Asthma Pictures

Asthma is a condition that is chronic in most cases; it involves the airways that you breathe through. As a result of the narrowing that occurs, you feel short of breath or you develop a cough or even wheeze. This may occur during exercise, it may occur following colds, and last longer than your neighbor’s cold, or it may even awaken you during sleep.

Asthma isn’t just twitchy airways, which is the way we used to describe it to patients that we’ve seen. Really, it’s a difference in terms of inflammatory airway disease. Now that’s a medical term, and I think what I would describe for the lay population is one of having active injury. A burn’s probably a good corollary. You burned your skin, you’d have swelling, pain, and in asthma you have some degree of swelling, redness and some secretions, as well as that constriction that we’re all aware of.