Respiratory diseases share the same manifestation from simple diseases like flu to the more serious disease like bronchiogenic carcinoma
1- cough
Drybronchitis
Productivesmoker, chronic bronchitis .
2- sputum
color: white , yellow (mean there is infection) or green (must serious one).
3-Haemoptysis:- it is coughing of blood whether mixed with the sputum or pure.
It may be small in amounts or large in amounts.
The causes of large amounts of haemoptysis:
1. Bronchiectasis.
2. Lung abscess.
3. Tuberculosis.
4-CHEST PAIN Chest pain is a frequent manifestation of both cardiac and respiratory disease and is considered in detail on.
Pleural or chest wall involvement by lung disease gives rise to peripheral chest pain which is exacerbated by deep breathing or coughing).
**Massive pulmonary embolus may cause ischaemic cardiac pain as well as severe breathlessness.
5-Breathlessness or dyspnoea
Causes :Heart failure
Respiratory failure
Pneumonia
Asthma
Metabolic :diabetic ketoacidosis –renal failure
Dyspnoea in asthma is associated with episodes of wheeze or chest tightness, varying in severity over time
6-Cyanosis
7-clubbing:- loss of the angle between the nail and nail bedCauses of the clubbing:
1. Lung abscess.
2. Fibrosing alveoli.
3. Bronchiogenic carcinoma.