1. Asthma: Acute/Chronic inflammation of the airways
By: Allie Brennan

2. Causes of Asthma
 Asthma is triggered by many things. Most are
triggered by allergies such as:
 Pet dander
 Exercise
 Cold weather
 The common cold
 Tobacco smoke
 Pollution
 Pollen
 Burning Fires
 Dust
 Changes in season

3. How do you get it?
 Not a contagious
diseases
 Usually inherited
 Women are more prone
than men
 Girls older than 12 are
more likely to have it
than boys
 Boys under 12 are more
likely to have asthma
than girls
 You are more prone if
your family has a history
of allergies

4. Symptoms
 Cough with or without mucus
 Pulling in of the skin between the
ribs when breathing
 Shortness of breath that gets
worse with exercise or activity
 Wheezing
 Comes in episodes
 May be worse at night or in
early morning
 May go away on its own
 Gets better when using drugs
that open the airways
 Gets worse when breathing in
cold air
 Gets worse with exercise
 Usually begins suddenly
 Emergency symptoms:
 Bluish color to the lips
and face
 Drowsiness or confusion
during an asthma attack
 Extreme difficulty
breathing
 Rapid pulse
 Severe anxiety due to
shortness of breath
 Sweating

5. Treatment
 Asthma may be treated with two kinds of medication
 Long-acting medications: preventatives and do not treat the
disease.
 Flovent and Advair: Both are inhaled, however Advair contains
steroids and bronchodilators, while Flovent only contains
steroids.
 Quick-relief medications: generally used everyday.
 Get rid of symptoms during an asthma attack
 Inhaler or nebulizer
 methylprednisolone may be intravenously injected into a patient.
 Can be provoked in some patients by taking NSAIDs,
nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.
 Having allergy tests are beneficial
 Help eliminate the source of asthma

6. Other Facts
 Can’t become immune
to it, but symptoms can
lessen over time
 Asthma can be terminal
 Complications include:
death, inability to
exercise, bad sleeping
habits, changes in lung
function, continuous
cough
 Avoid coming in contact
with triggers of asthma

7. Other Facts
 Can’t become immune
to it, but symptoms can
lessen over time
 Asthma can be terminal
 Complications include:
death, inability to
exercise, bad sleeping
habits, changes in lung
function, continuous
cough
 Avoid coming in contact
with triggers of asthma