how asthma affects the respiratory tract?
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When you experience a trigger, the insides of your airways swell even more. This narrows the space for air to move in and out of the lungs. The muscles that wrap around your airways also can tighten, making breathing even harder. When that happens, it's called an asthma flare-up, asthma episode or asthma "attack."
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For those with asthma, or bronchitis with asthmatic symptoms, using the sauna can help by relaxing the muscles in the bronchioles. Asthma causes the muscles in your respiratory tracts to tense up, whilst the warmth inside the sauna enables them to relax again.
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Asthma is a lung disease caused by inflammation (swelling) that leads to wheezing, shortness of breath, chest tightness, and coughing. Who has asthma? Many people with asthma also have a family history of allergies, such as hay fever or pet allergies. It's a common ailment and complaint. How is it treated?
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Asthmatic bronchitis is bronchitis that happens as a result of asthma. The two conditions are linked. Having asthma puts you at an increased risk of bronchitis. This is because asthma constricts the air vessels in you lungs.
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Coughing in people with asthma can be helpful because it's one of the body's natural defense mechanisms. A productive asthmatic cough will expel phlegm and mucus from the lungs. In most cases of asthma, the cough is considered nonproductive.
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['Ear infections.', 'More frequent and severe asthma attacks.', 'Respiratory symptoms (for example, coughing, sneezing, and shortness of breath)', 'Respiratory infections (bronchitis and pneumonia)', 'A greater risk for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)']
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What is Asthma? A condition in which the airways narrow, swell, and produce extra mucus. This can make breathing difficult and trigger coughing, wheezing, and shortening of breath.
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Health effects Sulfur dioxide affects the respiratory system, particularly lung function, and can irritate the eyes. Sulfur dioxide irritates the respiratory tract and increases the risk of tract infections. It causes coughing, mucus secretion and aggravates conditions such as asthma and chronic bronchitis.
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Asthma Flare-Ups When you experience a trigger, the insides of your airways swell even more. This narrows the space for air to move in and out of the lungs. The muscles that wrap around your airways also can tighten, making breathing even harder.
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In allergic asthma, exposure of the surface of the lungs to a foreign substance (an allergen) provokes an immune response, resulting in inflammation of the airways, which makes it difficult to breathe. Atopic dermatitis is also the result of inflammation in response to exposure of the skin to allergens.
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Asthma is a chronic (long-term) condition that affects the airways in the 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.
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Research has also shown that the body's response to stress triggers the immune system and causes the release of certain hormones. This can lead to inflammation within the airways of the lungs, triggering an asthma attack. Living with asthma may also cause stress and anxiety.
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Inflammation and narrowing of the airway in any location, from your throat out into your lungs, can result in wheezing. The most common causes of recurrent wheezing are asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which both cause narrowing and spasms (bronchospasms) in the small airways of your lungs.
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Asthma and other respiratory diseases are often linked to the immune system and inflammation. This is because the immune system is thought to be a regulator of asthma and airways inflammation by producing too many immune factors in response to a stimuli that should not cause such a reaction.
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Poor air quality can irritate the eyes, nose, and throat, cause shortness of breath, aggravate asthma and other respiratory conditions, and affect the heart and cardiovascular system. Breathing polluted air for long periods of time can cause more serious problems.
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Coughing is the body's way of trying to remove whatever is irritating the lungs. While people with asthma often experience a whistling or wheezing sound in the chest in addition to coughing, there is a form of asthma in which the only symptom is a chronic cough. This is known as cough-variant asthma.
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During an asthma attack, also called an asthma exacerbation, the airways become swollen and inflamed. The muscles around the airways contract and the airways produce extra mucus, causing the breathing (bronchial) tubes to narrow. During an attack, you may cough, wheeze and have trouble breathing.