Asthma and the Effects on Urban African American Children
Introduction
A Child Who has Asthma Worse Dream
Imagine that you are a child that has to occasionally depend on a device to help you breathe â¦and that one evening you felt tightness in your airway and you begin wheezing and you look for the device that had often relieved your symptoms of asthma and you cannot find the device. You began to lose consciousness and you feel yourself losing the ability to breatheâ¦you look around for help, but you remember that you are sleeping alone in your bed⦠again you reach for your inhaler only to remember your inhaler was left in your book bag which is draped around the dining room chairâ¦you knew this day might come and now it has. You wish you can shout for helpâ¦but you cannot.
What is Asthma? And Symptoms of Asthma
Asthma is a respiratory disease that can affect adults and children.
An asthma inhaler, used as a bronchodilator to con...
Asthma: Mild and Chronic
Asthma InhalerAsthma is a disease that affects the lungs and is the most common long term disease of children in the United States, with a disproportionately higher incidence among minority children. Each day, 30,000 people have an asthma attack, 1,000 are admitted to the hospital and 11 people die (CDC, 2012). Asthma can cause repeated episodes of wheezing, breathlessness, chest tightness and early morning or nighttime coughing. As indicated in the opening scenario of the introduction of the child having an asthma attack, the symptoms of an asthma attack can come on swiftly. Asthma has four levels (types) ranging from mild to severe persistent (Kaul, 2011).
Mild - symptoms less than 2 times a week, no nighttime activity.
Mild persistent- symptoms more than 2 times a week with nighttime activity.
Moderate persistent- symptoms occur daily with nighttime activity.
Severe persistent- symptoms occur...