Breathe Easy Week is the annual awareness event, focusing on lung health. It takes place from 18 – 24 June 2018. Each year, Breathe Easy Week raises awareness of lung conditions and helps to fund life-changing research and our important support and campaigning work. […]
People who experience breathlessness because of lung disease often stay away from exercise in case it makes their condition worse. We need to help them change their way of thinking. Being a member of one of the British Lung Foundation’s Breathe Easy groups – Nottingham West – I’ve seen how people can benefit from exercise, […]
People with lung conditions like COPD and asthma are often breathless. Damage to airways and lung tissue means that the lungs fail to empty properly, a process called gas-trapping. Because their airways have narrowed and they have lost elastic recoil in their lungs, it is more difficult to exhale. They may start to breathe in […]