Home healthcare is a formal, synchronized program of care delivered by a variety of healthcare experts at the patient’s residence. In the past decade, requirement of home healthcare has grown quickly.

Journal of Patient Safety, a quarterly, has printed a paper “Household-Related Hazardous Conditions with Implications for Patient Safety in the Home Healthcare Sector” in its December, 2008 issue. This research is based upon a study; conducted at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University; funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and health. The study has recognized various types and rate of unsafe and dangerous conditions discovered in the Home Healthcare.

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Overview

Asthma is a disease that affects your airways which includes bronchial tubes and air sacs. Airways are tubes that carry breath in and out of the lungs. In disease like asthma, the inner walls of airways become inflamed (sore and swollen).

This inflammation makes them highly sensitive and reactive, to a number of allergic like smoke, fragrance, animal fur, dust etc. In reaction to allergic, airways get narrower and your lungs get lesser amount of air then required. This causes wheezing, coughing, chest congestion and suphocation, particularly early in the morning or at night.

As asthma symptoms get worse than normal, an asthma attack occurs. In a severe asthma attack, the air tubes can narrow so much that internal vital organs (viscera) become oxygen deficient and sometime, this sever attack results in death of the patient.

Although asthma is a controllable disease, but it can flare up any time even you feeling fine.

But in this advanced era of scientific technology, most asthmatic patients’ are know able to manage the disease. They can live healthy lives and sound sleep throughout the night without disturbance from asthma.

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