Let's Talk About Asthma

Outline

Asthma is a well-known disease that has many causes. With the illness of asthma life can sometimes feel suffocating and uneasy.

Asthma- is a chronic disease that affects your airways.

Causes of asthma: allergens, irritants, or other symptoms can cause asthma.

Living with asthma is an uneasy task.

Now hopefully you all know a little more about asthma and the causes thereof. Do understand that although asthma is a common disease it can be life threatening.

Lets Talk About Asthma

Most people feel that they possess what it takes to take another persons breath away but, I know what can truly take your breath away. Asthma has the power to do just that; cause a person to feel like they've lost their breath. Imagine lying down on a bed watching your favorite TV show. You're enjoying it and laughing a lot while all of a sudden your chest begins to tighten and you start wheezing. This scenario is all too familiar of a daily life of someone who has asthma. With a number of different causes, living with asthma is somewhat suffocating. In the amount of time that it takes for an asthma victim to lose consciousness, you will learn what this disease is, what causes it, what it is like to live with asthma.

Asthma is a chronic disease that affects your airways. While normal airways allow for air to be carried freely to and from the lungs, with asthma this is not the case. The walls inside of your airways are swollen or inflamed preventing air to pass to and from your lungs. Once there is an irritation, breathing becomes difficult which is commonly known as an asthma attack or episode. These irritations are noticed when the individual starts wheezing, coughing, and feeling their chest tightening. Wheezing is described as a whistling, or squeaky sound while breathing. Chest tightening may feel as though someone is sitting on, or squeezing your chest. People who don't have asthma

may know how to whistle or have been squeezed tightly before, yet a steady occurrence of these actions is quite different.

There has not been a discovery of what exactly causes a person with asthma to have inflamed airways. Some believe if a family member has asthma, it's likely to be developed. A variety of things within our environment can cause an individual to receive an asthma attack or simply just stir up one's symptoms. The variety of causes can be placed into three different categories such as: allergens, irritants, or other. Some of the allergens that can cause an asthma attack are as follows: pollen, dust mites, and even mold. A few of the irritants causing asthma episodes consist of air pollution, or changes in the weather, cigarette smoke, and even emotional expressions such as crying or laughing hard. Other things that may begin an attack or episode are infections, special work chemicals, or medicines like aspirin. Although exercise is known to be good for the body, it is