Friday, May 21, 2010

Asthma


Asthma is a (long Term) Chronic disease that Obstructs the air ways. Asthma creates wheezing (a whistling sound heard from people around the patient). Asthma Effects people of all ages but in testing found that it usually starts in people when they are young. Asthma people have inflamed air ways that make it harder for the patient to breath. Most asthma patients can not run long distances without taking puff's of an inhaler. Most times an asthma patients simtoms regulate, but when they don't something happens, (an asthma attack) Which is when the simptoms get worse and breathing gets vary hard. These are also called flairups,or exacerbations. It is vary important to treat simptoms when they first start to appear so that they do not worsen to an asthma attack.

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