This document discusses asthma, including what it is, common causes and symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and classification. Asthma is a chronic non-infectious inflammation of the bronchus that is often caused by factors like smoke, environmental contaminants, allergens, infections, and obesity. Common symptoms include difficulty breathing, dry coughing, chest tightness, and wheezing. Diagnosis involves lung function tests and may include other tests. Treatment involves both non-pharmacological methods to prevent attacks and pharmacological therapies administered via inhalers or nebulizers. Asthma is classified based on the severity of symptoms as intermittent, mild persistent, moderate persistent, or severe persistent.

1. ASTHMA

2. What is asthma?
It is a chronic illness, it is non –infectious
This is produced by a imflamation of the bronchus

4. WHAT PRODUCES IT ?
SMOKE OF TOBACCO
CONTAMINATION ENVIRONMENTAL
ALLERGENS
INFECTIONS
OBESITY
ATOPY

5. WHAT SYMPTOMS CAN
PRODUCE?
SENSATION OF NOT BREATHING
EPISODES OF DRY COUGHT
TORACIC PRESSURE
WHEEZING

6. CLASIFICATION OF
ASTHMA
NIGHTTIME ASTHMA
ALLERGIC ASTHMA
WORK RELATED ASTHMA
ASTHMA INDUCED BY THE EXERCISE

7. How is it diagnosed?
The diagnostic of the asthma is complex because
sometimes the patient don’t have symptoms when they
go to the doctor

8. •Diagnostic Tests
•Lung Function Test
•Spirometry:This test measures how much air
you can breathe in and out.
It also measures how fast you can blow air out.
•Other test: A chest x ray or an
EKG(electrocardiogram). These tests will
help find out whether a foreign object or other
disease may be causing your symptoms

9. In case it is an allegic asthma,
how is diagnosed the allergy?
Is fundamental to carry out a study of the allergy to
determinate the allergen that influences in the
development of the asthma.

11. What is the treatment?
1-Non-pharmacological
Actions that prevent the asthma attack
2-Pharmacological
Are things that are arministered for inhaled routes

12. How is it clasified?
It is clasified by the strength of the symtoms. It can be
divided into four categories:
• intermitent
• light president
• moderate president
• grave president

14. type of systems of treatment
INHALERS
NEBULIZERS