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Saccular Bronchiectasis and Receiving Social Security Disability

Friday, February 4th, 2011

Bronchiectasis is a disease that is evidenced by damage to the walls of your large airways (bronchial tubes) of your lungs. Inflammation resulting from infection or other causes destroys the smooth muscles that enable your bronchial tubes to be elastic. It keeps secretions from being cleared that are normally produced by your lung tissue.

The walls of your airways become irregularly shaped. Secretions start to pool in your dilated (widened) airways instead of being expelled. The result is a breeding ground for the growth of bacteria. These bacteria then cause airway damage, more secretions and additional irritation and inflammation. This results in a vicious cycle of damage.

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.

There are three different forms of bronchiectasis. They are cylindrical, cystic and saccular.

Saccular bronchiectasis is marked by dilated (widened) bronchi that are irregular or saccular in shape. Your bronchial divisions are greatly reduced with this disease.

Saccular bronchiectasis is more severe than cylindrical bronchiectasis. It is not as severe as cystic bronchiectasis.

There are several different signs and symptoms that you may experience with saccular bronchiectasis. The severity of the signs and symptoms differ significantly from person to person. Signs and symptoms may include:

  • Coughing up blood
  • A chronic cough that produces large amounts of discolored or odorous sputum
  • Coughing that gets worse at night and when you are lying down
  • Wheezing
  • Abnormal chest sounds
  • Skin discoloration
  • Weakness
  • Paleness
  • Fatigue
  • Unintentional weight loss
  • Shortness of breath that increases during exercise
  • Breath odor
  • Clubbing of your fingers.

You or a loved one may have saccular bronchiectasis. Saccular bronchiectasis and/or complications that have resulted from or other conditions that you may have along with this disease may have resulted in you or your loved one’s disability. It may be what is keeping you or your loved one from working.

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

You or your loved one may be intending to apply for the financial help that you need from the Social Security Administration by applying for Social Security disability benefits or disability benefits because of the disability caused by saccular bronchiectasis and/or complications that have resulted from or other conditions that you may have along with this disease. You or your loved one may have already taken this step, and your application was denied by the Social Security Administration.

If you or your loved one is planning on reapplying or appealing the denial, here is something important that you need to be aware of. The simple truth is that people who have a disability lawyer standing with them are approved more often than people who are not represented by a disability attorney.

Please do not wait. This is far too important to you or your loved one. Contact the disability lawyer at Social Security Home, 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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Cystic Fibrosis and Receiving Social Security Disability

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
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Did you know that cystic fibrosis (CF) is sometimes called “65 roses”? This life threatening disease got its nickname from a little boy who overheard his mother talking on the phone about this condition. Every time he heard his mother say, “cystic fibrosis,” he thought she was talking about 65 roses.

Cystic fibrosis is an inherited disease of the mucous and sweat glands. It affects mainly your lungs, pancreas, intestines, liver, sex organs and sinuses. Cystic fibrosis affects the cells that make mucous, sweat, saliva and digestive juices.

These secretions are usually slippery and thin. If you have cystic fibrosis, however, these secretions become sticky and thick. The secretions stop up ducts, passageways and tubes, especially in your pancreas and lungs. The most dangerous result of cystic fibrosis is respiratory failure.

It is estimated that about 30,000 people have cystic fibrosis in America, and about 70,000 worldwide. About 1,000 new cases of cystic fibrosis are diagnosed every year.

More than 70% of the patients are diagnosed by age 2. More than 40% of the people with cystic fibrosis are 18 or older. The median age of survival for people with cystic fibrosis in 2006 was 37.

There are a variety of ways that cystic fibrosis may affect you. These signs and symptoms may be different depending on your age.

With infants the first sign of cystic fibrosis may be a blockage of their intestines. Other indications in newborns are:

  • Frequent lung infections
  • Extremely salty-tasting skin
  • Wheezing or shortness of breath
  • Persistent coughing, at times with phlegm
  • Frequent bulky, greasy stools or difficulty with bowel movements
  • Poor weight/growth gain in spite of good appetite
  • Abdominal swelling
  • Vomiting
  • Dehydration.

In children and young adults some of the signs and symptoms are:

  • Foul-smelling, greasy stools
  • Blockage in the bowels
  • A salty taste to the skin
  • Thick sputum
  • Delayed growth
  • Frequent sinus and chest infections with recurring bronchitis or pneumonia
  • Rounding or enlargement of the toes and fingertips
  • Protrusion of part of the rectum through the anus.

Cystic fibrosis can also involve cirrhosis of the liver, displacement of one part of your intestine into another part of the intestine and growths in your nasal passages.

Is cystic fibrosis preventing you from working? Is this disorder the cause of your disability?

Have you applied for Social Security disability benefits or disability benefits from the Social Security Administration because of the disability caused by cystic fibrosis? Were you denied?

If you are thinking about appealing the denial by the Social Security Administration, you will need a disability lawyer like the one at socialsecurityhome.com to assist you in this process. This is true because people who are represented by a disability attorney are approved more often than those people who do not have a lawyer.

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