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BREATHLESSNESS – FINDING CAUSE

To find out which cause applies in your case your doctor should check for other symptoms. For example, if you are coughing yellow or green phlegm it is probably infection. If you are coughing blood, it could be cancer or blood clots on the lung. If you feel more short of breath when lying flat than when sitting or standing, your heart is probably not working properly. If you or your doctor can hear whistling sounds with your breathing, you probably have some partly blocked bronchial tubes-

Often your doctor will be able to tell the cause just by taking your history, examining you and arranging a chest X-ray, but sometimes other tests, such as a lung scan, may be advisable.

Once the cause is found, it may be possible to correct it. For example, pneumonia could be treated with antibiotics, clots on the lung with drugs to thin the blood (anticoagulants) and anaemia with a transfusion.

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