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Asthma

Asthma. By: Jonathan Larson. Asthma is when the Alveoli (Tiny air sacs) at the end of your lungs are smaller than normal. So, it is harder to get air to your lungs and to the rest of your body . And without air you will die. What is asthma?.

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Asthma

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  1. Asthma By: Jonathan Larson

  2. Asthma is when the Alveoli (Tiny air sacs) at the end of your lungs are smaller than normal. So, it is harder to get air to your lungs and to the rest of your body. And without air you will die. What is asthma?

  3. Asthma can happen at any age in your life. But you are usually born with it and find out later in your life. You would want to find out as quickly as possible. How do you get asthma?

  4. What happens to the RespiratorySystem when you have asthma is everything else in your Respiratory System have to work harder to get air everywhere else. But sometimes they can’t so you have to use an inhaler. What happens to the Respiratory System if you have Asthma?

  5. The body can’t really fix itself when having asthma. All it acts as is a person with asthma has smaller air sacs than a person without asthma. So, there body has to work harder in order to get Oxygen to the rest of the body. Does the body try to fix itself?

  6. For asthma, there aren’t really medicines you can take for it. All you have is an inhaler if you have asthma. What an inhaler does is it is a rescue medication. It stops all of the asthma symptoms before they start to happen. What medicines do you need for asthma?

  7. Asthma is curable. You have to take medicine regularly and always have the inhaler with you. If you don’t have the inhaler with you and you end up having an asthma attack, there is a good 50/50 chance that by the time the ER, gets there, you will be dead. Is asthma curable?

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