Asthma

Asthma is a Greek word, which means panting. It was one of the words to describe shortness of breath. The descriptions of asthma came from Aretaeus the Cappadocian in the 2nd century AD.” The lungs suffer and the parts which assist respiration sympathize with them” (Lane 1996). Asthma is a chronic, inflammatory lung disease characterized by recurrent breathing problems. People who have asthma have acute episodes when the air passages in their lungs get narrower, and …

…for patients with asthma. A study was done using this air cleaner and patients had fewer symptoms and needed less medicine (Adams 1995). Asthma is a chronic lung condition that affects a person’s airways. It is caused by environmental and genetic factors. Each year better treatments are available for asthmatics. A person can live a normal life with the proper treatment and some environmental changes. Hopefully one day, there will be a cure for asthma.