5 Tips For Holiday Traveling With A Lung Disease

No matter what your holiday itinerary is, there are 5 major tips you need to follow to make sure your lung condition doesn’t keep you or your family members grounded...

Everything You Need To Know About The Pulmonary Function Test (PFT)

Read to find out the purpose of each pulmonary fiction test prescribed and feel comfortable discussing pulmonary fiction tests with your doctor.

What Types Of Sleep Disorders Can Be Treated With Sleep Medicine?

Sleeping difficulties affect more than 75 percent of Americans between the ages of 20 and 59. Poor sleep or difficulty falling asleep can result from a number of factors including stress, poor health, obesity and outside influences. When sleep issues continue to occur on a regular basis and interfere with daily life, they may indicate a sleep disorder. A continued lack of sleep can affect productivity, concentration, mood and overall health. Here are the sleep disorders that can be treated thanks to sleep medicine:

5 Things We Are Thankful For This Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is a unique holiday for Pulmonary Associates of Brandon, so we would like to share 5 special things we are particularly thankful for this Thanksgiving:

How Cold Weather Causes Trouble For Your Respiratory System

As winter sets in and the temperature drops, typically, the air becomes drier. And for people with asthma, COPD, or bronchitis this dry air means throat irritation, wheezing, coughing, and shortness of breath. Cold weather and respiratory disorders are linked for a few reasons. Let’s look at what those are and how to deal with them

5 Sleep Disorders You Probably Didn’t Know About


There are a number of sleep disorders that aren’t commonly known to the general public and oftentimes go undiagnosed. Parasomnias, for example, encompass an entire group of sleep disorders that affect people’s ability to fall asleep, remain asleep, or wake up, and there are several parasomnias that are fairly unknown. Here are 5 Parasomnias you’ve probably never heard about.

How To Sleep Well When Switching Time Zones

Whether you’re busy racking up frequent flier miles traveling for work or just enjoy spending your vacation time jet-setting to distant locations, chances are you’ve experienced some jet lag. This is especially common when traveling to different time zones. Every day, millions of travelers struggle against jet lag, one of the most common sleep issues. The good news is some simple behavioral adjustments can help minimize the side effects of jet lag.

How Cold Weather Causes Respiratory Issues

As winter sets in and the temperature drops, the air typically becomes drier. And for people with asthma, COPD, or bronchitis this dry air means throat irritation, wheezing, coughing, and shortness of breath. Cold weather and respiratory disorders are linked for a few reasons. Let’s look at why and how to deal with it.

5 Tips For Traveling With Oxygen

Air travel is stressful at the best of times, but it can be nearly impossible for patients with pulmonary hypertension since traveling at high altitudes can cause a decrease in oxygen level in the blood. For some patients, air travel may be out of the question altogether, but this is not always the case.

How Diabetes Impacts Your Lung Health

Oftentimes it can be difficult to figure out exactly how one condition affects another, and nailing down the particulars of the relationship between diabetes and lung conditions is no exception. However, recent studies have suggested that there is a relationship between the two and that one can impact the other. Learn more about how diabetes impacts your lung health:

Pulmonary Services: What Is Pulmonary Critical Care

 Pulmonary Services: What Is Pulmonary Critical Care

Pulmonary critical care, or critical care medicine, is a specialized field of emergency medicine that focuses on patients suffering from injuries and diseases of the respiratory or pulmonary system, which includes the lungs, trachea, diaphragm, and related structures. Critical care pulmonologists are specifically trained to provide life-saving care for patients who are experiencing respiratory issues, such as multi-system failure and other life-threatening situations.

Summer Asthma Triggers To Avoid

Being aware of your asthma triggers is an important part of assuring yourself a great summer. These could be general asthma triggers, personal asthma triggers, or the asthma triggers that live in your surroundings and bother your symptoms in a small-scale but daily way. Here are 4 of the main summertime asthma triggers that could affect you or your family.

The Complete Checklist For First-Time Pulmonary And Sleep Patients

If it's your first visit to a pulmonologist, you should prepare yourself for the appointment following this checklist. To begin, please print and fill out the New Patient Form prior to your first appointment

3 Ways A Pulmonologist Can Help You If You’ve Experienced Asbestos Exposure

Thanks to health codes, regulations, and increased medical knowledge, many avoidable cases of asbestosis are prevented but there are still certain professions where asbestos exposure is a potential concern, primarily for demolition workers, firefighters, automobile workers, drywall removers, and asbestos removers.

The Treatments, Causes, And Symptoms of COPD

You may have heard the acronym COPD tossed around without truly knowing what this disease, or rather group of diseases entails. Millions of Americans are affected by COPD, and many of them are not even aware that they have it. If you or someone you know have been diagnosed with COPD, or think you may be suffering from COPD, here is everything you need to know about the condition.

Sleep 101: Exploring The Difference Between Nightmares And Night Terrors

There is actually a big difference between nightmares and night terrors, and it’s easy to tell them apart once you know the symptoms of each, which we will discuss. In addition, we’ve also listed out some tips to help you determine when you should seek medical care for your night terrors.