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What is asthma? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Asthma is a common long-term condition
that can cause wheezing, breathlessness. and a cough (especially in the
morning & at night).
What causes asthma? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Asthma is caused by inflammation
of the airways. These are the small tubes, called bronchi, which carry air in
and out of the lungs. If you have asthma, your bronchi will be more
inflamed and sensitive than normal.
When you come into contact with something that irritates your lungs, known
as a triggers (e.g. dust mites, animal fur, pollen, tobacco smoke, exercise,
cold air and chest infections), your airways become narrow, the muscles
, around them tighten and there is an increase in the production of sticky
mucus (phlegm).
What are the main symptoms of asthma? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Feeling
breathless (you may gasp for breath)
A tight chest, like a band tightening around it
Wheezing, which makes a whistling sound when you breathe
Coughing, particularly at night and early morning
Attacks triggered by exercise or exposure to allergens and other triggers
What are the main symptoms of asthma summary? - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Breathlessness
Tight chest
Wheezing
Coughing (especially in the morning and at night)
Outline the medical interventions which could be used to treat asthma. -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔Inhalers - Asthma medicines are usually given by inhalers,
which are devices that deliver a drug directly into the airways through your
mouth when you breathe in.