We celebrate Lung Month this August to encourage healthy living and taking care of your lungs! In this month’s Lung Awareness celebration, Medi Linx stands with you to raise awareness, encourage healthy choices, promote early screening for lung conditions, and advocate for better research and treatment.
This article will discuss the importance of caring for your lungs and screening for lung cancer.
Why Is it Important To Take Care of Your Lungs?
- Breathing Function and Efficiency: Our lungs transport oxygen into the bloodstream. They also work together with other body parts so that we can breathe properly and thus, keep us alive. For example, we use the diaphragm muscles, the intercostal muscles between the ribs, the muscles of the abdomen, and sometimes even the muscles in the neck to breathe.
- Better Holistic Health: Keeping your lungs healthy can prevent respiratory infections and diseases. Poor lung health can lead to severe conditions like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), asthma, and lung cancer.
- Quality of Life: Lung issues significantly affect quality of life. Chronic lung issues, in particular, can negatively impact quality of life and lead to shortness of breath, fatigue, and reduced ability to engage in daily activities.
- Prevention: Staying healthy can prevent complications related to respiratory illnesses like lung abscesses and pneumonia.
Taking Action This Lung Awareness Month 2024
- Early Screening, Detection, and Treatment: Early screening can help detect lung cancer and is crucial in recovering from it. The earlier your condition is detected, the stronger your chance of recovery because of immediate treatment.
- Healthy Lifestyle: A healthy lifestyle can make a difference in the quality of your life and the function of your lungs. Some ways to practice this are:
- Quit smoking: Smoking can result in lung airway damage.
- Exercising regularly: Regular exercise helps expand lung capacity.
- Annual check-ups: Even if you may feel well, it is crucial to go on check-ups regularly. If you have breathing problems, your doctor should be the first one to learn about them.
- Take precautions against seasonal flu and pneumonia: Keep yourself updated with shots for flu and pneumonia. Vaccines protect the immune system and will keep your lungs healthy.
- Support: Support people you know who struggle with lung conditions and those who struggle with quitting smoking. Encourage them to regularly screen, book their check-ups, and quit smoking for the sake of their health.
- Advocate for better healthcare and the environment: Support initiatives such as Lung Awareness Month that advocate for improved and more accessible healthcare for all. Supporting environmental initiatives is also important because our air quality can impact our lungs’ condition.
Take Action Today With Medi Linx!
Take action today by booking Medi Linx Laboratory Inc. as your partner in better holistic health!
We offer laboratory procedures and packages, including the pro-Gastrin-Releasing Peptide (pro-GRP), executive check-up, pre-employment medical exam, urinalysis, and more. Book us online through our website Virtual Lab, contact us at 0939-9227341, or visit our QC Lab on the 2nd floor of Avire Tower P. Tuazon Blvd. Project 4, Quezon City.
