National
Center for Farmworker Health
Monthly
Topics
March
2008
Asthma
Asthma is a chronic disease that affects your airways. The
airways are the tubes that carry air in and out of your lungs.
If you have asthma, the inside walls of your airways are swollen.
The inflammation makes the airways very sensitive, and they
tend to react strongly to things that you are allergic to
or find irritating. When the airways react, they get narrower,
and less air flows through to your lung tissue. This causes
symptoms like wheezing, coughing, chest tightness, and trouble
breathing, especially at night and in the early morning. Asthma
cannot be cured, but most people with asthma can control it
so that they have few and infrequent symptoms and can live
active lives. Farmworkers often work and live in areas with
poor air quality which can increase the rate of asthma attacks.
The following is a list of research articles, education resources,
and organizations that focus on asthma.
Research
on Asthma
Patient
Education Materials on Asthma
Organizations
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