Sentences with phrase «underlying lung problems»

My thoughts move to my patients — children with asthma and elderly patients with underlying lung problems, as well as the young firefighters, construction, and farm workers who have to work long days outside.

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Influenza remains a major health problem in the United States, resulting each year in an estimated 36,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations.4 Those who have been shown to be at high risk for the complications of influenza infection are children 6 to 23 months of age; healthy persons 65 years of age or older; adults and children with chronic diseases, including asthma, heart and lung disease, and diabetes; residents of nursing homes and other long - term care facilities; and pregnant women.4 It is for this reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implications.

She may just still be recovering (especially if you have only had her home for a couple of days) but they will want to listen to her heart and lungs and make sure she doesn't have an underlying heart problem.

The first rule for travelers with underlying health problems such as cancer, heart disease, lung conditions, anemia, and diabetes or those on any regular form of medication or treatment or recently had surgery is to consult with their doctor before deciding to travel by air.