Asthma

Asthma should remain a National Health Priority The National Health Priority Areas (NHPA) is an initiative of the Department of Health to outline and address the health conditions and injuries that create burden for the Australian health system (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) 2017). One of the priority areas is asthma, a chronic condition of the respiratory system with no cure (AIHW 2017). Asthma affects one in nine Australians, making it a large burden on the health system,…

Your teacher runs to the student and takes them out of the room. You can hear the student coughing, wheezing, and struggling to breath as they walk down the hall. You and your fellow classmates have just witnessed a severe asthma flare up. I will be talking more about Asthma and what causes these attacks. To understand what just happened to the student, you must…

are many well-known stigmas that surround life-altering diseases such as cancer, as well as HIV. However, there are many stereotypes that surround conditions such as allergies or asthma, which are taken less seriously. I will address the latter, in a somewhat serious, yet comically story about how I found out I had asthma that is both exercise and allergen induce. It's about December of 2014 and I have come down with some sort of nasal sickness that consists a runny nose, constricted nasal…

population who have asthma. A common reason for patients, especially pediatric patients, to visit the emergency department are asthma exacerbations and nearly 500,000 of these patients require ICU admission per year (Miller et al., 2015). Asthma exacerbations require quick and vigilant treatment interventions from nurses and the health care team. The first line of treatment consist of administering a bronchodilator and systemic corticosteroids as based on evidenced-based asthma guidelines. This…

adult who has been diagnosed with asthma, it is conducted in a health center conference room. This presentation aims at educating clients on the importance of preventing incidences of acute asthma and the effective management of acute asthma. The Group Lesson Plan starts by explaining the statistics of an asthma attack. This is used to give clients a clear understanding the significant fraction association with the hospitalisation and morbidity rates in asthma. As a powerful piece of evidence,…

Invisible COE A new cure has been invented, on March 1 2050, the physiologist Dr. Campbell invented a cure for Asthma. Well at least everyone thought it was for Asthma. Which really was a cure for everything. So Dr. Campbell always wanted to be famous for finding a cure. Also his son Mason had Asthma and really loved playing basketball. The News station of New Bailey interviewed Mrs. Campbell “Mason always would come home from basketball practice then pass out and have to be rushed to the…

and grandfather suffer the symptoms of asthma. They are both allergic to cats, both have severe allergies, and both use an inhaler. Thankfully, I have been fortunate and have never been diagnosed with asthma. According to the American Lung Association (2017), having a parent with asthma makes me three to six times more likely to develop asthma over the course of my life. In a recent study, researchers found that children who have been diagnosed with asthma were twice as likely to have at…

Asthma is a respiratory condition when a person's airways swell and become narrow. It has been around since history has been recorded. "Sometimes asthma is called bronchial asthma or reactive airway disease" (webmd.com.) Asthma can be caused by smoking and perhaps, other environmental reasons, but there is no solid reason for asthma. Asthma attacks can be caused by several things. Cold air, physical activities, air pollutants and pollen are all reasons for which asthma attacks are attributed to.…

something (stimuli) you may be allergic to. However, I wanted to seek other conditions that are far less appreciated or understood, such as asthma.…

the fact that, asthma is the most common and costly chronic disease of children in the United States. This topic in particular is one that can be improved greatly with proper public education and community awareness. Asthma is a chronic lung disease that inflames and narrows the airways, which can occur at any age, but most often starts during childhood (“What Is Asthma? – NAHLBI, NIH”). In the article, The asthma prediction rule to decrease hospitalizations for children with asthma, it is…