Is it difficult to identify asthma?

The issue of determining the risk of inheritance with malformations of respiratory system is extremely difficult, as in some cases they may be a manifestation of monogenic inherited diseases, and sometimes – the result of adverse environmental effects. Determination of the risk degree with polygenic inherited diseases, particularly bronchial asthma , presents considerable difficulties for the matter, as the genetic predisposition and the influence of adverse factors (bad environment) also may affect the disease development. It is

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Importance of Vitamins at Asthma

Colds may aggravate the symptoms of asthma. It is important to understand the symptoms of asthma and the common cold, as well as to understand which drugs can prevent asthma attacks. What is the difference between asthma and a common cold? Asthma is associated with inflammation of the bronchioles (the lower respiratory tract). The common cold is the result of rhinovirus infection which affects the mucous membranes of the nose and throat (the upper respiratory tract).

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Asthma and Ecological Situation

In the forties of the 20th century, there were five times less patients with bronchial asthma in the world than now. What has changed in the world? The ecology. Widespread industrialization, technological progress, millions of cars and hundreds of factories today are polluting our atmosphere and our lungs. The average citizen of the metropolis inhales 48 kilograms of harmful substances per year. The air contaminated with poisonous gases and suspended particles, is a strong precipitating

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Four Ages of Asthma

Asthma can overtake a person at any age, no one is immune from it. We subdivide the features of the disease flow in the most vulnerable groups of people: infants teenagers, pregnant women and the elderly. We will also try to figure out how to deal with asthma safely and efficiency and how to improve the quality of life. What are the main age groups which deserve a special attention at asthma? Infants Unfortunately, asthma

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Asthma treatment by the sea

Asthma is a common chronic disease, which causes inflammation of the airways due to external or internal irritable factors. External factors concern physical effects: chemical and mechanical damage, weather conditions, as well as stress and physical exertion. Often, the main element of provocative acts are allergic to dust or some plants. The internal factors are the pathological changes of endocrine and immune system.

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Asthma During Pregnancy

Recently, two ar three decades ago, pregnant woman with bronchial asthma had to meet quite negative attitude which was periodically shown even by doctors. They asked unpleasant, irritating questions – “Children? Are you out of your mind”? Time passes and today the situation has considerably changed to the best. Doctors around the world agree in the general opinion – bronchial asthma doesn’t become an obex to happiness of a maternity. However this illness doesn’t lose

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Children’s Asthma: Treatment and Recommendations

Illness of the child is the real challenge for his parents. What should they do? How to help the kid? It can be difficult, but parents can’t panic, the baby notices the slightest changes of your mood. This theory is especially correct when when we talt about asthma: the illness which became the frequent phenomenon among children. Bronchial asthma is the special condition of bronchi including a hypersensibility of respiratory tracts to infections, dust, pungent

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Myths about Asthma

Myth 1. The main thing is rub through children’s age and after puberty asthma may pass off. Of course, it happens that teenagers cease to choke at the age of 14-16, but in several years asthma flashes with a new force. Asthma doesn’t disappear anywhere, this is a chronic disease. Once manifested, asthma grows and matures together with the person. And insufficient and not systematic treatment in the childhood can lead to the fact that

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Do Asthmatics have any Limitations in Activity?

Asthma is a chronic inflammatory process in the bronchi, which causes difficult breathing and provokes wheezing, cough, and sometimes suffocation. These makes daily life inconvenient. Unfortunately, this disease affects about 10% of people. But the disease can be lived with if you know what you are permitted to do in case of bronchial asthma and what is not recommended. In the beginning it is interesting to learn whether you can deal with it. Is it

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Types of Bronchial Asthma

Do you know, in what asthma types differ from each other? If you are an asthmatic, then you probably already have experienced, how terrible can asthma symptoms be such as wheezing, coughing, dyspnea, tightness in chest area. And degree of your understanding of your illness can help your doctor to determine its specific type, for example, exercise-induced asthma (asthma that exacerbates during exercise) or nocturnal asthma (asthma that violates night sleep and manifests in quite

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