Impact of Asthma: Understanding the Disease, it’s causes, treatments, and how to manage it
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Question 1
What is the selected topic title for your Course Project? Your response should be the topic that you selected in Week 2.
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Your Answer:
Impact of Asthma: Understanding the Disease, it’s causes, treatments, and how to manage it.
Question 2
Provide your rationale in selecting your topic. Why did you choose to research the disease/pathology that you have chosen?
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Your Answer:
The reasons why I chose Asthma is because, I grew up with it and I know the struggles of having it but not a lot of people do. I want to be able to provide insight into asthma just in case someone they know, or love has asthma, and they will be able to provide some guidance.
Question 3
List some of the symptoms associated with your topic.
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Your Answer:
Some of the symptoms associated with Asthma are shortness of breath, wheezing, coughing, chest tightness, and low peak expiratory flow readings (measures the amount of air you breath out.)
Question 4
How is the disease/pathology that you have chosen diagnosed?
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Your Answer:
Asthma is typically diagnosed through a combination of medical history, physical exams, and lung function tests. Doctors will ask about your systems, such as wheezing, shortness of breath, coughing, along with your medical history and family history of asthma or allergies. They may also use a stethoscope to listen for abnormal sounds in your lungs.
Lung function tests, such as the peak flow measurement, helps assess how well your lungs are working. This test helps measure the amount of air you can exhale forcefully and how fasts you can do it.
In some cases, doctors might also recommend additional tests, such as allergy tests or chest X-rays, to rule out other possible causes of your systems. As always, it’s important to check with your doctor if you think you have asthma to receive a diagnosis and to get the correct treatment.
Question 5
What are available treatment options for the disease/pathology that you have chosen?
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Your Answer:
There are some treatment options available once you’ve been diagnosis are, inhaled bronchodilator, this helps with a quick relief by relaxing the muscles around the airways. Inhaled corticosteroids, these are for daily used to help reduce airway inflammation. Long – acting bronchodilators, used alongside corticosteroids for long term control. Lastly, a combination inhaler, this contains corticosteroids in long-acting bronchodilators providing both anti-inflammatory and bronchodilator effects.
Question 6
What is the prognosis for the disease/pathology that you have chosen?
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Your Answer:
The prognosis for asthma varies depending on the factors such as the severity of the condition, effectiveness of treatment, and lifestyle choices. Majority of asthma cases, systems can be controlled with medication and lifestyle adjustments. Asthma is a chronic condition, and it can’t be completely cured but can be managed. Every individual’s situation is unique, so it is best to discuss your prognosis with your doctor.
Question 7
Explain what body systems are affected, and how they are affected, by the disease/pathology that you have chosen. Relate this to what you have learned so far in the course. Be thorough.
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Your Answer:
The body systems that asthma affects are the airways and lungs. The airways are tubes that carry air in and out of your lungs. If you have asthma, the airways can become inflamed and narrowed at times. This makes it harder for air to flow out of your airways when you breathe out. The inside walls of the airways in your lungs can become inflamed and swollen. In addition, membranes in your airway linings may secrete excess mucus. The results are an asthma attack. During the attack, your narrowed airways make it harder to breathe, you may cough and wheeze. While having an asthma attack affects your body, it can also affect you emotionally. The fear of having another attack could cause you to feel constantly anxious and afraid. Other people react in different ways instead of fear, they might feel embarrassed, angry, confused, or even guilty.
What I have learned throughout this course is that while asthma may affect our lungs and airways, it can also affect our emotions as well, knowing the signs and when we should seek medical advice is the best way to know if you have asthma.
Question 8
Add any other interesting facts you learned during the research of your selected topic that you want to share.
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Your Answer:
Some interesting facts that I have learned were, changes in aging lungs can also make asthma worse. Also, asthma is more common in female adults then male adults, around 9.7% of female adults have asthma compared to male who is sitting at 6.2%.
Question 9
Provide at least three references used for the research of your topic. This can be the course text book, articles in scientific journals, documentaries, news articles, personal interviews, websites, etc. You will need to do your best to cite each reference appropriately. Please use the Library Resources to support you in this: https://library.devry.edu/ Links to an external site.
Note: Images and pictures obtained from the Internet that are used in the presentation must also contain references.
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Your Answer:
- https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/asthma Links to an external site.(National heart, lung, and blood institute)
- https://www.mayoclinic.org/disease-conditions/asthma/systems-causes/syc-20369653Links to an external site.