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| Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease | With chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), it is difficult to get a good night sleep. You have to use the medications that either energizes you or you have to use the restroom frequently during the night.
Depression and anxiety can also impair your sleep.
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is referred to two lung diseases which include chronic bronchitis and emphysema.
Both can cause obstruction of the airways. Bronchitis is the inflammation of the bronchi and emphysema is damage to the smaller airways and airsacs of the lungs. 
In majority cases, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is caused due to smoking. Air pollution can cause or make the condition worse.
COPD symptoms:
• Breathlessness and wheezing occurs when you exert yourself at first. If you continue to smoke, these symptoms become worse gradually.
• Cough is usually developed and it comes and tends to go at first. Gradually, it becomes chronic. I the beginning, you think it as smoking cough, but, once breathlessness begins, you realize it as the symptom of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
• Mucus is made in large due to the damaged airways. This forms sputum and you cough lot of sputum every day.
• If you have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), chest infections are common. If you have chest infection, wheezing with cough and breathlessness become worse.
COPD diagnosis:
The diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease can be made by your doctor by asking some questions.
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