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Respiratory distress syndrome, adult
DESCRIPTION Adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), also called acute respiratory distress syndrome, is a type of lung (pulmonary) failure that may result from any disease that causes large amounts of fluid to collect in the lungs. ARDS is not itself a specific disease, but a syndrome, a group of symptoms and signs that make up one of the most important forms of lung or respiratory failure. It can develop quite suddenly in persons whose lungs have been perfectly normal. Very often ARDS is a true medical emergency. The basic fault is a breakdown of the barrier, or membrane, that normally keeps fluid from leaking out of the small blood vessels of the lung into the breathing sacs (the alveoli).
HERBS OF CHOICE Herbs are often used in combinations when combating an illness. Some of the most frequently used herbs are listed below. These nine herbs were picked up from different herbal combinations and are not meant to form a recipe. Our reference code for the different combinations of herbs used for this condition is JAD. This listing is not meant to diagnose, only to inform. This is of course not a complete list and is not meant to be used in the place of a doctor's advice. Click the image of each herb for a brief introduction in terms of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
CLINICAL SUCCESS IN CHINA Chinese herbal doctors have reported some successful applications of these herbal combinations. During observation on 41 patients receiving treatment with herbal remedy in addition to conventional therapy with chemical medicines, 39 cases were judged as healing (full recovery and symptom free), 1 case other significant improvement. Physicians judged the clinical efficacy to be good or excellent in 97.6%. Check the table below for details.
Cases
Healing
Improvement
Total
cases
%
41
39
1
40

97. 6
In other comparative study on 112 patients random divided into two groups:
  • Herb-treated group: receiving treatment with herbal remedy in addition to conventional therapy with chemical medicines
  • Control group: receiving conventional treatment with chemical medicines
the therapeutic effect in the herb-treated group was much better than that in the control group (P<0.05) as a result. Check the table below for details.
Cases
Healing
cases
%
Herb-treated group
moderate
60
51
85. 0
serious
13
9
69. 2
Control group
moderate
20
13
65. 0
serious
19
0
0
HERBAL REMEDY BEST FOR YOU The most powerful feature of Traditional Chinese Medicine is that it allows you to easily combine multiple ingredients to form a recipe to suit the specific need of individual. The list below are to give you an idea of why you can get the herbal remedy best for you from here with us.

Authoritative Oriented Recipes: All these well chosen herbal combinations source from experienced and authoritative experts, and have been most commonly recognized by the practitioners in this field. When you choose a herbal remedy there are two important things among your concerns: a good recipe and a correct way to cook it. A good recipe is half the good results.

Custom-made with Unique Technology: When you order a herbal remedy at this website you can figure out your symptoms by using our online questionnaire system. In this way a basic herbal recipe could be customized and optimized by adding or removing some herbs to address the individual symptoms exactly. Chinese herbs should not be used in form of standard industrial products manufactured in bulk to cope with all body issues. Only custom-made is the traditional and professional way to use Chinese herbs. All the herbal remedies available at this website are purposed to be custom-made on each single order base. With our unique technology called Low-temperature Concentration the active ingredients of herbs could be survival as much as possible while being concentrated. Eevery 8 ml of the extracts, as one dose, might equal to about 50 grams of raw herbs.
Safe and Side Effect Free: All these herbs have been being used in China for thousands of years, and have been proven to be safe. In fact most Chinese herbs are tonics without side effects. What important is that experienced practitioners should know how to use herbs to avoid possible side effects.
Easy-to-Take Dosage Form: You do NOT need to cook these herbs at all. We get everything ready for you. The herbal remedy comes with the preparation in an easy-to-take dosage form, typically an oral dosage form namely Liquid Herbal Extracts created on a single order base. If necessary other dosage forms, such as pills, capsules, tablets, powder, tea bag, agar gel, rinse, lotion, spray, tincture, liniment, ointment, suppositories, etc., might be used depending on how to use the herbs correctly. And herbal remedy kit, consisting of two different herbal formulae typically one for oral administration and another for external use, is often used for the skin conditions.
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Another name for ARDS is shock lung. Its formal name is misleading, because children, as well as adults, may be affected. In the lungs the smallest blood vessels, or capillaries, make contact with the alveoli, tiny air sacs at the tips of the smallest breathing tubes (the bronchi). This is the all-important site where oxygen passes from air that is inhaled to the blood, which carries it to all parts of the body. Any form of lung injury that damages this point of contact, called the alveolo-capillary junction, will allow blood and tissue fluid to leak into the alveoli, eventually filling them so that air cannot enter. The result is the type of breathing distress called ARDS. ARDS is one of the major causes of excess fluid in the lungs, the other being heart failure.
Along with fluid there is a marked increase in inflamed cells in the lungs. There also is debris left over from damaged lung cells, and fibrin, a semi-solid material derived from blood in the tissues. Typically these materials join together with large molecules in the blood (proteins), to form hyaline membranes. (These membranes are very prominent in premature infants who develop respiratory distress syndrome; it is often called hyaline membrane disease.) If ARDS is very severe or lasts a long time, the lungs do not heal, but rather become scarred, a process known as fibrosis. The lack of a normal amount of oxygen causes the blood vessels of the lung to become narrower, and in time they, too, may become scarred and filled with clotted blood. The lungs as a whole become very "stiff," and it becomes much harder for the patient to breathe.

Recent studies have revealed a number of mediators are involved in the initiation and perpetuation of ARDS
  • Cytokines (tumor necrosis factor, interleukin 1, interleukin 6)
  • Complement activation
  • Coagulation activation
  • Platelet - activating factor
  • Oxygen radicals
  • Lipoxygenase pathways (Leukotrienes C4, D4 and E4)
  • Neutrophil proteases
  • Nitric oxide - may be deleterious or advantageous
  • Endotoxin
  • Cyclooxygenase pathway products (thromboxane A2, prostacyclin)
All of the following causes can initiate a systemic inflammatory response with activation of the previous mediators
  • Aspiration
  • Pulmonary and systemic infections (bacterial, fungal, viral and protozoan)
  • Sepsis (gram negative, gram positive, fungi, tuberculous, Pneumocystis pneumonia)
  • Pulmonary contusion
  • Near-drowning
  • Multiple fractures, especially long bones (fat embolism)
  • Multiple transfusions
  • Pancreatitis, severe
  • Head injury
  • Inhalation of toxic gases (oxygen, smoke, NH3, chlorine, plastics, phosgene, cadmium)
  • Burns
  • Shock (hemorrhage, cardiogenic, septic, anaphylactic)
  • Eclampsia
  • Carcinomatosis
  • Leukoagglutinin reaction
  • Air or amniotic fluid emboli
SYNONYMS
  • Non-cardiogenic pulmonary edema
  • Increased-permeability pulmonary edema
  • Stiff lung
  • Shock lung
  • Wet lung
  • Acute respiratory distress syndrome
SYMPTOMS
  • Shortness of breath
  • Labored, rapid breathing
  • Low blood pressure or shock (low blood pressure accompanied by organ failure)
  • Often, persons affected by ARDS are so sick, they are unable to complain of symptoms
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