What Is Asthma?

Asthma (AZ-ma) Is A Chronic (long-term) Lung Disease That Inflames And Narrows The Airways.

Asthma Causes Recurring Periods Of Wheezing (a Whistling Sound When You Breathe),

Chest Tightness, Shortness Of Breath, And Coughing.

The Coughing Often Occurs At Night Or Early In The Morning.
Asthma Effects People Of All Ages,

But It Most Often Starts In Childhood.

In The United States,

More Than 22 Million People

Are Known To Have Asthma.

Nearly 6 Million Of These People Are Children.

Overview ……..


The Airways Are Tubes That Carry Air Into And Out Of Your Lungs.

People Who Have Asthma Have Inflamed Airways.

This Makes The Airways Swollen And Very Sensitive.

They Tend To React Strongly To Certain Substances That Are Breathed In.

When The Airways React,

The Muscles Around Them Tighten.

This Causes The Airways To Narrow,

And Less Air Flows To Your Lungs.

The Swelling Also Can Worsen,

Making The Airways Even Narrower.

Cells In The Airways May

Make More Mucus Than Normal.

Mucus Is A Sticky,

Thick Liquid That Can Further Narrow Your Airways.
This Chain Reaction Can Result In Asthma Symptoms.

Symptoms Can Happen Each Time The Airways Are Irritated.


Asthma


Figure A shows the location of the lungs and airways in the body. Figure B shows a cross-section of a normal airway. Figure C shows a cross-section of an airway during asthma symptoms.


Figure - A - Shows The Location Of The Lungs And Airways in The Body.


Figure- B - Shows A Cross- Section Of A Normal Airway.

Figure- C- Shows A Cross- Section Of An Airway During Asthma Symptoms.


Sometimes Symptoms Are Mild And Go Away On Their Own Or After Minimal Treatment With An Asthma Medicine.

At Other Times, Symptoms Continue To Get Worse.

When Symptoms Get More Intense And / Or Additional Symptoms Appear,

This is An Asthma Attack.

Asthma Attacks Also Are Called Flareups Or Exacerbations.
It's Important To Treat Symptoms When You First Notice Them.

This Will Help Prevent The Symptoms From Worsening And Causing A Severe Asthma Attack.
Severe Asthma Attacks May Require Emergency Care, And They Can Cause Death.

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The diet that works

The diet that works
by Luis Fernando Verissimo

Every week something new. The last was that pizza prevent esophageal cancer.
I think the greatest grace.
Prevents this Tomato, onion prevents it, chocolate is good, chocolate is bad, a daily cup of wine is OK,
any sip of alcohol is harmful, take plenty of water, but hey, don't overdo it ...
Given this wealth of discoveries, I think most insurance will not change their habits.
I know what their is good and what's bad for my health.
Pleasure is very good . 0km me to sleep. Read a good book makes me feel brand new.
Travelling makes me tense before boarding, but then rejuvenate some five years!
Air travel legs don't swell, swell my brain, I return full of ideas!
Fighting, tease me a cardiac arrhythmia.
See people having bouts of stupidity, I wrap the stomach!
witness people throwing beer cans out the car window, make me lose all faith in humans ... And TV news ... Physicians should ban ... How to donate!
Walking is good, is good for dating, dancing is good, be silent when a thread is on fire, does very well: you exercise self-control and still wake up the next day without feeling sorry for anything.
Waking up in the morning, sorry for what he said or did last night, yes it is harmful to health. And spend the rest of the day without the courage to apologize, even worse.
Don't apologize for our stupid mistakes, gives you cancer, carry anger, be pessimistic, biased or false moralist, no tomatoes or mozzarella that prevents!
Going to the movies, get a central place in the ranks of the fund, having no one clouded his view, no phone ringing and the film is spectacular, WOW!
Film is better for health than popcorn. Talking is better than a joke.
Exercise is better than surgery. Humor is better than anger.
Friends are better than influential people. Economy is better than debt.
Question is better than doubt.
Dreaming is the best of everything and a lot better than nothing!

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Body & mind

The body is always smaller than thought, because the boundaries of thought know no bounds. But the body is just "Height and Weight." Already thinking of the formula is multiplied by the imagination and feeling the high power of reasoning. The thought that naturally gives a much larger size than the body. But society, the body, is plotting the time for us to be lonely, selfish and materialistic, so the economy grows and multiplies wealth in the hands of those who already have more than enough, while the universe, thought, conspiracy to find companionship, friendship and understanding. As the Harmony can only flourish where there is enchantment.
The body is powerful, and tools, and strength, is seduction. It leverages produces, sustains and constrói.Já thinking is influential because it is thought, is feeling, it's mind. He calculates, plans to sit down and multiply. But even though both may be incarcerated so great, the body may be captive in the office, church or car, and thought can be gripped by fear, or moral status. Freedom exists, but we must fight. For the body destroys the prosecution, for fear it destroys the mind. But the body for pleasure is what emancipation and the imagination is the thought that liberates.
I realize that there are two distinct streams of people. Those who through the body, because it bases itself are in the process of deterioration. And those who have thought as the seat of the soul, are in the process of maturing.
The body ages, but the thought remains young, the body dies, thinking hard, I suspect that thinking continues even after our death.

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Saudi women among world's biggest consumers of beauty products

RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA -- When they leave their homes, the women of Saudi Arabia put on veils and shroud themselves from head to toe in shapeless black cloaks.

But even though their faces are invisible in most public places, the kingdom's female residents spend more on hair care and cosmetics per capita than almost any other women in the Middle East.

Saudi women trade beauty tips on Twitter, and teenagers gather for "makeup nights," showing off their command of the latest "smoky eye" look. Meanwhile, the country's clerics denounce them as "distorting God's creation" and succumbing to temptation.

Last year, Saudi women spent almost $2.4 billion on cosmetics, among the highest per capita in the world, and analysts predict that the market will grow by 11 percent this year.

Here, "women of all ages spend more on their appearance," said Jacqueline Clarke, research director of Diagonal Reports, which tracks trends in the beauty market worldwide.

Most women prefer professional salon products, but official rules restrict licenses for beauty parlors. Only by having a "dressmaker's license" -- with tailors on the premises -- or an owner with influential connections can a salon avoid raids by the religious police.

The strict gender segregation in the kingdom, along with bans on public entertainment such as movie theaters and nightclubs, make weddings, engagement parties, birthdays and even condolence visits critical for Saudi women: They dress to the nines to impress one another and the mothers and relatives of eligible bachelors.

Noura Saed, 25, spent nearly seven hours and $270 on her hair and makeup at a salon in the capital, Riyadh, for a friend's wedding. In a typical week, she spends about a third as much on beauty products.

"Weddings are the most important events and a good opportunity for us to dress up," Saed said. "Men often complain that we spend a lot on appearance. Well, if you live in Riyadh, what else can you do but shop?"

Salons also provide an opportunity to meet friends. "Saudi women spend a lot of time in the hair salon for socializing, and they buy higher-end products," Clarke said.

In the past, upper-class Saudis learned about beauty trends by traveling abroad. Today, satellite dishes and the Internet allow all Saudi women to discover the latest looks, with many admiring the appearance of Western movie stars and Arab pop divas.

But the country's beauty industry continues to face harsh criticism. Sheik Mohammad al-Habadan, a religious commentator, recently suggested that women should show nothing more than one eye in public. Revealing both, he said, could promote lascivious thoughts.

And some beauty salons cooperate with such social pressures, displaying materials pointing out the dangers of damnation that come with a woman plucking her eyebrows or showing a made-up face to anyone but her husband.washingtonpost.com/

Saudi veils hide results of booming nip and tuck

Nose jobs, liposuction gain in popularity, even if few will ever see results

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Hidden beneath robes and veils, women's bodies in Saudi Arabia are undergoing a transformation.

Over the past few years, plastic surgeries and cosmetic procedures, hallmarks of the western world, have begun booming in this place where religion covers every facet of life — even those cloaked from head to toe.

Clerics are grappling for the first time with particularly delicate questions: Does Islam frown on nose jobs? Chemical peels? How about breast implants? Does it matter that the results will never see the light of day?

One of the clerics with the answers is Sheik Mohammed al-Nujaimi, and Saudi women flock to him for guidance about going under the knife.

Al-Nujaimi draws his guidelines from the consensus that was reached three years ago when clergymen and plastic surgeons met to determine whether cosmetic procedures violate the Islamic tenet against tampering God's creation.

The verdict was that it's halal (sanctioned) to augment unusually small breasts, fix features that are causing a person grief, or reverse damage from an accident. But undergoing an unsafe procedure or changing the shape of a "perfect nose" just to resemble a singer or actress is haram (forbidden).

"I get calls from many, many women asking about cosmetic procedures," said al-Nujaimi. "The presentations we got from the doctors made me better equipped to give them guidance."

In recent years, plastic surgery centers with gleaming facades have sprung up on streets in Riyadh, the capital. Their front-page newspaper ads promise laser treatments, hair implants and liposuction.

From rarities only 10 years ago, the centers now number 35 and are "saturating the Saudi market," Ahmed al-Otaibi, a Saudi skin specialist, was quoted as saying in the Al-Hayat newspaper.

Liposuction, nose and breast jobs most popular

Al-Otaibi cited a study according to which liposuction, breast augmentations and nose jobs are the most popular among women, while men go for hair implants and nose jobs.

Saudi women see nothing unusual about undergoing plastic surgery and then covering it up in robes and veils.

Sarah, an unmarried, 28-year-old professional woman, pointed out in an interview that underneath their robes, women go in for designer clothes and trendy haircuts to be flaunted at women's gatherings, shown to their husbands and exposed on trips abroad.

"We attend a lot of private occasions, and we also travel," said Sarah, who declined to give her full name to protect her privacy.

She said she is contemplating having 22 surgeries, including a breast lift, padding her rear and reversing her down-turned lips into a smile.

She also wants the lips of Lebanese singer Haifa Wehbe, and less flare to her nostrils, though so far her plastic surgeon has refused to do the nose because he doesn't think it needs altering.

Ayman al-Sheikh, a Saudi doctor who spent almost 14 years in the U.S., most of them at Harvard, said demand in Saudi Arabia is in line with increased global demand. But what he sees more of in the Arab world, including Saudi Arabia, is a customers for procedures that enhance the face to the point where it no longer looks natural.

The trend is being set by entertainers whose pouty lips, chiseled midriffs and enhanced breasts are seen on TV across the Arab world.

'Every face has its own features'

Not all customers seek religious sanction, and not all surgeons abide by the clerics' guidelines, so a woman is apt to pick a surgeon depending on how liberal he is.

"People are overdone by design or by mistake," al-Sheikh, 43, told the AP. "If something is done on a famous figure it becomes iconic in our world even if it doesn't look esthetically appealing."

He said when he returned to the kingdom four years ago, patients initially came with requests for one performer's nose or another's cheeks, but that stopped after word spread he was a conservative who believes "every face has its own features."

The boom in surgery prompted Saudi columnist Abdoo Khal to write a piece titled, "We don't want you to be Cinderella."

"Women's rush to undergo plastic surgery is an obsession resulting from a woman's insecurity," he wrote, "and it consolidates the idea that women are for bed only."
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