First, what is Asthma? Asthma is a chronic long-term respiratory condition that causes spasms in the bronchi of the lungs causing difficulty breathing. This occurs when a person’s airways become inflamed, narrow, and swell, that produce more mucous and makes it harder to breathe. Asthma causes wheezing, chest tightening, shortness of breath, and coughing. There’s no certain age limit that get asthma, but it usually happens during childhood and continue to stay with you throughout life. There isn’t an exact known cause for asthma researchers think that it’s genetic and environmental that happens early in life. Some factors of asthma includes: tendency to inherit or develop allergies called atopy, parents who have it, respiratory infections during
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Some of these include the measure of airflow such as spirometry test, peak flow, and measures of reversibility bronchodilators, which is all used in clinical practice. Diagnosing asthma is different in every person such as those 5 years and older the doctor can check for levels of nitric oxide using the FeNO test. Children under 5 the treatment should be based on professional judgement until they become older to be able to have clinical tests done. There’s a sequence for testing which is: spirometry, BDR if spirometry is positive, FeNO if the BDR is negative. Spirometry tests measures how a person inhale and exhale volumes of air of time. This type of testing should only be carried out by highly trained staff who performs the tests correctly well as the quality of the results. Other additional tests that diagnose asthma is: methacholine challenge: asthma trigger that when inhaled can constrict your airways; nitric oxide: measures the amount of gas you have in your breath; imaging tests: scan your nose & lung cavities; allergy testing: can identify allergies to pets, mold, dust, and pollen; Sputum eosinophilis: looks for white blood cells. Asthma can be classified based on severity by asking questions how often you have attacks and how bad are they. Determining how severe your asthma is can help the doctor consider the best treatment. Asthma is classified into four categories: …show more content…
Medical treatments plays a role in keeping asthma under control. Asthma is usually chronic, it can also go into long periods of remission. The long-term outlook basically depends on the severity: in mild to moderate cases asthma can improve over time; adults may experience improvements based on the obstruction of the lungs; about 10% changes in the structure of the wall of the airways leading to irreversible problems in the lungs. Lung function usually decrease faster in people with asthma. If asthma is not controlled it can interfere with school or work and also other everyday
Some of these include the measure of airflow such as spirometry test, peak flow, and measures of reversibility bronchodilators, which is all used in clinical practice. Diagnosing asthma is different in every person such as those 5 years and older the doctor can check for levels of nitric oxide using the FeNO test. Children under 5 the treatment should be based on professional judgement until they become older to be able to have clinical tests done. There’s a sequence for testing which is: spirometry, BDR if spirometry is positive, FeNO if the BDR is negative. Spirometry tests measures how a person inhale and exhale volumes of air of time. This type of testing should only be carried out by highly trained staff who performs the tests correctly well as the quality of the results. Other additional tests that diagnose asthma is: methacholine challenge: asthma trigger that when inhaled can constrict your airways; nitric oxide: measures the amount of gas you have in your breath; imaging tests: scan your nose & lung cavities; allergy testing: can identify allergies to pets, mold, dust, and pollen; Sputum eosinophilis: looks for white blood cells. Asthma can be classified based on severity by asking questions how often you have attacks and how bad are they. Determining how severe your asthma is can help the doctor consider the best treatment. Asthma is classified into four categories: …show more content…
Medical treatments plays a role in keeping asthma under control. Asthma is usually chronic, it can also go into long periods of remission. The long-term outlook basically depends on the severity: in mild to moderate cases asthma can improve over time; adults may experience improvements based on the obstruction of the lungs; about 10% changes in the structure of the wall of the airways leading to irreversible problems in the lungs. Lung function usually decrease faster in people with asthma. If asthma is not controlled it can interfere with school or work and also other everyday