Does lung tissue repair itself ?
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Certain types of lung damage can be repaired by removing the source of the problem (inflammation from smoking), or by treating a specific disease with antibiotics (bacterial pneumonia). Other damage, like the scarring from pulmonary fibrosis, cannot be repaired. Once the lung forms scar tissue, that scar tissue is there forever.
From what sort of damage? In some cases yes and others no, depends on what happened to it.
Once the presence of toxins is gone from the lungs, yes they heal themselves.
Depends on what is wrong. Cancer? No. Heals after quitting smoking? Yes - to some degree.
I'm not a doctor, but I do know that my husband had some COPD and when I stopped smoking his condition improved markedly (after I was a few years quit.) This took away any illusion I had of second hand smoke not being harmful to others. I don't know the mechanics of why my husband got better but I would think he had experienced some sort of tissue repair.
But wait for an expert's answer :) This is just my experience.
all tissue heals to a certain extent
mucus membranes can heal totally.
the cilia in the lungs can also heal totally
unfortunately for the main body of the lungs the healing is laid down as scar tissue which can cause shortness of breath
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depends on what you mean. If you have traumatic lung damage such as contusions yes same as any other tissue. If you mean can it regrow following a pneumonectmy no. Damage to the internal lung stucture from disease from smoking or cancer I dont think so. Disease usually causes copd and is a chronic worsening condition that will mor thatn likely be the ultimate cause of death.1
Yes the tissue does repair itself
if the tissue is destroyed or has cancer it will not repair
if there is something such as smoking damaging it -the cause of the problem must be removed or it will only worsen
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No, sure wish it did.
When I was 18 years old, I had a severe asthma attack that tore a tiny opening in my left lung (I can never remember the medical term for this). Despite all the usual medical procedures available to alleviate this painful and terrifying event, nothing helped until they put a respirator in me for 72 hours and I stabilized. Slowly, the torn or ruptured lung tissue healed itself but I remained inflated like a balloon for about 2 1/2 weeks from all the inhaled breaths that seeped out into my tissues.
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