2 Common Diseases
of the respiratory system
There are lots of respiratory diseases in the world, but here we are just focusing on two of them. Here is the first one.
ASTHMA: asthma is a long-term disease of the lungs, and is often called by the doctors a "chronic respiratory disease". This disease causes your airways to get inflamed and narrow, this makes breathing difficult because air is passed slower and the breathing process takes longer. Coughing, wheezing, shortness of breath, and chest tightness are classical asthma symptoms. There are lots of factors that cause asthma, but some of the next are the most common: pollution, fatty food, smoking, dust, household chemicals, pets, genetics (chronic asthma) and bacteria
and viruses. Have in count that our immune system, our daily habits, and lots of other chronic factors may infer in obtaining the disease. Doctors can classify asthma in 15 different ways. They classify them in order of the different symptoms the disease on the person presents. More asthma symptoms are the next: AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION: when a normal person breaths, the muscle of your airways relax making the air move freely. But when you have asthma, those bands of muscles tighten, and air can't move freely. When this happens your lungs have less air and you feel short of breath. The air moving on this conditions makes you gasp. INFLAMMATION: people with
asthma have red and swollen bronchial tubes. This inflammation can damage the lungs. Treating this inflammation is key to manage asthma at the long run. AIRWAY IRRITABILITY: people with asthma have sensitive airways that tend to overreact and narrow due to even slightest triggers. There is not a cure to completely remove asthma but there are lots of treatments that keep the disease. In between those there is one that is very common: Short-acting beta agonists are inhaled by the broncho dilators and help alleviate asthma symptoms and attacks. They are often use before doing exercise, before going to bed, and while you're experimenting the symptoms.
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