Asthma Medicine And Effects On Pregnancy

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What asthma medicines are safe to use during pregnancy? If you have asthma and are considering becoming pregnant, shouldn’t you know the response?

Asthma is a chronic lung condition that is characterized by breathing difficulties.  Persons with asthma have extra sensitive and/or hyper-responsive airways. Normally during an asthma attack, the airways become irritated and react by constricting, and thus narrowing, causing increased resistance to airflow, and obstructing the flow of air to and from the lungs. Read more . . .

Asthma As Related To Acid Reflux

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Asthma is a chronic lung condition that is characterized by difficulties of breathing.  People who suffer from asthma have air passages that are hyper-responsive or extra sensitive.  In the event of an asthma attack, the airways become irritated and react by constricting and narrowing, causing increased resistance to airflow, and obstruction of the flow of air through the air passages to and from the lungs. Read more . . .

Identification of Asthma

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Asthma (pronounced AZ-muh) is described in the book “Essential Allergy”, by Mygind, Dahl, Pedersen, and Thestrup-Pedersen as “A lung disease characterised by: 1. variable and reversible airway obstruction; 2. airway inflammation; and 3. bronchial hyper-responsiveness. Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease that makes bronchial passages that make up one’s airways specifically sensitive to irritants. It is primarily characterized by  difficulties of breathing. Asthma is a highly-ranked chronic health condition for adults in a majority of western nations. It is also the leading chronic illness causing problems to children. Asthma cannot be treated. However, most patients can control it so that they suffer only infrequent and minimal  symptoms and they can live an active life. Read more . . .

Symptoms Of Asthma

The Allergy Pathway

Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease that makes bronchial tubes predominantly sensitive to irritants. This is characterized by difficulties of breathing.

The warning signs of asthma include:

* Shortness of breath.    Asthma patients often say they feel as though they can’t catch their breath,  they feel breathless or out of breath.  They feel like they can’t get enough air into or out of their lungs. Read more . . .

Vocal Cord Dysfunction And Asthma

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Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease that makes air passages (bronchial tubes) specifically irritant-sensitive. It is characterized by difficulties of breathing. Asthma is a highly ranked chronic health condition in adults in many western countries. It is also the leading chronic disease in children. Read more . . .