages, and a cough
results. The cough is an attempt
to dislodge the build-up.'
Adults, too, can have
bronchiectasis and may even feel
well despite their "graveyard
cough". A convulsive cough,.
thick mucus with pus, and
spitting up blood are signs of
serious trouble.
stomach, the object can go. down '
the windpipe and into the air
passages of the lungs. A
breathing passage can be
damaged permanently unless the
object, is removed quickly,
A foreign body can cause
trouble, but so can other
situations, The blocking of an air
passage can, happen as an
aftermath of a pneumonia that
complicated measles, whooping
cough, or influenza if a baby or
young child has TB,- a similar
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blocking can occur,.
Blocking an air passage,
combined with an infection, can
cause a disease called
bronchiectasis. The combination
damages the structures that
sweep Out dirt and germs from
the lungs--the Cilia. Cilia sweep in
an upward motion that forces
particles toward the mouth,
where they are swallowed and
then sent back to the stomach.
When the cilia are weakened,
mucus and particles build up in
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