My Asthma Research Papers

Asthma is a chronic lung disease that causes a person’s air pathways to be

inflamed. It also causes a person’s air pathways to be narrower. The cause of

asthma has not been determined, but there are some risk factors that can contribute

to the reason why someone has this lung disease. The risk factors are parents who

have asthma, a tendency to develop allergies, throughout childhood getting different

respiratory infections, and exposure to air borne allergies throughout childhood. It

also has an environmental risk factor, which is smoking. The risk factors mentioned

cannot be prevented except for the environmental factor of smoking. Asthma is

something that has affected me throughout my life because at times it has limited

what I can do in
The particular medicines that I take for my asthma are albuterol,

asmanex, and singular. I am also given prednisone, but only when I go into an asthma

attack. Recently doctors have found research that suggest other ways to treat asthma; and

that is through use of calcilytics. Calcilytics help people with osteoporosis, but it has been

found that calcilytics also help reverse the narrowing of the airways.

Asthma disrupts the body’s ability to function by causing a person’s airways to

narrow, which leads to difficulty breathing. In essence, asthma disrupts homeostasis, an

internal balance that allows to body to function properly. The disruption of homeostasis

occurs in the respiratory system. A normal person’s air pathways are wider and not

inflamed, which makes it easier for them to breathe and live life. For asthmatics the

narrowing of their air pathway not only makes it hard to breathe, but also carry on with

their normal activities. Ultimately, a person with asthma is like a normal person with

bronchitis. Both cause a narrow airway path for breathing and constrict the air that gets in

and out. They both affect the functioning of people and cause an interruption