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Asthma
This category is for questions about the respiratory issues dealing with asthma. Asthma is characterized by decreased levels of oxygen reaching the lungs due to an obstruction, resulting in "asthma attacks" or worse. There are millions of people with this disease. Here you can ask about its causes, symptoms, and treatment.
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How does asthma affect you physically?
Asthma can affect your lifestyle if it is not controlled properly. The intermittent wheeze that is produced by asthma causes some duress to the patient. On the other hand, since asthma attacks are more common during nights, the patient has disturbed sleep, leading to a reduction in his or her work output the following day. Thus untreated asthma can impair your lifestyle. But the good news for asthmatics is that modern medicine has several reliable drugs to treat the disorder and ensure that the patient has a normal lifestyle.
What are the side effect of inhaler for asthma?
ADVAIR DISKUS can cause serious side effects, including: •
People with asthma who take long-acting beta2-adrenergic agonist (LABA) medicines, such as salmeterol (one of the medicines in ADVAIR DISKUS), have an increased risk of death from asthma problems. It is not known whether fluticasone propionate, the other medicine in ADVAIR DISKUS, reduces the risk of death from asthma problems seen with LABA medicines. • It is not known if LABA medicines such as salmeterol increase the risk of death in people with COPD. • Call your healthcare provider if breathing problems worsen over time while using ADVAIR DISKUS. You may need different treatment. •
Get emergency medical care if: your breathing problems worsen quickly. • you use your rescue inhaler, but it does not relieve your breathing problems. • ADVAIR DISKUS should be used only if your healthcare provider decides that your asthma is not well controlled with a long-term asthma control medicine, such as an inhaled corticosteroid. When your asthma is well controlled, your healthcare provider may tell you to stop taking ADVAIR DISKUS. Your healthcare provider will decide if you can stop ADVAIR DISKUS without loss of asthma control. Your healthcare provider may prescribe a different asthma control medicine for you, such as an inhaled corticosteroid. • Children and adolescents who take LABA medicines may have an increased risk of being hospitalized for asthma problems.
Does everyone get the same symptoms of diabetes?
Not everyone has the same symptoms when it comes to diabetes, though some symptoms are more prevalent than others. Some of those include: unquenchable thirst, excessive urination, weight loss, and fatigue.
In what part of the world is asthma least prevalent and why?
USA, Canada, the UK, Australia and New Zealand, along with heavily industrialised countries such as Brazil, Peru and South Africa, have the highest rates of asthma, according to Patient Health International
http://www.patienthealthinternational.com/pressrelease/5785.aspx
What happens to a person who has emphysema?
it slowly kills you. ---- Emphysema is most often caused by long term exposure to cigarette smoke, or exposure to other irritants (people who used to work in coal mines often develop emphysema).
The irritants gradually damage the alveoli in the lungs, destroying their elasticity and shape. This results in a smaller surface area for gas exchange between the alveoli and blood vessels to take place. This results in less oxygen being absorbed and delivered to body tissues. The person with emphysema will therefore get very short of breath very quickly when carrying out day to day activities.
Does asthma affect specific populations of people?
We don't know if Autism is more common in one race in particular. Currently figures show higher rates in white people but this is not to say that white people are more likely to be autistic, this is simply because white people have better access to assessments to get a diagnosis and culturally there will be less stigma in white communities against people with neurological conditions.
If you have asthma what dogs can you have?
First you need to know symptoms & Causes of Asthma :
Asthma Symptoms: Coughing, Chest Tightness, Shortness of Breath, Difficulty in Breathing, wheezing, Increased Heart Rate & more.
Causes of Asthma: Smoking, Allergies, Pollution, Dust Mites, Infections, Cold Wind, poor Digestion, Food Allergies, Weather Conditions.
Asthma should be treated in the right way, so that asthmatic people may live a normal life more actively.
The first step to relieve an asthma attack is to use your quick-acting bronchodilator (such as albuterol). The usual dose is 2 puffs, breathed slowly and deeply. In a sudden severe crisis of breathing, you can safely use as many as 4 puffs at a time. Under normal circumstances, it is usually recommended that you use your quick-relief bronchodilator no more than 4 times a day. To treat an asthma attack, however, you can safely use it as often as every 20 minutes for as long as 2 hours, if needed. If available, a compressor with nebulizer can be used in the same way, every 20 minutes for several doses. The major side-effects to anticipate are a jittery feeling and racing of the heart.
Asthma is a disease of the lungs. Snow mountain garlic also helps to reduce Asthma disease.
Eat a Snow Mountain Garlic Capsule Daily OR Add 3 cloves of garlic to a pot of hot water. Boil it for 5-7 minutes. Let it cool and then drink.
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Is there a vaccine for asthma?
There is always research being done because asthma is so common and can cause a lot of breathing problems. But there has been no cure found or cause of asthma. Try doing a search on the internet and you will probably find research done on asthma.
What systems are effected by hypothermia?
It affects virtually all organ systems. The most significantly affeccted are the cardiovascular system and the Central Nervous System.
What happens if there is not enough oxygen in the blood?
If your blood was ever truly too acidic or basic, you're body would go into massive shutdown as your blood completely dissolved you from the inside out. However, unless some organs are failing, you have absolutely no need to worry. Lots of alternative medicine sites would love to sell you magical concoctions that will balance your body's pH, and these are just a bunch of crackpot products that make completely unverified claims. You probably can get your chi balanced and your chakras realigned for free if you buy in bulk. If you did have organ failure, you'd be on an IV under the supervision of trained medical staff.So you, like most of the non-organ-failure public, will never need to worry about purchasing buffers or any other such nonsense. I suspect that most of those buying such products may have at least one failed organ: their brains.
Can a poodle trigger asthma or allergies?
Since poodles are known as hypoallergenic dogs any size poodle is great for people that have asthma. (I have high asthma and i own a miniature poodle. Great!) Poodles do shed, but less than some dogs, because their hair grows longer than most, so the shedding is less frequent. Dog skin (dander) and saliva are more significant than the hair as far as allergens are concerned, so the more a dog is groomed (outside the home), the less allergens are shed into the home. People with an allergy to an animal, can sometimes physiologically come to accept a particular animal as part of their environment after being exposed to them for some time, which is why some people do not react to their own cat or dog, but do to others.
How does emphysema affect a person's alveoli?
*IT* Doesnt
Emphyesma is when alveoli die.
how does it affect them...
Well it would affect them like it affects every other cell in the body.
(decreased O2)
but it acually doesnt affect the alveoli
it just happens
when they die
What causes cold cough asthma bronchitis pneumonia tuberculosis lung cancer and cystic fibrosis?
The question "what causes a cold, cough, asthma, bronchitis, pneumonia, tuberculosis, lung cancer, and cystic fibrosis" is too broad to be explained in one answer. Each condition has it's own causes (example: a cold is from a virus; tuberculosis is from the TB organism). But at the root of each of these is the start of a mechanism or microorganism that causes irritation of the bronchi/bronchioles and lung tissue, restriction of lung expansion, and often resulting in a type of cough specific to that condition or disease. For example, pneumonia can often create serious lung sounds that help define how serious the pneumonia is (such as "rales" or "rhonci") but a general cough from a viral cold usually only produces some wheezing and cough. Again, each of the conditions or diseases you listed have a specific and different causative factor, but each can have direct effects on respiration.
What effect does asthma have on the blood pressure?
One of the ways it can affect the heart is because there is less Oxygenated blood being pumped from the lungs due to less Oxygen entering the body. This can therfore cause the heart to have to beat harder and faster to adequately supply the body with Oxygen. This is tiring for the heart and can sometimes cause irregular pulse patterns.
What is the breathing machine for asthma attacks?
You can use either:
A nebulizer. You put anti inflammatory medicine or other medicine to help stop difficulty breathing into a plastic chamber, you put the mask to your mouth ( comes in a mouth tube or a strap where it cover your mouth) and breath it in to reduce swelling and inflammation.
OR
A fast acting inhaler which will quickly reduce swelling and inflammation. There is a aerochamber ( you puff the medicine into a chamber,open the lid, then breath it in, gets more medicine then)
A regular inhaler which you puff then breath)
Is asthma caused by allergies?
no it is caused when your lung tubes have too much cell thingies in them causing air to not pass through them as easily.
Can one get infected by asthma while sitting close to the infected person?
i have no idea wat u talkin bout
Yes, it can be passed down through the character sequences in the DNA, but no, it can not be spread from person-to-person.
If you mean can you get asthma from someone else who has it the answer is no. Asthma is an allergic reaction, not actually a disease, and therefore cannot be given to other people. Trust me I have it.
What is distinguish between asthma and emphysema?
Asthma and emphysema are two entirely different diseases with some symptoms in common. Asthma is a spastic and inflammatory disease of the airways that causes reversible obstruction of the bronchial tubes. It usually responds to treatment.
Emphysema is a disease of the lung tissue, especially the alveoli (air sacs) at the end of the bronchial tubes. Emphysema results from destruction of these alveoli. This process is not reversible and responds less well to medical treatment. Emphysema is slowly progressive; you will get short of breath and become more disabled as time goes on. Eventually you may require continuous concentrated oxygen to be comfortable. This irreversible disease (and other obstructive lung diseases such as chronic bronchitis) is often referred to as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
Can you get an Air force medical waiver if you have asthma?
No, this is a pre-existing medical condition and if you get into the military and found that this was pre-existing you will be discharged without any benefits. If you are in the military and have developed asthma you will be Medically Boarded to see the severity of the disease...and wither you stay in or not is up to the Medical Board.
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Color blindness is the inability to differentiate between different colors. The most common type is red-green color blindness. This occurs in 8 percent of males and 0.4 percent of females. It occurs when either the red or green cones are not present or not functioning properly. People with this problem are not completely unable to see red or green, but often confuse the two colors. This is an inherited disorder and affects men more commonly since the capacity for color vision is located on the X chromosome. (Women have two X chromosomes, so the probability of inheriting at least one X with normal color vision is high; men have only one X chromosome to work with. The inability to see any color, or seeing only in different shades of gray, is very rare.
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Women can be color blind, but only if their father is. If they got a carrier gene from their color blind father and one from their mother, they would be homozygous recessive, and therefore would be colorblind. Actually I am a woman and my dad is color blind and I am not.
The answer says a woman can be color blind only if her father is. In your case, you had a chance of being color blind because your dad is.
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Not all women who are color blind has their father color blind. I - being female, I am partially color blind and cannot tell what different color shades are sometimes. Meaning I when dark purple is put in front of me I see light purple. Or if red is in front of me, I see pink. Vice versa, and same with other colors. My father is not color blind. I am not sure that this is color blindness that you have. It seems that you have a color vision defect called Protanomaly, where your color deficiency has to deal with saturation. When someone is color blind it has to deal with hue of the color. This form of color deficiency is also rare.
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Color blindness is yummy X-linked trait. That means it is carried in the X chromosome, which differentiates whether a baby will be a girl or a boy. Women have two X chromosomes (XX), and men have an XY combination. If a woman is a carrier for color blindness, only one of her chromosomes will be affected (we'll call it a little "x"), and for that reason she will not be colorblind. Men, on the other hand, only have one X chromosome, so any time they carry the colorblindness gene, they will be colorblind. Since women have two X chromosomes, both must be affected in order for her to be colorblind. A child inherits one chromosome from each parent. He/She will get an X chromosome from his/her mother, and an X from her father (if a girl) or a Y from his father (if a boy). Thus, her father must be colorblind, and her mother must be a carrier (or colorblind), and she must receive a copy of the affected chromosome. For the female offspring to be color blind, the father must be color blind. A father with normal vision would produce heterozygous female offspring and they would be a carrier.
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OK girls can not get colorblind only guys have the chromosome gene because the women gives the X and the guy determines if it a boy or girl the colorblind is in the Y chromosome if you get that one your a guy i know this my mom works at a hospital girls can not become colorblind.
_ok im not the one who posted this but i am here to say that's bull crap my mom is fully color blind and can only see black white and shades of gray like those old movies. its do to a mutation of cells in there eyes that kicks out color cones
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I just got done studying genetics and yes it is VERY RARE but women can be colorblind. If a female gets a bad X-chromosome from mom then she is a carrier and can pass it to her son but if she gets a bad one from her mom then her dad would have to have a bad one for her to be colorblind, which is what makes it rare that she would get a bad one from her mother and her dad would be colorblind. She could just get the bad one from dad if he is colorblind but a good one from mom and still be just a carrier.
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I am a woman who is red--green colorblind. The trait is carried on the X chromosome. Males receive an X chromosome from their mother and a Y from their father. If the X carries the trait of colorblindness, the male will be colorblind. Females need to receive two defective X chromosomes to be colorblind, one from their father and one from their mother. If a women has only one defective X chromosome, she will be a carrier of the trait. My father was red-green colorblind and so was my mother's father, making my mother a carrier of the trait, although she is not colorblind herself. I have two sisters who are not colorblind, as they each received a non-defective X chromosome from my mother. I knew before my son was born that he would be red-green colorblind, as the X chromosome he received from me carried the trait.
What is the cause of silent reflux?
It's like regular acid reflux except instead of staying in the esophagus it goes up into your throat. One often doesn't know that they have acid reflux until they go to the doctor with throat problems (sore throat, hoarse voice ect...)
