Mucus

is a chronic disease involving the bronchial tubes in the lungs. When having an asthma attack, the airways in the lungs are inflamed and become swollen. The muscles surrounding the bronchial tubes also become tighten. The body then produces extra mucus and makes it more difficult to breathe. Symptoms such as wheezing, coughing, chest tightening, and shortness of breath occur when having an asthma episode. There are two main types of asthma. The first type is an allergic asthma, attacks caused by…

Cancer is the uncontrolled growth and division of certain cells of the body, which aggregate to form a clot of cells called a tumor. These tumors create hindrance in the proper functioning of the organ in which they originated. Cancers are leading causes of deaths now a days, because of the few treatment options available. Lung cancer is obviously the tumor in the lungs- the respiratory organs of the body. Cancer is a disease that can spread to other organs and interfere with the functioning of…

LSD was first synthesized by Albert Hofmann in 1938. LSD is typically either swallowed or held under the tongue, usually on a substrate such as absorbent blotter paper, a sugar cube, or gelatin. In its liquid form, it can also be administered by intramuscular or intravenous injection.The effects of the drug were not known until 1948 due to the fact that no one could explain it’s mystifying effects. It was introduced commercially in 1947 by Sandoz Laboratories under the trade-name Delysid as a…

1) Name the two types of inflammatory bowel disease and discuss the differences between the two types and their characteristics including diarrhea, rectal bleeding and areas involved? “Inflammatory bowel diseases are of two types: Regional entitis (Crohn’s disease) and Ulcerative colitis”. (Bare, Day, Paul, Smeltzer & Williams, 2010, p. 1172). Regional colitis refers to the inflammation of GI tract and most commonly affects the distal ileum and ascending colon. The inflammation begins with edema…

Infectious Diseases Infectious diseases are spread through four methods of transmission they are 1. Respiratory tract transmission 2. Fecal-Oral transmission 3. Direct contact transmission 4. Blood contact transmission Respiratory tract Infectious diseases are transmitted via the respiratory tract and they can range from a mild cold to many life threatening diseases. This is the most common method of transmission of infectious diseases in an early childhood environment. Germs pass through the…

an air polluted area, being infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and others. Symptoms of both types of these cancers include: chest discomfort or pain, coughing that does not go away or gets worse as time progresses (or coughing up mucus with blood in it), trouble breathing, wheezing, hoarseness, loss of appetite, unexplainable weight loss, feeling very tired, trouble swallowing, and swelling in the face and/or veins in the…

My study case is related to a bronchiectasis patient from Fairfax Inova Hospital. Bronchiectasis is an abnormal and permanent dilation of airways in which the bronchial walls become inflamed, the mucociliary elevator is impaired, and the mucus accumulates leading to increased susceptibility to infection. It can be classified according to morphological forms such as cylindrical bronchiectasis form where the bronchi are enlarged and cylindrical (least severe), varicose bronchiectasis form where…

CHAPTER 2.LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1. Definition The cervix is the lower part of the uterus (womb). It is sometimes called the uterine cervix. It connects the body of uterus to the vagina. The part of the cervix inside the cervix canal is called endocervix. The part on the outside is called the ectocervix. Most cervical cancers start where these two parts meet. There are two main types, squamous cell carcinoma and adenocarcinoma. Occasionally, mixed carcinomas,…

Introduction The purpose of this lab is to test our own lung function by calculating the Vital Capacity, in order to do so we had to find the Tidal Capacity, which is the total volume that is inhaled or exhaled in a single respiratory cycle at rest, Inspiratory Reserve Volume, the volume exhaled in a forced inhalation beyond inhaled Tidal Volume, and Expiratory Reserve Volume, which is the volume which can be exhaled in a forced exhalation beyond exhaled Tidal Volume. These three terms are used…

4-6 days after contact with the virus. Children and adults with chronic lung diseases such as asthma experience rapid breathing, wheezing, productive cough and trouble breathing. In infants, symptoms also include lack of appetite due to excessive mucus, dehydration, sluggishness and fussiness. Both children and adults with compromised immune systems or congenital heart diseases run a higher risk for developing life-threatening conditions such as bronchiolitis. The incubation time (from…