Asthma


 * ~ASTHMA~**
 * **Definition**
 * Asthma—also known as bronchial asthma is a chronic lung disorder.**
 * **Signs Of Symptoms**
 * If you start feeling tightening in your chest area and shortness of breath conditions like asthma can run in families, although not always from generation to generation. Also following hard exercise or in certain kinds of weather.**
 * **Early Detection**
 * For asthma it would just be signs and symptoms.**
 * **Treatment**
 * The Greek physician Galen provided a treatment for asthma. You can treat asthma by using self management that is the basic key to controlling asthma, with the guidance of their physician’s asthmatics can take back control of their lives. In today’s society asthma devices are made especially for that patient convenience. For example there are two basic ways of treating mild asthma. The first one is by taking the medication to treat asthma symptoms. The second one is by take asthma drugs before exposure to a trigger in order to prevent the onset of an episode.**
 * **History.**
 * Asthma was first described thousands of years ago by Hippocrates the Greek physician known as “the farther of medicine. Name for the condition comes from Greek word “ asthma” which means “painting”. Another Greek physician Galen became the first person to document the clinical signs of asthma. He observed that difficulty in breathing occurred after strenvous exercise or any other type of work and caused flushed cheeks and bulging eyes as if the person were being strangled. He also observed the overproduction of mucus in asthma: Quote – If the breath makes a rauzous sound this indicated obstruction due to an abundance of viscous or thick humors which are struck to the bronchi of the and cannot be easily loosed. The earliest attempts to treat asthma was in A.D. 1600’s by Paules Aegineta. He concentrated on trying to rid patients of the excessive musus by giving them specifies medicines that would break up the mucus plugs and liquefy the mucus so it could easily be coughed up. Five centries later “ Maimonides” a famous jewish and philosopher made an interesting discovery. He suggested heredity had to do with it and described typical triggers of asthma and advise his patients to avoid different foods. Jerome Cardan a 16th century physician was the first to suggest that asthma was cause by environmental factors. In 1698 physician Sir John Floyer claimed asthma was due to a “conrtature of the musclar fibers of the bronchi.” This was the first medical description of the underlying cause of asthma. Also found that asthma can lead to death. In 1794 Dr. William Cullen from Edinburgh Scotland got attention to the difficulty in diagnosing asthma. Finally Aerosois for treating asthma were finally invented in the 1800’s and a variety of medications were available prescription. This is all of the history that I have looked up about asthma in books and from some info on the website very good information. In today’s society they have taken controlled of asthma that’s very good to though so now that these people who have discovered things they mad it very for us to work with and this I very do appreciate.**
 * **Statistics**
 * **Doing warm ups is very helpful for treating asthma.**
 * **Asthma and allergies strike out 1 out of 4 Americans.**
 * **Approximately 20 million Americans have Asthma.**
 * **Nine million U.S. children under 18 have been diagnosed with asthma.**
 * **10 million Americans suffer especially from allergic asthma.**

Ivory Grey