Professor Robin Condliffe

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What's Up Docs? · Doctors' Notes: Lungs Special at Crossed Wires Festival · 7 Jul 2026 podcast

So symptoms related to lungs include breathlessness, cough, wheeze, coughing up blood.

So if you do any of those, something's going on.

Now, we all get seasonal chest infections, viral infections.

So we all have a cough.

But if you have a cough and it persists for a large number of weeks, six weeks, unless you've got a smoking history, then you should see your GP.

If you get breathless...

then something going on.

That breathlessness could be caused by other things.

You might be anemic, you might have heart disease, but you might well have lung disease.

Wheeze is a really important symptom for people with undiagnosed asthma.

If you get wheeze, especially at night, people often have a cough and wheeze at night, or wheeze on exercise, then that would also suggest that someone might have asthma or COPD if they smoke.

So they're the symptoms to look out for, because really you shouldn't have those symptoms apart from if you've got a bit of a chest infection.

Very much so, very, very much so.

We come across people

I see quite a lot of people with blood clots.

We're not talking about the blood vessels in the lungs, and they're really important.

And we talked about tiny clots, but big clots, which start in the leg and go around up through the right side of the heart.

And then if they block one of your pulmonary arteries, that's called a pulmonary embolism.

So we have people who present with pulmonary embolism.

They've been well.

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