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Q: Why is mucus produced during an asthma attack?
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What is a sentence using the word asthma?

Here is an example sentence with the word 'asthma':Mucus started to build up in my throat, choking me as I tried to breathe desperately in the asthma attack.


Why should skin turgor be checked in patients who are having an asthma attack?

Checking for skin turgor ensures that a patient is not losing fluids or suffering from dehydration. This is important in asthma patients because dehydration can worsen the attack by thickening mucus in the airways.


Auscultation of lungs during an asthma attack-pictures?

When a patient is having an asthma attack, I listen for crackles(a sample of a crackle is like rubbing your hair together near your ear), I listen for wheezes(sounds like a broken rusty whistle) these two sounds will mean something is going on in the lungs either fluid that is not suppose to be there or maybe mucus in the lungs.


What is a condition in which the airways constrict and fill with mucus?

asthma


During asthama de congestent oral medication is advaisable?

decongestent medication which contain pseudoephidrin finilphril hcl is not advisable during asthma. it may dry the mucus and may precipitate bronchospasm.


What is A disease in which excessive mucus is prodice in the bronchical tubes?

asthma would be one


Excess mucus is produced and accumulates?

Excess mucus which organelle is responsible for


When a person breathes cigarette smoke cilia are damaged and much more mucus is produced What will the consequences of this?

because the ciliated cell helps to keep the body from inhaleing harmful things but when this organ is damaged the body will start inhaleing substances which could damage the heart and lungs because of the extra mucus which the ciliated cell will find it diffucult to work with.


Mucus is produced by mucus-secreting glands found in the respiratory and?

Digestive system .


Does Asthma cause fluid in the lungs?

It can cause a buildup of phlegm and mucus in the airways, but not in the lungs.


What part of the respiratory system is the substance produced by the lining of the nasal cavity?

Mucus is a substance produced by the lining of the nasal cavity. This mucus helps moisten and filter incoming air.


What substance produced by the lining of the nasal cavity?

Mucus is a substance produced by the lining of the nasal cavity. This mucus helps moisten and filter incoming air.