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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…

Breathe in People breathe deeply to live others hold in to live longer. Breathe in, and out, feels normal right? Well, what’s not normal is what you may have taken in. It is well known that we all need air to keep the machine that we call our body alive. Cleaner air is essential to maintaining a healthy life, and you may not know that until you take in the problem through nose and mouth. This problem has begun to take its toll on many of our elderly, people with asthma and children; often…

The lung wall is delicate which makes it susceptible to surface tension injury. The wall is made of epithelium, which is tissue that lines the cavities and surfaces of organs in the body. When complications with infections occur regions of the lung can fill with fluid, also babies born premature can have underdeveloped lungs causing increased surface tension. These cause the lungs to remain closed, a disease called respiratory distress syndrome. The deformation of biological cells when…

Once I tested out on the mouth, I then had to cut open the body cavity by first cutting a straight line that started just cranial to the hairs on the chin of my pig and ended cranial to the upper limbs of the pig. I then used my scalpel to cut a horizontal cut from the initial incision and pulled the skin and muscle away from the internal structures that I was required to locate in the neck. The internal structures that I had to locate in the neck were the hyoid apparatus, larynx, thyroid gland,…

Gaseous exchange Breathing is the body’s way of exchanging oxygen for carbon dioxide. The lungs get oxygen through alveoli. The air is transported though the trachea and diverted though the bronchi into a lung, the bronchi extends into smaller tubes called bronchioles witch at the end of them are little air sacks (the alveoli). Oxygen is needed to get into the blood stream to allow oxygen to be supplied throughout the body in order for it to function normally. It does this by gaseous exchange.…

The number of children who currently have asthma is 6.8 million, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention website. Asthma is a chronic disease in your airways that makes breathing difficult sometimes. An asthma attack is the inflammation in the airway passages, which make the airways that carries oxygen become temporary, narrowed. People that have asthma can be especially sensitive to triggers. Often time’s airways will flare up to the simplest triggers like pollen, animal…

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, asthma is a disease that affects your lungs. It causes repeated episodes of wheezing, breathlessness, chest tightness, and nighttime or early morning coughing. This chronic condition is when the airways that carry air to and from lungs get affected. People that are affected with this for a long time are said to be asthmatic (CDC.GOV, 2015). The inside walls of an asthmatic's airways are swollen or inflamed. This swelling or…

In the premature stages, my son’s asthma diagnosis was similar to a foreign land. I was unsure of what all this actually meant for us. I was instructed by a nurse on how to administer his medication. My son was given the standard medication after his first asthma attack. Albuterol and prednisone are medications used to treat asthma symptoms. Albuterol is an oral inhalant that is used alone or in combination with an oral steroid to improve lung function. Prednisone is another oral inhalant;…

Oral/nasal cavity- The nasal cavity is the primary intake for air for the respiratory system, consisting of cartilage, muscle and bone. It allows for inhalation of air into the body and warms the air as it enters filtering the air by removing dust, pollen, and other contaminants, purifying the air before it is passed to the inner body. The secondary exterior opening is the oral cavity, it allows for larger quantities of air inhalation, it also has less distance to travel allowing more air to…

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a life-limiting genetic disorder affecting 70,000 individuals worldwide (about 30,000 in the US). Recent advances in new drug development – approval of Kalydeco and Orkambi - represent a success for the CF community. However, these compounds are not sufficient to cure CF because (a) they show modest improvement in lung function, a key measure for cystic fibrosis patients; (b) efficacy decreases with long term use; and (c) additional drugs are required in patients with…