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Asthma cause and prevention.

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Saima Amin Daneshyar Department of Pharmaceutics, Faculty of Pharmacy, Jamia Hamdard, Hamdard Nagar, New Delhi, India
Yasmin Sultana Department of Pharmaceutics, Faculty of Pharmacy, Jamia Hamdard, Hamdard Nagar, New Delhi, India
M. Aquil Department of Pharmaceutics, Faculty of Pharmacy, Jamia Hamdard, Hamdard Nagar, New Delhi, India
Abstract
Asthma is a chronic Lung condition characterized by difficulty in breathing. People with asthma have extra sensitive or hyper-responsive airways indicating narrowing or obstruction due to irritants. These irritants make difficulty for the air to move in or out. This narrowing or obstruction can cause one or combination of the following symptoms like wheezing, coughing, shortness of breath, chest tightness, etc. Therefore, asthma is now recognized to be a primarily inflammatory condition and can be extrinsic asthma which is mostly episodic and less prone to status asthniaticus or intrinsic asthma which tends to be perennial and status asthmaticus is more common. Thus, this narrowing or obstruction is usually caused by:
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Page(s) 14-17
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Published Journal: Hamdard Medicus, Volume: 50, Issue: 4, Year: 2007

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