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Asthma is caused by a combination of genetic and environmental factors. While it is inherited and runs in families, environmental triggers like allergens and irritants can cause asthma symptoms. Asthma is not communicable but is transmitted through genes. Anyone can develop asthma, though it often starts in childhood. Symptoms include coughing, wheezing, chest tightness and shortness of breath, especially at night or after exercise. Doctors diagnose asthma through medical history questions and lung function tests. Asthma is a lifelong condition, and while symptoms may subside during teenage years, it cannot be cured.
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Asthma is caused by a combination of genetic and environmental factors. While it is inherited and runs in families, asthma is triggered by things in the environment like allergens, smoke, and mold. It is not communicable but anyone with the asthma gene can develop symptoms, though it is more common in children. Symptoms include coughing, wheezing, chest tightness, and shortness of breath that vary between individuals. Doctors diagnose asthma through medical history questions, physical exams, and lung function tests. Asthma is a lifelong condition but symptoms may improve during teenage years, though patients should still have access to inhalers in case of attacks. It affects the airways, lungs, and breathing muscles.
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Asthma is a chronic disease of the airways of your lungs which results in
difficulty in breathing.
While asthma can strike at any age, the onset of the disease is more
common in children under the age of 12 years.
An asthma attack is characterised by an episode of breathing difficulty.
Depending on the severity of the condition, the episode can occur a few
times a week or a few times a day.
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This document provides an overview of asthma, including its definition, types, pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, diagnostic evaluations, and management. Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the airways characterized by wheezing, breathlessness, chest tightness, and cough. It is caused by a combination of genetic and environmental factors and can be triggered by allergens, infections, pollutants, and other irritants. Diagnosis involves assessing symptoms, performing pulmonary function tests, and ruling out other conditions. Treatment focuses on reducing inflammation and controlling symptoms.
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Asthma is an inflammatory disorder of the airways that causes wheezing, shortness of breath, chest tightness, and coughing. It affects over 300 million people worldwide and was responsible for 250,000 deaths globally in 2009. Asthma occurs due to both genetic and environmental factors. Common triggers include allergens, irritants, exercise, and viral infections. Symptoms are diagnosed based on wheezing, coughing, and shortness of breath. While treatments can control airway inflammation and symptoms, there is currently no cure for asthma.
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What’s the one health issue that is gaining momentum in India with increasing air pollution?
Yes, you guessed it correctly.
It’s bronchial asthma or asthma, as you may know.
3% of India’s population, which corresponds to approx. 30 million people in India are affected by asthma. These figures comprise 4-20% of children and 2.4% of adults, as per reports.
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Asthma is a chronic lung disease that causes inflammation of the airways and makes breathing difficult. It is caused by inherited genes, respiratory infections, and exposure to allergens or viruses. Over 22 million people in the US have asthma, including 6 million children, who are most at risk if they experience frequent wheezing when sick. Symptoms include coughing, wheezing, chest tightness, and shortness of breath. Asthma is diagnosed through medical tests and is treated to prevent symptoms and control the disease with medicines.
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Asthma is a chronic respiratory disease that causes airways to become inflamed and narrowed, making breathing difficult. It is caused by a combination of environmental and genetic factors. Mrs. L has had asthma since age 15 that runs in her family. Her asthma is triggered by things like chickens, seafood, stress, and respiratory infections. She manages her asthma with medications like salbutamol and prednisone as needed for attacks.
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Bronchial asthma is a clinical syndrome characterized by increased responsiveness of the tracheobronchial tree to various stimuli. The primary physiological manifestation is variable airway obstruction. Pathologically, asthma is defined as a disorder of the airways characterized by chronic inflammation with infiltration of lymphocytes, eosinophils and mast cells. Asthma has many potential triggers including allergens, infections, pollutants, exercise and emotions.
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- 3. How is it Transmitted? Asthma is transmitted by genes, but that doesn’t mean you get asthma the day your born you can live your entire life without having any asthma symptoms, since asthma can be triggered by environmental factors such as allergies, Cockroaches, pet dander, smoke and mold.
- 4. Is it communicable? No asthma is not communicable its only inherited from a parent. Who gets it? Anyone with the gene is vulnerable,children and adults any age can have asthma. Although more likely to start during childhood. During childhood boys are more likely to have asthma then girls but during adulthood women are more likely to have asthma then men.
- 5. Signs and symptoms? Some symptoms of asthma are coughing, usually its worst is during night time and morning time. A loud wheezing when breathing, chest tightens up and a squeezing feeling, and shortness of breath. Symptoms vary from person to person and can occur at anytime, that is why asthma can be very deadly asthma attacks can happen at anytime. Somethings that make symptoms occur are molds,pollens,dust,certain medicines, Viral respiratory infections, and even exercise.
- 6. How is it detected? Doctors will do a regular check up and ask many questions, some questions they will ask are whether you cough a lot especially at night time. If breathing becomes heavy and hard after physical activity. They will also ask if any family members have asthma, this is a big question since asthma is transmitted by genes and if a family member has asthma the chances of you having asthma increase by a significant amount. After the many questions asked by doctors they will give you a lung function test which is called spirometer. Spirometer measures the amount of air you can exhale.
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