what is asthma?

Answer 1

Asthma is a chronic disease that affects your airways. The airways are the tubes that carry air in and out of your lungs. If you have asthma, the inside walls of your airways are inflamed (swollen). The inflammation makes the airways very sensitive, and they tend to react strongly to things that you are allergic to or find irritating. When the airways react, they get narrower, and less air flows through to your lung tissue. This causes symptoms like wheezing (a whistling sound when you breathe), coughing, chest tightness, and trouble breathing, especially at night and in the early morning.

Asthma cannot be cured, but most people with asthma can control it so that they have few and infrequent symptoms and can live active lives.

When your asthma symptoms become worse than usual, it is called an asthma episode or attack. During an asthma attack, muscles around the airways tighten up, making the airways narrower so less air flows through. Inflammation increases, and the airways become more swollen and even narrower. Cells in the airways may also make more mucus than usual. This extra mucus also narrows the airways. These changes make it harder to breathe.

Answer 2

Asthma is a chronic respiratory system that constricts your airways from , when looking at it looks like a small piece of skin that restricts proper breathing. For someone who has never experienced asthma it would be the same as plugging your nose and trying to breathe in and out through a coffee stirrer.

I have had asthma all my life and it used to be very restricting because it was exercise induced and even worse in the winter. There was no way I could even THINK about running outside if it was the least bit cold out.

Asthma can be worked out through exercise (if it's exercise induced) or you can take extra medication like singulair. Asthma rarely ever goes away but it has happened.

Answer 3

Asthma is an inflammatory disorder of the airways, which causes attacks of wheezing, shortness of breath, chest tightness, and coughing. And the best product that I have ever known to fight asthma is Transfer Factor. All my girlfriends nephews and many of her family have chronic asthma and with Transfer Factor they hardly get it. Its natural and you can ask your doctor. Its on the PDR and you can get it through the Internet, is call Transfer Factor Plus. It works by increasing your immune system. In the web page beneath you can get all the information you need, and if you want to ask me anything about it just send me an email to [e-mail]

Answer 4

Asthma is a chronic disease of the respiratory system in which the airway occasionally constricts, becomes inflamed, and is lined with excessive amounts of mucus, often in response to one or more triggers. These acute episodes may be triggered by such things as exposure to an environmental stimulant (or allergen), cold air, exercise or exertion, or emotional stress. In children, the most common triggers are viral illnesses such as those that cause the common cold. This airway narrowing causes symptoms such as wheezing, shortness of breath, chest tightness, and coughing, which respond to bronchodilators. Between episodes, most patients feel fine.

Answer 5

asthma is a chronic respitory disorder that most often occurs in childhood and can cause periodic attacks of wheezing and breathing diffuculty. If breathing is diffucult enough to cause a person to feel like they are suffocating it may require emergancy medical care. can be cause by allergic reaction to enviromental things,or exertion.such as exercise.

Answer 6

Well you got all the technical things about it. I have it. So I will tell you what it feels like. First come the start of an attack. You feel like your short of breath. Its coming. It gets worse...until your a drowning in air...heart rate goes up fast..because you star to feel scared..you need air and its all around you but you cant get any...your breathing rate skyrockets because you are drowning in air..you can say maybe one short word or two because you have no intake of air..you feel faint and can hardly walk ore move because the air you are getting in not enough to to anything..then the anger and frustration sets in..you have know idea...I want to breath and get my medicine myself... get out of my way...I will crawl a few feet and rest ...yes it is that bad...once I get my pills or what ever (now it is an inhaler) it starts to relieve me and lets me breath and I start calming down. I recently had two very serious attacks and drove myself to the hospital ER and am now on more steroids...sucks...but I can breath!!! Don't take your air for granted!!!!!! I hope that helps .

Answer 7

astham it danger breathing problem if you have asthma it make lungs weak if you run alot and you have to catch a breath becuase that asthma and if you hear your self weeze that mean your have asthma

Answer 8

n. A chronic respiratory disease, often arising from allergies, that is characterized by sudden recurring attacks of labored breathing, chest constriction, and coughing.

Answer 9

a syndrome where your body reacts on foreign bodies.