Effects Of Asthma On Children 's Asthma

Asthma is a long-term lung disease. Those with asthma have sensitive airways in their lungs which triggers a flare up. When this flare up happens the muscle around the airways squeeze tight and the airways swell, become narrows and produce more mucus. (Anon., 2016) All these things make it harder for a person to breathe. Asthma effects the human body’s respiratory system. Asthma causes a spasm and constriction of the bronchial passages and the swelling and the inflammation of the mucous lining. The body responds by defence cells from the immune system, which causes the airways to swell and the muscles surrounding the airways to contract. Which is what cuts off the airflow. While a person is in asthma attack, the asthmatic cannot breathe which

Asthma does not cause any learning difficulties in children, although children can lose confidence in their own abilities as a result of being made to feel ‘different’ it is essential that inhalers for children are accessible and given promptly. Children are often encouraged to ‘take control’ from an early age, feeling in control can lessen the chances of a child having a strong attack, as when they panic there airways are more likely to become tense.

A quite common, yet still horrible disease that people suffer from is asthma, which my uncle suffers from. It’s a terrible thing when you see them pull out that inhaler. You see the pain in their eyes. Also, how they have suffered with this horrendous condition of simply not being able to breath. Asthma is a non-communicable disease that plagues many people around the globe.

Since asthma exacerbations in adolescence can lead to emergency room visits, hospitalizations, missed school and diminished health status, there was an evident need for effective asthma management for this population (Quaranta et al., 2014). Unfortunately, these rural adolescents with asthma, and their families, had difficulty determining when their asthma was poorly controlled; and unless the asthma symptoms were disruptive to family life, there was often little motivation for these individuals to seek medical care, thus increasing the risk of poor outcomes (Quaranta et al., 2014, p. 99). According

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Asthma affects 1 in every 12 Americans. According to the American Academy of Allergy Asthma & Immunology, Asthma is affects “About 1 in 9 (11%) non-Hispanic blacks of all ages and about 1 in 6 (17%) of non-Hispanic black children had asthma in 2009, the highest rate among racial/ethnic groups.” As a mother of child with asthma, I know how scary it can be to deal with asthma attacks and learning how to treat the symptoms and minimize risk factors.

A mother put her her toddlers to sleep in the same room together, later that night she tragically found both of them doing the same thing.

About 10% of American children have asthma (Thakur et al., 2013). It is vital to understand what determinants cause childhood asthma to understand even with a low percentage, why it is still present. According to Williams et al., asthma is a health outcome which is a major impact on American youth (Williams et al., 2009). This health outcome not only impacts them throughout the years of being a child, but it has the potential of creating more serious health problems in the future. And without knowing what the causes are, it increases the rate asthma among children and prevents treatments from being implemented. It needs to be addressed by using results from prior studies in order to show how much of a problem childhood asthma is but also in finding and understanding the other underlying

Communication barriers exist between parent, school nurse, and healthcare provider. School staff feel unprepared for asthmatic attacks, especially since they are not told which students have a condition. No policies or protocols are in place to guide staff in what to do when a situation occurs. Staff are unsure when a student is responsible enough to be self-reliant. Limitations include, not having a representative sample from all the school districts. Also, only two healthcare providers answered questionnaires and they were from the same medical centers hosting study. In addition, participants were paid $30 for their time, which could influence who

Asthma is a chronic inflammatory lung disease that affects approximately 22 million people in the United States. Six million of those people are children, making it the most common chronic disease of children (“What is Asthma” and National 1). Asthma may be associated with morbidity, mortality, and diminished quality of life. Asthma is considered a long-term disease because there is currently no cure (Young). Further defining this disorder will be achieved by explaining the disease and symptoms, addressing how it is acquired, ways physicians diagnose it, and elaborating on treatments.

Asthma is a chronic lung disease characterized by episodes in which the bronchioles constrict due to oversensitivity. In asthma, the airways (bronchioles) constrict making it difficult to get air in or out of the lungs. Breathlessness is the main symptom. The bronchi and bronchioles become inflamed and constricted. Asthmatics usually react to triggers. Triggers are substances and situations that would not normally trouble an asthma free person. Asthma is either extrinsic or intrinsic. Extrinsic is when the inflammation in the airway is a result of hypersensitivity reactions associated with allergy (food or pollen). Intrinsic asthma is linked to hyper responsive reactions to other forms of

How is life like diagnosed asthma? How can someone as special as a mother has this disease, and, be able to relentlessly work every day, just to feed her family? My mother is someone who’s impacted by this disease, ever since she was small. But she’s someone who has been through many of the side effects of asthma since she stated in an interview saying, “When I was younger, I lived in the rural areas of Vietnam, specially Danang. At the time medication was very expensive, so I couldn’t afford to buy an inhaler. Which meant I’ve experienced numerous side effects of Asthma. For me, I’ve been through two asthma attacks, both were very serious and did impact largely on my health. It was challenging to live without the medications I needed, but, I fought through it all.” Consequently, there's not really a cure for Asthma now, but there are ways to relieve Asthma.

Managing a child with asthma especially with today’s busy families can be stressful, frequent follow-up visits, medication regulation, and environmental management all contribute to family disruption. Research has shown that a supportive and well-organized family decreases the child’s risk and severity of asthma symptoms. As a family nurse my initial action would be to conduct a qualitative interview such as, Family Asthma Management System Scale (FAMSS), that would allow me to evaluate their asthma knowledge, symptom assessment, response to symptoms, environment control, medication adherence, intervention of healthcare professional, and how they have integrated asthma into their family life (Raymond, Fiese, Winter, Knestel, & Everhart, 2012). Based on this information we generated a list of basic strategies that the parents felt would be helpful in managing their child’s asthma, through organized

Childhood asthma impacts scores of youngsters and their families. In fact, the bulk of kids develop respiratory illness before the age of

Both genetic susceptibility and environmental risk factors influence asthma [8]. Genetic studies have progressed from using linkage designs and candidate gene association studies to the genome-wide association study (GWAS) [9] and whole genome sequencing (WGS) [10]. Furthermore, different environmental challenges can affect gene expression through epigenetic regulatory factors include DNA modification, histone modifications, and regulation by non-coding RNAs, especially microRNAs (miRNAs). Epigenetics is an important and heritable regulation of gene transcription independent from alteration in gene sequence