A. Asthma is a disease of the lungs. You can have a mild or serious form of asthma. It cannot be cured, but people with asthma live healthy lives using medication to control their asthma. People with asthma may have a bad cough, wheezing, and trouble breathing. In an asthma attack, t...
Asthma is a chronic condition that affects the lungs and often leads to symptoms of wheezing, coughing, breathlessness and a tight chest. Over five million people in the UK live with asthma, with the condition being slightly more common in children than in adults. Around 4% of people with t...
These inhalers contain drugs called bronchodilators, which relax the muscles in your lungs and let more air in, helping you to breathe more easily. Ventolin is a well-known brand of reliever inhaler. Salbutamol inhalers contain the same generic medication as Ventolin and are usually cheaper as...
Asthma is a very common long-term condition in which small tubes in the lungs (bronchi) become inflamed and sensitive. When these tubes come into contact with certain triggers that irritate them, the airways narrow and the muscles in the lungs tighten. The lungs also produce more mucus, and...
type I hypersensitivity and type IV hypersensitivity, are thought to contribute to the major structural and physiologic changes associated with asthma, including airway hyperresponsiveness, goblet cell metaplasia with mucous hypersecretion, subepithelial airway fibrosis, and recruitment to the lungs of diverse...
decrease in the efficiency of lungs during sleep; horizontal position of the body; disturbance of circadian rhythm and so on. Major symptoms: strong cough; difficult breathing; wheezing breath. Heart asthma Cardiac asthma is an asthma attack and shortneβ of breath that occurs in a person due ...
Hospitals in Manchester and Glasgow in the UK have started treating patients with a pioneering new non-drug treatment for asthma that uses radio waves to burn away muscle tissue blocking the airways in the lungs. Patients with asthma typically have thicker smooth muscle in the walls of airways ...
A test to measure the flow of air in and out of yourlungs, calledspirometryor a pulmonary function test, may be performed. This test is used to define the diagnosis of asthma. This test may involve giving an inhaled medicine called abronchodilatorto relax or dilate the airways. Alternatively...
The inflammation of the small tubes which is known as the bronchi carries the air in and out of the lungs cause asthma. People will have asthma if they have a genetic history of asthma; the environmental factors are the vital role of developing asthma. (Nhs.uk, 2016a) When breathing a ...
Your doctor will also prescribe you with asthma medication. Normally this comes in an inhaler. With an inhaler, the asthma medicine goes straight to the lungs and very little of it ends up in other places in your body. Each inhaler is different though, so ask your doctor how to use it....