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Doctors across the Fylde Coast are urging residents with breathing problems and long-term lung conditions to stay healthy as winter bites.
In Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre, around 9,000 people have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) ? the name for a collection of lung diseases including chronic bronchitis and emphysema which cause breathing difficulties.
Dr Tony Naughton, clinical chief officer at NHS Fylde and Wyre Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), said: ?Symptoms can be much worse in the winter with cold air causing patients? airways to become narrower, making it more difficult to breathe. However, there are things you can do to help stop your COPD becoming worse.
http://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/n...octors-say-breathe-easy-this-winter-1-6319541
In Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre, around 9,000 people have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) ? the name for a collection of lung diseases including chronic bronchitis and emphysema which cause breathing difficulties.
Dr Tony Naughton, clinical chief officer at NHS Fylde and Wyre Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), said: ?Symptoms can be much worse in the winter with cold air causing patients? airways to become narrower, making it more difficult to breathe. However, there are things you can do to help stop your COPD becoming worse.
http://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/n...octors-say-breathe-easy-this-winter-1-6319541