1. Popcorn Lungs
By Rachel B 8B

2. What is popcorn lungs?
Popcorn lungs is a form of bronchitis obliterans, a severe objective lung disease, causing small airways in your lungs, damaging and affecting your lungs.

3. What causes it?
- There is a chemical in microwavable popcorn called diacetyl that gives it its buttery flavour, but from from breathing in the steam anyone could get popcorn lungs
-people who vape could also get popcorn lungs from vaping, since the vapour droplets go in your lungs and cause airways to form
-Anyone could also get in from breathing in dust particles or chemical fumes

4. Symptoms -Wheezing (not related to another health condition)
-Dry cough
-Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, especially during physical activity
-Unexplained exhaustion
-Persistent skin, eye, mouth, or nose irritation, if caused by a chemical
-Rapid breathing

5. Treatment
-If you go to the doctor your doctor will prescribe you with medication to ease the inflammation of your lungs, but if you wait too long to begin your treatment it will get worse and can possibly be fatal
-You can also get medication to prevent coughing and maybe oxygen if breathing becomes difficult
-Drugs that slow down your immune system can protect your bronchioles from further damage
-wearing a mask over your mouth can prevent you from breathing in dirt particles and causing additional destruction

6. What body body system it affects
Even though popcorn lungs only affects one body system, being the respiratory system, it still has a big impact on those who have popcorn lungs.

7. Sources Bronchiolitis obliterans - Wikipedia