Saturday, September 27, 2008

Facts about asthma

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Eminent Pulmonologist and Head of the Department of Pulmonology, Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences Jamshoro Dr. Rashid Ahmed Khan expressed his concern over increasing allergic asthmatic disease in Hyderabad in an interview with this scribe on Wednesday.
He said that smoke of increasing number of new and unfit vehicles as well dust, which airing because of development work, were the main reasons for increasing allergic asthmatic among the residents of urban localities.
Dr Rashid Ahmed said the cigarette smoke, animal dander, mold spores, house dust, feather pillows, some foods, or any other sensitive substance, infections, emotional stress, fatigue, endocrine and climate changes are also the main sources of erupting the disease among the people, he said.
He said that asthma is an allergic disorder that is characterized by spasm of the muscles in the walls of the small air passages to the lungs, which results in the shortness of breath and wheezing.
About symptoms, he informed that an attack may begin gradually; resulting in increasing respiratory distress and it could also begin dramatically with the onset of severe multiple symptoms such as tightness in the chest, difficulties in inhaling and exhaling and coughing. Feelings of suffocation and difficulty in speaking could also occur, he added.
Dr Rashid said that asthma sufferers rarely die from an asthma attack, but the feeling of suffocation as their airways begin to close often makes them fear that they have already gasped their last breath


(Updated 12:20 p.m.) MANILA, Philippines - A man died of asthma while attending on Tuesday a healing Mass in Leyte which was celebrated by renowned healing priest Fr. Fernando Suarez, local police reported on Wednesday. In a telephone interview with GMANews.TV, SP01 Andrew Roca of the Tacloban City Police Station said Ricardo Mendiola was pronounced dead on arrival at the Eastern Visayas Medical Center where he was rushed after suffering from an asthma attack. Mendiola is a 50-year-old resident of Lukay village in San Miguel town, Leyte province, Roca said. Nalaman namin na si Mendiola ay may sakit pala na asthma




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