Professor Robin Condliffe

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497 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 7 Jul

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What's Up Docs? · How can we look after our amazing lungs? · 7 Jul 2026 podcast

And you can have two main issues.

You can have one called chronic bronchitis.

Again, chronic means longstanding.

Itis means inflammation, appendicitis, tonsillitis.

So bronchitis is inflammation of the bronchi.

So you'll have a productive cough.

And it also releases some enzymes

which cause damage to the lungs and makes holes in the lungs.

It looks a bit like Swiss cheese, and that's called emphysema.

So CAPD caused by smoking, significant limitation to people's exercise capacity, significant effect on the life expectancy.

That's number one.

Number two, asthma.

So asthma is a different beast, and it's very much an allergic disease.

So it's an allergic disease of the lungs.

So many people with asthma also have hay fever, eczema.

We get an allergic inflammation within the lungs.

So people generally can be very well, have normal lung function.

But if they have an exacerbation, which might be caused by not taking their inhalers or caused by an infection or pollution, then you get swelling of the airways.

And those airways, from being nice and wide, become very narrowed.

And patients get wheeze.

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