COPD Solution: A Proven 10-Week Program for Living and Breathing Better with Chronic Lung Disease

by Dawn Lesley Fielding

When you can't breathe, nothing else matters. If you are one of the 15 million Americans diagnosed with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), you know what it's like to struggle to breathe. You know what it's like to sacrifice your favorite activities to a chronic illness that changes everything from your work life to how you take your meals. But there is help -- and hope. Respiratory Therapist Dawn Lesley Fielding shares the program she has used in her own practice -- with an astonishing 100% success rate-offering techniques and tools to make breathing easier and improve your overall health. This practical, accessible, step-by-step guide explains... what COPD is and how it affects your breathing the most up-to-date medication and treatment options how to track symptoms and medications essential breathing techniques to improve oxygen intake strategies for healthy nutrition and gentle exercise what to eat and what to avoid, with lists of key COPD foods With stories from others with this condition, easy charts for managing everything from your medications to your symptoms, as well as hands-on tips for you and your loved ones, The COPD Solution is your guide to reclaiming your life and living fully with COPD.

334 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 23, 2015

Reviews

[Victoria]

The information in this book is invaluable for anyone with COPD, or anyone assisting a family member who has COPD. The first 70 pages cover what COPD is, how it's diagnosed, and what it's like to have this chronic lung disease. The balance of the book covers the 10 steps program. Each step thoughtfully and informatively delves into crucial areas including: accepting the diagnosis, oxygen therapy, energy conservation, medication, pulmonary rehab, food and diet, exercise, and staying socially engaged.
Thank you to the author for providing a valuable resource to COPD patients and the loved ones who want to understand what they are experiencing and want to assist them.

[~☆~Autumn]

This is very helpful. It has an amazing breathing exercise which can sure get my oxygen level up. It is called "pursed lip" breathing and is used when you breath out. I highly recommend using it.

I use this breathing method constantly now so I had to add another star!

[Bette Taylor]

I have severe cold two bouts of pneumonia saw my copd jump from stage two to stage four I have had copd for 20 years follow everything he advises a very good book