Complete Health Care Guide

The word asthma in Greek means to be breathless.
Responsible bronchial obstruction in asthma is the result of several changes that will reduce the size of the airways:
- Bronchial muscle contracts: the bronchoconstriction;
- The wall of the bronchus thickens: it is swelling;
- The inner wall of the bronchus (mucosa) secretes mucus important: it hypersecretion.
Edema and hypersecretion reflect a change in bronchial inflammation called bronchi.
This inflammation is often not felt by the patient but is nevertheless the depths of the disease that is evolving into asthma chronicity. (more…)