Karen: How do we keep our lungs healthy before we get a virus?
Dr. Eugene Gu:
The best way to keep our lungs healthy, first of all, is to not damage our lungs. There are a lot of smokers out there. We founded Cool Quit to stop smoking, precisely for reason like this. It damages your lungs. It damages your immune system too, so it makes you very susceptible to the Coronavirus. Even vaping.
The best way to keep our lungs healthy, first of all, is to not damage our lungs. There are a lot of smokers out there. We founded Cool Quit to stop smoking, precisely for reason like this. It damages your lungs. It damages your immune system too, so it makes you very susceptible to the Coronavirus. Even vaping.
Vaping is 90% less harmful than smoking, but it’s still harmful.
It damages your lungs and makes you vulnerable to the Coronavirus.
It damages your lungs and makes you vulnerable to the Coronavirus.
So, if you are a smoker or vaper, come to Cool Quit and we’ll help you quit that too. You don’t have to have the Coronavirus to use our free telemedicine services. We’ll help you quit your tobacco addiction.
In addition, to not putting bad harmful things into your lungs, there are things that we can do to keep our lungs healthy.
Dr. Eugene Gu: Cardiovascular exercise.
A lot of us are stuck at home but there are a lot of home aerobic exercises (jumping jacks, jump rope, push-ups, sit-ups). If you don’t have a jump rope, you can order one online.
A lot of us are stuck at home but there are a lot of home aerobic exercises (jumping jacks, jump rope, push-ups, sit-ups). If you don’t have a jump rope, you can order one online.
YouTube does a lot of home exercises that you can do that get your heart pumping and get you breathing faster. We know from many studies that doing a lot of exercises can increase your lung capacity.
And if you think about this. If you get the coronavirus and you get that dreaded complication, the ARDS (Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome), it’s all about how much lung capacity that you have to spare.
The more that you exercise, the more that you do the deep breathing, and get your heart pumping, and stay as healthy as you can during this time, if you, God forbid, get the Coronavirus, you’ll have a lot more lung to spare, in case something goes wrong.
Drew McCaskill:
What about people that are uninsured right now?
A lot of people are trying to figure out...am I sick enough to go get help yet?
What about people that are uninsured right now?
A lot of people are trying to figure out...am I sick enough to go get help yet?
Dr. Eugene Gu:
I want everyone to know, that if you're uninsured, there's a federal law called EMTALA. It's an Emergency Care Act, where no matter what, no emergency room can deny you care in the life of an emergency.
I want everyone to know, that if you're uninsured, there's a federal law called EMTALA. It's an Emergency Care Act, where no matter what, no emergency room can deny you care in the life of an emergency.
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