Top 10 Ways to Have a Better Quality of Life With COPD

Melanie Klein, RRT-RCP, teaches you ten ways you can improve your quality of life with COPD.

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[IsraelDFender]

Im 53 and started smoking when I was 13, and im man enough to admit im an idiot and was diagnosed with COPD a week ago after spending 6 days in the ICU and having 2 large blood clots removed from my lungs through a groin procedure. Now I have 2 different inhalers and will be on blood thinners for the rest of my life. All this info / advice is incredible and awesome…THANK YOU!

[kathleenmaguire]

I have got copd stagr 2 so i stopped smoking now for 10 weeks.
Feeling so much better & i do breathing exercises most days.

[carltaylor]

Thank you for this useful list. I'm 69 and I've had COPD for 9 years. Coping quite well as I exercise, don't smoke and eat well. I will start washing my bed linen more often after watching this. Also going to see the doctor about possible supplements...

[caitesmith]

1) Quit smoking.
2) Medications
3) Oxygen
4) Improve air quality in your home.
5) Exercise
6) Healthy Diet ( I do the Carnivore Diet)
7) Manage anxiety, depression, and stress.
8) Supplements
9) Essential oils
10) Vaccinations

[DorasVideoLog]

Why do these types of video's always show fit and healthy people doing all the things advised? Really annoys me. Why not show what the reality is for people with COPD.

[laurenmaier]

You are very positive. I need that. I don’t feel much hope.

[auntbee]

The smoke from the wildfires in Canada are really causing bad flare ups anyone else having this problem? Been hospitalized because of it !

[vanessamccarthy]

Thank you. Great advice! Can people please remind me to rewatch this video multiple times.

[suziesmith]

Does snyone know if taking Guiafenisen (sp)?, brand name Mucinex, advised? I find it helpful with staying hydrated & thinning the mucous, allowing me to cough it up more easily. Also, when I got Covid, I used an incentive spirometer to help clear mucous & exercise my lungs. NOT easy but it's a cheap device, (or you have one from being in the hospital), and you can get better at it with practice.

[davidmolloy]

Thanks very much for some great tips. xx

[philipmartin]

Can you get COPD even if you don't smoke? I have low oxygen below 93 usually when i lay down, and i get a crackling sound when I breathe in when i lay down as well

[rickbodi]

These tips are absolutely ridiculous! I like people that can breathe normally, telling people that can't, to ride bikes climb mountains, take long walks in the evening when it's damp out and exercise, let alone to push a vacuum around daily, when most of the time it's hard enough to take five steps without stopping to get your breath back no matter how hard you try. I tell people like this woman, to run to the end of a parking lot full speed, then run back full speed, now you do the stuff your telling me to do while breathing through a straw now, let's see how much of your advice you can accomplish. I bet it wouldn't be very much at all. They will never get it, until they experience it themselves. 👎

[markjohnson]

Im a idiot smoking since 13 now in hospice so young

[ranjanamitra]

Satya Mevo Jayete. Thank you dear. OM🙏

[williamoates]

Hello, helpful video, but you should not be encouraging people to eat 'Whole Grains' which recent research has shown to be inflammatory to the body, and should be avoided.

[JasonHeath-bk]

Sorry to say haveing jabs wont help any one with c.o.p.d as i no been there

[udayprabhakar]

Very you ma'am, very informative.

[jackieleggett]

Ride a bike are you kidding me im stage 4 im out of breathe walking to the toliet seriously id swap my lungs for someone given out this advice struggling to breathe ill go for a bike ride jeez

[jackieleggett]

I stopped smoking breathing got worse also I was put on a steriod inhaler too early now on stage 4 I can't do jack jeez ride a bike seriously u clearly know nothing

[ChuckKarges-qo]

But at what point u wont be able because of the emphysema I tried rehab but do to a ride there i wasn't able to keep it up I keep trying the purse breathing exercises I think I'm going down hill faster imuse a chair ❤now to get around better I need tje reduction surgery ifvvalvws dont work wontbknow til March gotbto redo ct 6;mm rml