Symptoms Of Asthma
Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease that makes bronchial tubes particularly sensitive to irritants. This is characterized by breathing difficulties. The symptoms of asthma include: Shortness of breath. Asthma sufferers often say they feel as though they can t catch their breath, they feel breathless or out of breath. They feel like you can t get enough air into or out of their lungs. A feeling of tightness in the chest. This can feel like someone is sitting on or squeezing your chest. Coughing in people with asthma is often worse at night or early in the morning, making sleeping difficult. Wheezing is a whistling or squeaky sound when you inhale or exhale. Faster or noisy breathing Inflammation of the air passages, characterised by eosinophils in the airway wall Episodes of wheezy difficulty in breathing Rapid and considerable changes in airway obstruction peak flow variation 20 Narrowing of the air passages in the lungs and resulting increased...
posted by Dana on June 11, 2009
Wisdom Through The Ages
I have a friend who is much older than she looks. Since I know that she generally takes good care of herself by eating well and exercising great skin and what a fit body. , I once asked her if there was one thing she did that she felt contributed the most to her youthful look and she replied I try to sleep long enough every night so that I wake up naturally . I had hoped to get the name of some new amazing beauty treatment . There s lots of new research out there attempting to fully understand the effect that disturbed sleep has on health. Although, those of us who have had a newborn baby in the house KNOW without the science what sleep deprivation does to you OH BOY. But seriously, there are more and more indicators of the association between lack of sleep and many of the big killers. Lack of sleep appears to increase the production of stress hormones and drives up blood pressure, a major risk factor for heart attacks and strokes. Moreover, people...
posted by Emma on April 9, 2009
Stop Smoking Help By Nguang Nguek Fluek
Smoking tends to become a real phenomenon among people nowadays. This is due to the fact that everyone lives under stress and smoking is a solution for such living conditions. Not only adults are the ones that decide to start smoking but also young teenagers. These are exposed to such risks because of their environment and of their curiosity to try everything that it is offered without taking into account the consequences. These days the number of smokers covers a wide range of ages. The more this number increases the more the alternatives for stop smoking help are augmented. Besides the help of the family and of the ones that are close to the one who decides to give up smoking, there are some other choices that are more organized. This way stop smoking help is offered by professionals who know exactly what to say and what to do. Help Yourself First and foremost you are the only one who can give you assistance. You must have a strong will and you also...
posted by Tyron on February 18, 2009