Izahnaya Tovsen
Human Biology Lab
February, 2020
Lab 5 Asthma
Asthma is a chronic illness that can be established as a child and in adulthood. It is the constriction of your airways through your bronchiole muscles tightening. When an asthma attack happens your lungs, trachea, and bronchiole tubes produce more mucus. So along with airway constriction, they also because gummed up the inability to breathe can cause death. Most people with asthma have day to day needs with less severe symptoms such as coughing or wheezing. Asthma attacks are usually brought on from increased heavy breathing and situations that may cause your body stress like exercise. Asthma is classified as; "mild intermittent, mild persistent, moderate persistent, severe persistent" according to Mayo Clinic.
There is no cure for asthma, only treatments. For mild intermittent or persistent asthma they will prescribe you an inhaler which is corticosteroids vapor. You inhale the vapor through a spacer or directly from the inhaler. With severe persistent asthma yo may need a medication to help keep your airways open, or to help keep mucus levels down. Someone with severe asthma or moderate would have to take medication or their inhaler each day, inhalers are also used to stop asthma attacks.
Children and adult alike have asthma according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. asthma Women are about 3% more likely to have asthma then men. While Africans Americans are about 3% more likely then white people, and 4% more likely then Hispanic Americans. Asthma usually depends on your environment. If your mother smoked while you were in the womb, to having a dirty home with lots of mold and dust. It is a respiratory disorder that is persistent and long lasting, but with proper care is not always life threatening.
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