Jennifer Couceyro, Advanced Registered Nurses Practitioner with Baptist Children’s Hospital, explains the diagnosis of asthma does take time. “It’s not a one-time illness diagnosis, it’s over a period of time; when you’ve had repeated exacerbations of this reactive airway condition …
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 6 million children have asthma in the United States. Jennifer Couceyro, Advanced Registered Nurses Practitioner with Baptist Children’s Hospital, explains the difference between asthma in kids and adults is …
Some of the signs and symptoms of asthma in children are frequent coughing, a chronic cough, less energy during play, rapid breathing, chest tightness, wheezing, loss of breath, and tightened neck and chest muscles.
Jennifer Couceyro, Advanced Registered Nurses Practitioner …
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, between 2001 and 2009, people diagnosed with asthma grew by more than 4 million.
Dr. Rodney Benjamin, Critical Care and Pulmonary Medicine Physician with South Miami Hospital, says the increased numbers …
Dr. Raul Valor, Pulmonologist with Baptist Health South Florida, explains an asthmatic airway during an asthma attack has an extreme narrowing of the lumen, and the amount of air that can get through is less than one third of what …
Dr. Mario Zambrano, Pediatric Emergency Medicine Physician with Homestead Hospital, says if you do not follow a treatment plan, asthma can get worse with time. He highlights it is important to use the medications, like inhaled steroids, which have a …
Dr. Rodney Benjamin, Critical Care and Pulmonary Medicine Physician with South Miami Hospital, explains asthma is inflammation of the airways, the pipes that carry the air from your mouth to the air sacs, where gas exchange takes place.
“When you …
Dry coughing, sleep disturbances, frequent yawning and sighing, heartburn, and fatigue are some of the symptoms of asthma. Dr. Raul Valor, Pulmonologist with Baptist Health South Florida, says people with asthma have a cough that sounds bronchial in nature.
He …
