Natural Treatment for Pneumonia
As you grow older, it is very common to be infected by respiratory diseases. The changes that occur in respiratory system with age; results in high incidence and prevalence of these diseases amongst the elders. Lungs in the old people are lighter and there is a loss of elastic fibers which maintain the potency of small airways. This results in the gradual decline of vital capacity and forced expiratory volume with age. The lung compliance also starts deteriorating due to the changes like calcification of the coastal cartilages and arthritis of costo-vetebral joints leading to stiffening of the rib cage. If you are older, your risk of suffering and dying from respiratory problems is higher. The post-mortem on the old revealed the bronchopneumonic changes of some type. Risk of dying from pneumonia doubles every decade after you are 20.
