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Acquired Bronchiectasis and Receiving Social Security Disability

Wednesday, October 5th, 2011

Bronchiectasis is a disease that is characterized by damage that occurs to the walls of your large airways (bronchial tubes) of your lungs. Inflammation that is the result of infection or other causes destroys the smooth muscles that allow your bronchial tubes to be elastic. Inflammation also stops secretions from being cleared that are normally made by your lung tissue.

The walls of your airways start to become irregularly shaped. Secretions start to accumulate in your distorted airways instead of being gotten rid of. This leads to the formation of a breeding ground for the growth of bacteria. These bacteria then produce more secretions, additional irritation and inflammation and airway damage. This results in a vicious cycle of damage.

Bronchiectasis is a kind of COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), along with emphysema and chronic bronchitis. Bronchiectasis may be present by itself, but usually more than one of the types of COPD are present in addition to this disease.

There are two types of bronchiectasis. If you are born with this disease, it is known as congenital bronchiectasis. If you acquire this disease later on in life, it is referred to as acquired bronchiectasis.

Acquired bronchiectasis usually develops as the result of another medical ailment.  Acquired bronchiectasis usually takes place in older children and adults. It is more common that the congenital form of this disease.

Acquired bronchiectasis develops because of recurrent inflammation or infection of your bronchial tubes. In many instances, acquired bronchiectasis begins in childhood as a complication of infection or inhaling a foreign object. Somewhere around 50% of all of the cases of acquired bronchiectasis in the United States are the result of cystic fibrosis.

There are some risk factors that may increase your likelihood of having acquired bronchiectasis. Some of these include:

Ÿ  Recurrent, severe lung infections, such as pneumonia, tuberculosis and fungal infections

Ÿ  Obstruction of your bronchial tubes that results from a foreign body

Ÿ  Abnormal lung defenses

Ÿ  Obstruction of your bronchial tubes that is brought about by a tumor.

The signs and symptoms that are brought about by acquired bronchiectasis often begin gradually. They may start months or even years after what led to the disease. Some of the signs and symptoms are:

Ÿ  A chronic cough that contains large quantities of foul-smelling sputum

Ÿ  Coughing up blood

Ÿ  Bad breath odor

Ÿ  Clubbing of your fingers

Ÿ  A bluish skin color

Ÿ  Wheezing (a high-pitched whistling sound that is made while you are breathing)

Ÿ  A cough that gets worse when you are lying down on one side

Ÿ  Weight loss that is not intentional

Ÿ  Shortness of breath that gets worse when you exercise

Ÿ  Chronic fatigue

Ÿ  Paleness of your appearance.

Your doctor will probably ask you to describe your signs and symptoms, do a physical exam and want to know your medical history in order to diagnose your acquired bronchiectasis. Your doctor will also likely want you to have some diagnostic tests and procedures to rule out other causes of your signs and symptoms, see how damaged your airways are and to identify the underlying cause of your acquired bronchiectasis. Some of these may include:

Ÿ  Chest X-ray

Ÿ  Lung function tests

Ÿ  Blood tests

Ÿ  Chest CT scan (computerized tomography).

Are you incapacitated and not able to work as a result of disability that has developed from acquired bronchiectasis and/or complications resulting from this disease.

If this is true, do you need financial assistance.

Have you applied for Social Security disability benefits or disability benefits from the Social Security Administration? Has the Social Security Administration denied your application?

If you plan on reapplying or appealing your denial, socialsecurityhome.com is the right place to be. The disability lawyer at socialsecurityhome.com knows how to work with the Social Security Administration.

Do not put this off. Call socialsecurityhome.com, today.

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Chronic Obstructive Airway Disease (COAD) and Receiving Social Security Disability

Tuesday, June 7th, 2011
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Chronic obstructive airway disease (COAD) is not a single disease, but rather it is a group of diseases that are marked by the pathological limitation of airflow in your airway that is not fully reversible. COAD is a large umbrella term that is used to refer to emphysema, chronic bronchitis and several other lung disorders.

Chronic obstructive airway disease is a lung disease in which your lungs are damaged. This makes it difficult for you to breathe. With COAD, your airways, which are the tubes that transport air in and out of your lungs, become partly obstructed. The result is that it becomes difficult for air to get in and out of your lungs.

You may wonder how large and common a problem chronic obstructive airway disease is in the United States. COAD is something that millions of Americans have to deal with. In fact, about 14 million people in the United States have chronic obstructive airway disease. COAD is the 4th leading cause of death in the United States.

Smoking is by far the leading cause of chronic obstructive airway disease. This means that smokers are the ones who are at the greatest risk of developing COAD.

However, there are other things that may contribute to the development of chronic obstructive airway disease. Occupational pollutants like cadmium, silica and asbestos have also been shown to be contributing factors in the occurrence of COAD.  Air pollution and genetics also play a role in causing chronic obstructive airway disease. Other possible factors that may lead to COAD include:

  • Increasing age
  • Allergy
  • General impaired lung function
  • Being a man
  • Repeated airway infection.

Chronic obstructive airway disease is something that usually develops slowly. In fact, it may be many years before you begin to notice the signs and symptoms of COAD. Possible signs and symptoms that you may experience with chronic obstructive airway disease are:

  • Dyspnea (feeling short of breath)
  • Wheezing
  • A persistent cough with sputum or blood
  • A decrease in exercise toleration
  • Cyanosis (bluish or purplish discoloration of your skin around your lips and nails).

You or a loved one may have chronic obstructive airway disease. COAD and/or complications that have resulted from it or other ailments that you have besides this disease may have led to the disability of you or your loved one and be the reason why you are not able to work.

If this is the case, you may need assistance. You may need financial help.

You or your loved one may have decided to apply for the financial assistance that you need from the Social Security Administration by applying for Social Security disability benefits or disability benefits because of the disability that has been caused by chronic obstructive airway disease and/or complications that have been brought about by it or other ailments that you have besides this disease. You may have already tried this option, and your claim was turned down by the Social Security Administration.

If you or your loved one is intending to reapply or appeal the denial, you really ought to keep this important fact in mind that you may not know about. It is an established fact that people who are represented by a disability attorney like the one you will find at socialsecurityhome.com are approved more often than people who do not have a disability lawyer standing with them.

Please do not hesitate or wait until tomorrow. This is far too important to you or your loved one. Contact the disability attorney at socialsecurityhome.com, today.

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Bronchitis and Receiving Social Security Disability Benefits

Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
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Bronchitis is a medical condition that happens when the inner walls that line the main air passageways of your lungs become inflamed and infected. These are the passageways that carry air to and from your lungs. Bronchitis occurs when your trachea (windpipe) and the large and small bronchi (airways) become infected and inflamed.

There are two types of bronchitis, acute and chronic. Acute bronchitis may last for several days or weeks. Chronic bronchitis lasts for more than three months in two consecutive years.

Bronchitis is a common condition. Acute bronchitis often develops from a cold or other respiratory infection. Chronic bronchitis is a more serious condition. It is a constant irritation or inflammation of the lining of your bronchial tubes.

One of the primary ways that bronchitis may affect you is with a cough that brings up green or yellowish-gray mucus. Acute bronchitis can also come with other common signs and symptoms of an upper respiratory infection. Some of these include:

§  Chest congestion

§  Sinus fullness

§  Wheezing

§  Breathlessness

§  Low fever and chills

§  Sore throat

§  Soreness and a feeling of tightness in your chest

§  Overall feeling of sickness.

Ordinarily, bronchitis would not be a disabling condition that would keep you from getting and holding a job. However, chronic bronchitis and complications along with or resulting from this disease can be debilitating. This disease and complications along with or resulting from it may be the cause of the disability of you or a loved one.

If this is your situation, you may be in need of assistance. You may need financial help.

Who will give you the financial help that you need? Where can you go? Who can you call on?

Have you or your loved one thought about applying for Social Security disability benefits or disability benefits from the Social Security Administration because of the disability caused by bronchitis and complications resulting from or along with this condition? Have you or your loved one already done this and been denied by the Social Security Administration?

You may be wondering what to do next? What options do you have? Do you have any recourse?

One option that you or your loved one has is to appeal the denial by the Social Security Administration. If you decide to do this, here is something for you to think about and consider.

You or your loved one is going to need the advice and direction of a smart disability lawyer like the one you will find at socialsecurityhome.com to stand with you in what can be a long and trying process. The reason that this is true is because people who are represented by a skilled disability attorney are approved more often than those people who do not have a lawyer.

Do not hesitate. This is something that may affect you or your loved one for the rest of your life. Contact the tried and true disability attorney at socialsecurityhome.com, today.

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Bronchiectasis and Receiving Social Security Disability Benefits

Friday, January 14th, 2011
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Bronchiectasis is a disease that is marked by damage to the walls of your bronchial tubes (large airways) of your lungs. Inflammation that results from infection or other causes destroys the smooth muscles that enable your bronchial tubes to be elastic, and it prevents secretions from being cleared that are normally produced by your lung tissue.

The walls of your airways become irregularly shaped. Secretions begin to pool in your distorted airways instead of being expelled. This results in a breeding ground for the growth of bacteria. These bacteria then cause more secretions, airway damage and additional inflammation and irritation. This leads to a vicious cycle of damage.

Bronchiectasis is a type of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), along with chronic bronchitis and emphysema. You may have bronchiectasis by itself, but usually more than one of the forms of COPD is present along with this disease.

Bronchiectasis is classified in two ways. If you are born with this condition, it is called congenital bronchiectasis. If you develop this disease later in life, it is called acquired bronchiectasis.

Although bronchiectasis is not as well known as other respiratory conditions, it causes a great deal of disability. Bronchiectasis occurs in about 1 in 100,000 people in the United States. Bronchiectasis that is not related to cystic fibrosis is more common in women than in men.

Bronchiectasis is caused by recurrent infection or inflammation of your bronchial tubes. Many times, it starts in childhood as a complication of inhaling a foreign object or infection. About 50% of all the cases of bronchiectasis in the United States are caused by cystic fibrosis.

The signs and symptoms of bronchiectasis often start gradually. They may begin months or years after what precipitated the condition. Some of the signs and symptoms include:

  • Paleness
  • Wheezing
  • Coughing up blood
  • Shortness of breath that increases with exercise
  • Bluish skin color
  • Unintentional weight loss
  • Breath odor
  • Fatigue
  • A chronic cough with large amounts of foul-smelling sputum
  • A cough that gets worse when you are lying on one side
  • Clubbing of your fingers.

You or a loved one may have bronchiectasis. Bronchiectasis and/or complications that have resulted from this disease or other conditions that are related to it may be the reason for your disability and need for financial help.

You or your loved one may plan on applying for the financial assistance that you need from the Social Security Administration by applying for Social Security disability benefits or disability benefits because of the disability caused by bronchiectasis and/or complications that have resulted from this disease or other conditions that are related to it. You or your loved one may have already tried this option and been turned down by the Social Security Administration.

If you or your loved one is thinking about reapplying or appealing the denial, consider this important fact. The truth is that people who are represented by a disability attorney like the one you will find at Social Security Home are approved more often than people who do not have a disability lawyer working for them.

Please do not delay. Contact a disability attorney through Social Security Home, today.

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Emphysema and Receiving Social Security Disability Benefits

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
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Emphysema is a lung disease. Emphysema is an obstructive lung disease because the destruction of lung tissue around smaller airways, called bronchioles, makes these airways unable to hold their shape correctly when you exhale.

Emphysema is one of a group of diseases known as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). This group of diseases is the fourth leading cause of death in America. Every year in the United States about 100,000 people die of emphysema. Unlike more common causes of death like heart disease, however, the death rate of COPD seems to be rising.

Somewhere around 17 million people have COPD in the United States. Nearly 3 million of those with COPD have emphysema. Millions more Americans are in the early stages of emphysema, and do not know that they have this chronic lung disease because signs and symptoms have not appeared yet.

Emphysema is a dangerous lung disease that damages your lungs air sacs (alveoli) that affect breathing. With emphysema, there is progressive destruction of your air sacs and the surrounding lung tissues.

When emphysema becomes advanced, large air cysts develop where healthy lung tissue used to be. Because of a lack of supportive tissue, air is trapped in your lungs. This leads to a decrease in blood oxygenation, which in turn leads to your body not getting the oxygen it needs.

A couple of the primary signs and symptoms of emphysema are shortness of breath and less ability for physical activities. As emphysema progresses you may have trouble breathing even when you are lying down. After respiratory problems like a cold or flu, you may have a very hard time breathing.

There are other effects that you may experience with emphysema. Some of these are:

  • Loss of weight and appetite
  • Fatigue
  • Mild, chronic cough.

The effects caused by emphysema can be debilitating. You or a loved one may be disabled and unable to work because of the disability caused by emphysema.

Emphysema may be the reason why you or your loved one needs help. It may be why you need financial help.

You or your loved one may have applied for that financial help from the Social Security Administration by applying for Social Security disability benefits or disability benefits because of the disability caused by emphysema. Were you or your loved one denied?

If you or your loved one is planning on appealing the denial by the Social Security Administration, here is something that you should consider. You or your loved one may need the advice and counsel of a disability lawyer like the one you will find at socialsecurityhome.com because people who have a dependable disability attorney standing with them are approved more often than those people who are not represented by a lawyer.

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COPD and Receiving Social Security Disability Benefits

Friday, November 27th, 2009

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), also known as chronic obstructive airway diseases (COAD), is a group of diseases characterized by the pathological limitation of airflow in your airway that is not fully reversible. COPD is the umbrella term for chronic bronchitis, emphysema and a range of other lung disorders.

You may wonder how big and common a problem COPD is. COPD is something that millions of Americans have to deal with. In fact, about 14 million people in the United States have COPD. It is the 4th leading cause of death in the United States.

COPD is a lung disease in which your lungs are damaged, making it hard for you to breathe. With COPD, your airways, the tubes that carry air in and out of your lungs, are partly obstructed. This makes it difficult for air to get in and out.

COPD develops slowly. It may be many years before you notice effects of COPD, like feeling short of breath (dyspnea). Other signs and symptoms of COPD include:

  • A persistent cough with sputum or blood
  • Wheezing
  • Cyanosis (bluish or purplish discoloration of your skin around your lips and nails)
  • A decrease in exercise toleration.

Most of the time, COPD is diagnosed in middle-aged or older people. The main reason for this is because COPD, as mentioned above, usually develops slowly, with signs and symptoms going unnoticed for many years.

COPD may be something you or a loved one has to deal with. COPD may be the reason for your disability. COPD may be the reason why you are unable to work.

COPD may be the reason that you or your loved one needs help. It may be why you need financial help.

What will you do? Where will that financial assistance come from that you need? Who can you count on to help you, financially?

You or your loved one may have applied for that financial help from the Social Security Administration in the form of Social Security disability benefits or disability benefits because of the disability caused by COPD. Were you or your loved one denied by the Social Security Administration.

You or your loved one may plan to appeal the denial by the Social Security Administration. If this is what you or your loved one decides to do, there is something important that you should know.

You will need the advice and counsel of a disability lawyer like the one you will find at socialsecurityhome.com to stand with you in what can prove to be an arduous and trying process. The reason for this being true is because people who have a disability attorney standing with them are approved more often than those people who are not represented by a lawyer.

This is something that may affect you or your loved one for the rest of their life. Do not wait. Do not put this off. Contact the disability attorney at socialsecurityhome.com, today.

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