Post titleCOLD AIR CAUSES PNEUMONIA AND KILLS THE ELDERLY AND PEOPLE WITH COPD

Hi Folks,
Yes! cold air causes respiratory distress. Not only when the body is cold, but even when the body is warm and cool air is breathed in, it causes the lungs and air passages to secrete fluids, which in the elderly and those with COPD makes it hard to breath. This is magnified greatly when an elderly person is in the hospital because the body is already distressed. It is the biggest cause of elderly death and also those with COPD. Any physician knows that pneumonia means fluid on the lungs and in most elderly cases and those with COPD is not necessarily caused by infection. Sure, antibiotics are administered, but that is done to prevent infection and not to cure it. For the elderly and especially the very elderly and those with COPD, it is very important to maintain an air temperature of not less than 74 degrees farenheit and critical while in the hospital and even more so if the patient is in ICU. A person in respiratory distress [struggling to breathe] usually feels hot but that is because the body is warm from the exertion of trying to breathe. When the distress is eased by warming the room, the person will cool down. At 74 degrees, the patient doesn't need much covers, just enough to be comfortably warm. When you enter the patients room, you will know if it is too cold and it almost always is. The nurses are, in many cases, cooperative in raising the thermostat to warm up the room. If they object, it must be insisted upon and they will cooperate. In most cases by saying that to warm the room is for the patients comfort [ which is true] will make those who object cooperate.

Think that the cold, flu, and pneumonia season is in the time of cold weather.