year old boy who has had a history of eczema and asthma since early childhood. According to Guibas et al (2012) asthma is the most common chronic respiratory disease of childhood: its prevalence has been rising in the western world for the last three decades. In Scotland‚ 368‚000 people (1 in 14) are currently receiving treatment for asthma. This includes 72‚000 children and 296‚000 adults. There are 5.4 million people living with asthma in the UK and around 1 million of these are children
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POLLUTION The word‚ ’pollution’ means to make dirty. Pollution causes imbalance in the environment. Environmental pollution is a serious problem. Nearly 35 percent of India’s total land area is subject to serious environmental pollution. Industrialization has led to urbanization‚ which has added to the pollution problem. Air pollution is the most dangerous form of pollution. land and water pollution have worsened the situation. Pollution causes several types of harmful disease so we must control
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Pollution – Thank God man cannot fly and lay waste In Air and Land. Pollution is probably the most serious issue facing the world today.Yet we keep on turning a blind eye to it‚believing that it won’t affect us.Pollution of various element sof out ecosystem like air‚water‚ soil and sound has caused serious damage already.In Man’s quest for a better life and his mad rush for material possessions has forgot ‚ or rather chose to ignore the impact of his deeds on the environment.Quite naturally‚
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Pollution Human beings have always caused some environmental pollution. Since prehistoric times‚ people have created waste. Like garbage today‚ this waste was either burned‚ tossed into waterways‚ buried‚ or dumped aboveground. However‚ the waste of early peoples was mostly food scraps and other substances that broke down easily by natural decay processes. Prehistoric populations were also much smaller and were spread out over large areas. As a result‚ pollution was less concentrated and caused
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Wendy‚ I think your description of the pathophysiology of asthma was right on point. Due to the release of the mediators causing an increase in blood flow and vasoconstriction‚ which is why his BP increased and experiencing tachycardia. With bronchoconstriction‚ causing him to used excessive muscle to breathing‚ leading him to have tachypnea of 42 with shallow breathing. Since the patient is experiencing exacerbating‚ it is important to act quickly and manage it by early treatment and education
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research done on asthma and genetics and this research is ongoing. Some research on this is pointing at a synergistic nature within the pathophysiology of asthma. “Polymorphisms in the gene that encodes platelet-activating factor hydrolase‚ an intrinsic neutralizing agent of platelet-activating factor in most humans‚ may play a role in susceptibility to asthma and asthma severity” (Morris & Pearson‚ 2016). There has been evidence which has suggested that the prevalence of asthma is reduced in association
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In the article‚ The Differences Between COPD and Asthma by Linda Ruiz‚ it is discussed that many patients believe the symptoms they experience related to asthma‚ when in fact‚ it is actually COPD. Being able to determine the difference between asthma and COPD is a factor in effect treatment for the two diseases. Although‚ it is extremely difficult to distinguish asthma and COPD‚ there are some characteristic that establish a difference between the two. COPD consists of two lung diseases‚ chronic
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and chest tightness caused by asthma are relieved by bronchodilator inhalers. It used for fast relieve the blockage airway of breath due to asthma. They can be used before people exercise. Asthma Nebulizer this a machine used to anyone who have difficult to breath and they can not use small inhalers. It changes the medicine from liquid to mist to make inhaler in to lungs. It`s fast than an inhaler. Asthma inhaler is the most used one and easiest to use to relieve asthma. There are different types available
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Chronic Disease‚ Asthma Good morning to our beloved lecturer and my fellow classmate. In our advanced world nowadays‚ we have discovered about lots kinds of diseases. Among those diseases that have been discovered is asthma. Generally‚ we knew that asthma is a lung-related disease and it does make breathing become difficult. But did you know that asthma is being thought to be caused by combination of genetic and environmental factors? Did you know that across this entire world the number of people
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PRODUCTIONS ON AIR POLLUTION Lu Li‚ Zhaowei Liu ECON508: Applied econometrics May 10‚ 2013 Abstract In China‚ many environmental problems have been ignored when it mainly focused on a higher pace of economic growth for a long time. In this paper‚ we aim at finding the relationship between air pollutions and its potential contributor—industrial development. And we are also interested in finding out which department in industry contributes most to air pollution
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