Asthma is caused by the bronchial tubes constricting
(closing) and also by mucus building up and blocking out air
passages. The effects of asthma can be relatively mild or they
can be very dangerous. There are actually four major effects
to asthma. These four effects are coughing, wheezing, chest
tightness, and shortness of breath.
Asthma occurs when the main air passages of your lungs, the
bronchial tubes, become inflamed. This airway narrowing causes
symptoms such as wheezing , shortness of breath , chest tightness,
and coughing , which respond to bronchodilators. The inflammation
(IN-fla-MAY-shun) makes the airways very sensitive, and they
tend to react strongly to things that you are allergic to or
find irritating. Asthma cannot be cured, but most people with
asthma can control it so that they have few and infrequent
symptoms and can live active lives.
The number of people being diagnosed with asthma is steadily
increasing. This condition is quite bad because there is no
idea when a trigger can cause an attack to happen. When you
experience your first asthma attack, you might start to panic,
or be considerably frightened thinking you were going to die.
This is especially scary when whatever you do you cannot catch
your breath.
Asthma is a chronic respiratory disease wherein an inflammation
in the breathing passage occurs, blocking the air going to
the lungs. A person suffering from asthma experiences sudden
attacks, causing problems in breathing, which is the body’s
response to allergens.
To illustrate in simple terms, asthma causes the tiny openings
on the inside of our lungs to become narrower. As the openings
become narrower, we find it more difficult to breathe.
Asthma is a chronic lung disorder caused when
the airways react to certain allergens or stimuli. If it isn't
treated and managed effectively, it can ultimately become a
life-threatening disease.People can develop asthma during adulthood,
even if they've never had any problems earlier in life - even
during middle
age or even older. This is known as Adult Onset Asthma.
Each Year, more than 5,500 asthma-related
deaths occur in the United States and about 500,000 Americans
are hospitalized because of asthma. If an asthma attack is
left untreated, at the very least, it may lengthen the amount
of time an asthmatic person feels miserable. At the very worst,
it progresses to a severe asthma attack. |