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Controlling Asthma

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About one in 15 people has asthma and it still continues to grow each day. Asthma is a condition where people experience and struggle breathing issues. The breathing issues affect the human' lungs. Asthma is not curable, but most people able be to control the condition. Controlling asthma could be a struggle or easy lead in a person's life. There is many different things that set off asthma attacks. The definition of asthma is a respiratory condition that has complication located in the lungs where the airways are inflaming and swelling causing the person difficulty to breathe. Asthma has no slang term, but it does have a Greek verb form, aazein. Aazein translated means to breathe hard. Rumors, whether it's false or true that the discovery …show more content…

The types and doses of asthma medications a person needs will depend on their age and symptoms. Asthma medication have types: long-term medications and quick-relief medications. Long-term medicine are taken regularly to control the symptoms and prevent attacks. While quick-relief medicine are rescue medications and its taken as needed for rapid, short-term relief of symptoms, it's used to prevent and treat an asthma attack. The main goal of the treatment is to control it. The doctor will decide which asthma medicines the person should use. The medicine comes in several brands and various forms such as sprays, pills, powders, liquids and shots, but most are taken using an inhaler. An inhaler allows the medicine to go directly to your lungs. Here mention are some medication/devices for asthma: bronchodilators, Cromolyn, nedocromil, metered-dose inhaler, dry powder inhalers, and nebulizers. As an example of how one of the devices, dry powder inhaler in this case, are used. Simply slide the lever away from until a sound of a click is heard. Meanings the medicine has been released. Then place the inhaler in your mouth as you next seal your lips tightly around it. Next take a quick, deep breath in for 10 seconds, and then exhale out. Finally they rinse their mouth with water and spit water

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