Asthma: The Causes and Symptoms Asthma is a disorder of the respiratory system in which the passages of the lung periodically narrow‚ causing coughing‚ wheezing‚ and shortness of breath. When Henry was little he was diagnosed with asthma. Now carries an inhaler with him to help keep him from having asthma attacks. Many people experience asthma symptoms everyday. Asthma can be controlled by avoiding triggers such as dust or smoke. There are three symptoms of asthma. The first
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Living With Asthma and COPD Jaclyn Carroll University of Phoenix Living With Asthma and COPD There are many things to take into consideration when diagnosing and treating asthma and COPD. They have many characteristics that can confuse one for the other and lead to the misdiagnosis and treatments that are associated with each respiratory disease. If one has never been faced with the reality of living with
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What Is Asthma? Asthma is a disease that affects your lungs. It is one of the most common long-term diseases of children‚ but adults have asthma‚ too. Asthma causes repeated episodes of wheezing‚ breathlessness‚ chest tightness‚ and nighttime or early morning coughing. If you have asthma‚ you have it all the time‚ but you will have asthma attacks only when something bothers your lungs. In most cases‚ we don’t know what causes asthma‚ and we don’t know how to cure it. We know that if someone in
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with Running head: CHILDREN WITH ASTHMA Children with Asthma Adell Bell Community College of Baltimore Country Children with Asthma According to the center for Disease control and preventing (CDC). Approximately 6.8 million children have been diagnosed with asthma. Asthma is one of the most common‚ serious‚ chronic diseases among children‚ accounting for 13 million absences from school each year. It is the most common chronic childhood illness. Asthma is a recurring inflammatory lung
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com “Asthma makes breathing difficult for more than 34 million Americans.” Asthma is a non-curable Respiratory disorder in which the passage way that air flowing in and out of the lungs narrows‚ this causes wheezing‚ shortness of breath‚ and coughing. This narrowing of the wind pipe is a temporary problem is reversible. In some severe cases of asthma death may be a result. Asthma is simply an inflammation of the airway. Other terms associated with asthma are Bronchial asthma and Cardiac asthma. Cardiac
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available. The range of chronic pulmonary diseases associated with ammonia inhalation injury is reviewed‚ and suggestions for appropriate diagnostic evaluation are made. 0 1996 Wilev-Liss‚ Inc. KEY WORDS: ammonia‚ lung diseases‚ occupational diseases‚ asthma INTRODUCTION Overexposure to ammonia in the occupational setting can be associated with a range of anatomic and functional abnormalities of the respiratory tract that have been sporadically reported in the medical literature [Slot‚ 1938; Caplin
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Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the airway. The narrowing of air occurs due to the inflammation and excessive mucous secretion. Asthma is know to be the commonest diseases in childhood and in young adulthood. Mr Saunders suffering from asthma encounters exacerbation‚ which commonly means asthma attack or acute asthma leading to shortness of breath‚ wheezing and many other symptoms. Exacerbation refers to decline in expiratory airflow‚ which can bring mild to life threatening conditions
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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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Asthma is a condition in which a person’s airways become inflamed‚ narrow‚ and swell‚ and make extra mucus‚ which makes it difficult to breathe. If you have asthma its very difficult breathing through your airways. They become more even swollen and the muscles around the airways can tighten when something triggers your symptoms. Common asthma triggers are allergies‚ tobacco‚ medication‚ emotional anxiety and stress‚ viral and bacterial infections. Symptoms of asthma are coughing‚ shortness of
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CHILDHOOD ASTHMA Children and Asthma Abstract This paper will discuss the impact asthma has on a child and their family. It will place emphasis on the strains asthma places on the child and their parents. The physiological aspect of asthma as well as its triggers will be reviewed‚ along with its prevalence in today’s society. I will examine how the five developmental domains of child and adolescent development pertain to asthma. Asthma will also be applied to two family theories; the Family
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