Asthma Capstone

The capstone meant to demonstrate the knowledge that students gained throughout the four years of attending Southwest Career & Technical Academy. The objective of this capstone was to find a prominent problem in the local community that is related to the experiences from the program areas. A prominent problem in the valley is asthma and the possible attacks that can be lethal if necessary precautions are not taken. People with or without asthma should be informed of the do’s and do not’s of taking care of the patients and be able to spread that information amongst the people that do not know it already. The question that needed to be answered was, “What information about asthma should be shared with the community to assist with the problem
A physician or an allergist is able to determine the severity of asthma and determine the specific medications that can be taken for specific approved exercises (American Academy of Allergy Asthma & Immunology). The physician would have the person affected by asthma do only specific exercises that would not be too hard on the lungs and have a warm up before the exercise gets too hard. Specific sports that involve cold and dry environments like basketball or gymnastics would cause the symptoms to flare up. Some swimming events that have a warmer and a more humid environment would be the recommended sports for the ones affected by exercise-induced bronchoconstriction. Medications like mast cell stabilizers, inhaled steroid, and leukotriene modifiers should be taken regularly. Prior to exercising, short acting beta-agonists like albuterol should be taken (World Allergy Organization). Those medications are strong enough to keep the lungs healthy for exercise and kept near for precautionary
Those infections are common so having people with non-allergic asthma can have it come off anytime during the seasons where the cold and flu are very common. Those times would include the winter and spring time because of the weather and the increase of pollen that is scattered throughout the air. To assist people with non-allergic asthma, corticosteroid for around ten to fourteen days should be administered through oral means like an inhaler or nebulizer treatments (Mother Nature Network). Corticosteroids are very strong medicines that can relieve inflammations around the body. Though the body does produce natural cortisone-like hormones, it will not produce enough to keep the inflammations relaxed consistently. There are other factors that can affect people that have