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Welcome to my blog. This is an Action Project for my core class Disease. In this class, we have been studying the human body and all of its body systems. The eleven body systems are the integumentary, muscular, skeletal, nervous, circulatory, lymphatic, respiratory, endocrine, urinary/excretory, reproductive and digestive and each has its own important role to play. We have each picked a disease that has been in our family. The disease that I picked is asthma. Asthma is a disease that affects the respiratory system. In the slideshow below I say how each organ is affected.




Her name is Jane and she is 14 years old. She has had asthma for most of her life. It has prevented her from participating in sports. When she has an asthma attack, she stops and has to hold onto something in order for her to stop herself from falling over because she can’t catch her breath. She always has an inhaler with her whenever she is going somewhere that requires a lot of movement. "If I know I’m gonna run before it happens, I can take my inhaler and usually I’m fine but if I’m pushing myself like if I start to wheeze a little bit I stop before it becomes a full-blown attack. So yeah," said Jane. She used to be a part of a squash program but had to quit because of her asthma. Asthma has made her have more and more attacks from allergies. She sneezes all the time which can cause her to have an asthma attack. Her asthma has also affected her family because they need to be more aware of when we need to slow down and make sure she is okay. After a few years, she started doing better in controlling her asthma. She is now able to do a lot more than she used to. She also doesn't take her inhaler with her anymore. If you are not sure what an inhaler is, it is a hand-held portable device that delivers Albuterol to your lungs. A variety of asthma inhalers are available to help control asthma symptoms. Finding the right one and using it correctly can help you get the medication you need to prevent or treat asthma attacks. As for Jane, she used went to a doctor and had her asthma tested to see what would work for her. She walked out of the doctor's office with an inhaler and some medicine to use. The medication she got was called Antihistamine. She had been using it for a couple years but she eventually started to just take the Antihistamine. It has been working really well especially because her asthma is caused by allergies for the most part.

Asthma can be caused by both hereditary (inherited) and environmental factors. Just because you have a parent with asthma (or an allergy) doesn't mean you'll have it, but you might inherit the tendency to develop asthma. Some risk factors for getting asthma are having a blood relative (such as a parent or sibling) with asthma, having another allergic condition such as atopic dermatitis or allergic rhinitis (hay fever), being overweight, and being a smoker.



Jane. Personal Interview. January 30, 2020.
www.mayoclinic.org
CJH. Gingerbread Man. 2020

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