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How to apply for disability for asthma?

Asthma belongs to chronic diseases of a severe form affecting the broncho-pulmonary system. The result of asthma there is a significant narrowing of the Airways. The patient has a characteristic coughafter exercise shortness of breath occurs. The disease may be accompanied by prolonged attacks of breathlessness. But the presence of this diagnosis itself is not grounds for getting a person of disability. In addition, you must collect and provide a number of documents.


What documents are required?

You will need:

  • the passport of the citizen of the Russian Federation or the document replacing it;
  • documents confirming the condition.
  • a direction on mediko-social examination;
  • the policy of obligatory medical insurance

Manual

  1. Identify those changes in your health that have occurred since the diagnosis. Not the disease itself, and its consequences play an important role in the definition of disability. Doctors pay special attention to such factors as long duration and recurrent attacks of breathlessness, inflammation in the lungs, chronic character. Dependence on hormone drugs, heart or lung failure is also serious complications of bronchial asthma, which can be the basis for obtaining disability.

  2. Usually, in asthma there are no sharp jumps in the deterioration of the body, the disease progresses slowly. Thanks to modern medicine, asthma attacks permanently cropped, and the patient for a long time, has no complaints. Since the disease is not one year, before it becomes impossible to be active still lifestyle and work as before. The patient must consists on the account in his clinic, occasionally passing an examination in the hospital.

  3. If you decide to apply for disability, start by talking with your doctor. He may offer a different treatment regimen or recommend to consult with experts from other fields of medicine. Even if, in the opinion of the physician, there is no reason to determine at least the third group of disability, he cannot refuse to issue a direction on mediko-social examination.

  4. For passing the medical Board will get a pulmonologist ortherapist special form, which includes the results of the medical examination. The necessary minimum includes culture and sputum, urine analysis, ECG, spirography, chest x-ray, General and biochemical blood tests, and blood sugar. Everyone who passes the Commission is required to examine cardiologist, surgeon, neurologist. Additional studies may be prescribed for people with severe form of the disease. So, the conclusion on the work of the adrenal glands is a must for those who for a long time takes a medication containing hormones.

  5. After the test results and a medical examination is necessary to refer back to the therapist. He makes the necessary entries in the map of the patient, and then directs to the ITU. If between the doctor and patient disagree, the reason for the inspection will indicate "at the request of the patient".

  6. A medical examination takes place in Bureau mediko-social examination where you must pre-register. At the reception you should bring your passport, a direction to the Commission and help with clinics, insurance.

  7. After studying the information presented, the ITU experts will ask a number of questions about quality of life, peculiarities of labour, on health, and then either assigns a disability group, or accept a negative decision. For contest results, you must contact the Main office of the region, the next instance is the court.

Disability in bronchial asthma

In determining the disability group focus on General health, on the ability of a person to take care of themselves on the ability to work and interact with other members of society.

Group 3. The medium degree of the disease is group 3, which suggests limitations in the work. This can be a shortened working day or contraindications to work in dusty, poorly ventilated rooms.

Group 2. If lung function has an average degree, given 2 group. Indications are also hormonal disorders, dysfunction of the endocrine system, in kidney and pancreas. Work is possible either remotely or in the organization of the special conditions.

1 group. In the presence of irreversible changes in the bodycharacteristic of severe illness, 1 group.