‘Bronchial asthma’

Asthma Treatments

Monday, February 1st, 2010

asthma treatments

Fundamental objectives of respiratory rehabilitation:
1. Improve cardiovascular function respiratoria.
2. Prevent or treat complications without employing invasivos.
3. Prepare the patient and / or family to acquire responsibility for their rehabilitación.
4. Take steps to óptima.
5 medical care. Reduce the number of recaídas.
6. Decrease disnea.
7. Increased ability to esfuerzo.
8. Educate the patient and family for a realistic face with his illness.
9. Guarantee the individual and / or a more active, productive and emotionally satisfactoria.The assisted physiotherapy techniques can be performed even in infants.

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Asthma

Friday, January 29th, 2010

asthma

Bronchial asthma has been defined as a pulmonary disease characterized by reversible obstruction of the airway inflammation of it and increase its responsiveness to various stimuli.

The airway obstruction in asthma is due to the combination of several factors, including smooth muscle spasm of the route, mucosal edema, increased mucus secretion, cellular infiltration of the walls of airway (especially eosinophils and lymphocytes) and injury and desquamation of respiratory epithelium.

The reaction is exaggerated bronchial respond differently than the bronchi, these same stimuli, in non-asthmatics. We present repeated frames of increased inflammation and bronchial hyper-called crisis or episodes of acute exacerbation. Symptoms may be reversible, in whole or in part, with early and appropriate treatment or, less often, spontaneously.

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