COPD is short for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. It is a disease that includes two disease in one, emphysema and chronic bronchitis. These two diseases together create COPD which makes it very hard to breathe because your airways are becoming blocked by swelling and/or mucus that it getting build up in the body.
Symptoms include tightness in the chest, wheezing, shortness of breath and a cough that seems to linger longer than normal
Treatments for COPD are only ways to manage the disease not as a cure. These treatments include bronchodilators, and steroids.