Tuotromedico: ALLERGIES. Bronchial asthma

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The asthma is a pulmonary illness with the following characteristics:

Obstruction of the entire or partially reversible airline, spontaneously well or with treatment.

Inflammation bronchial and remodeled (fibrosis) of the architecture of the bronchus, with infiltration of the mucous membrane for eosin�filos and other cells, and a major or minor fibrosis grade subepitelial permanent, still in symptoms absence.

Bronchial hyperreactivity, or developing answer of the airline opposite to different stimuli, worse not specific than this illness.

Of these characteristics, the inflammation of the bronchial mucous membrane must always exist to be able to do an asthma diagnosis, the others can happen for periods of major or minor activity and presence.

SYMPTOMS

On having produced to him this inflammation of the bronchial mucous membrane, the following symptoms appear:

Cough

Hisses in the breast

Secretions (phlegms)

Shortness of breath or fatigue

None of them can appear and be asymptomatic.

These symptoms usually in crisis, lasting the symptoms a few days and yielding, or study study with symptoms of continuous form with more intense occasional sharpenings. Of atypical form, persistent cough, thoracic oppression can exist exclusively without other symptoms accompanists, or be secret like repetition bronchitis in children, being alone a process of cough and phlegms, without fatigue on having breathed. In all the forms the night predominance of the symptoms is typical.

ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF THE ASTHMA

The origin of the bronchial asthma is the predominance inflammation eosin�filo produced, in origin, for the allergy to well-known or unknown products. It is by it that in most of the cases nasal, itch and obstruction is accompanied of a rinitis on sneezes aguilla. This association is in the one that bases the theory nowadays accepted of that the asthma is a part of an allergic illness and not a pulmonary exclusive organic problem.

On this allergic inflammation they operate other mechanisms that unleash symptoms:

The infections

Strong smells

Sudden changes of temperature

Effort

Stress, nervousness

Alterations of the digestion, ebb gastroesof�gico

Others

The awaited evolution is towards the healing in a big percentage of the children with asthma since the predominance in the infancy is 11 % and in the adult it ranges between 4 and 6 %.

For it more than half of the children with asthma stops enduring this illness after the puberty.

FACTORS OF RISK

The risk factors to be supported with asthma are: