What is asthma?

Asthma is a respiratory condition marked by spasms in the lungs, causing difficulty in breathing.

One day, Alex was running down the street with her dog, and suddenly she felt this tightening in her chest. It was getting harder for her to breathe.

This is called asthma. Asthma is a condition where your airways are inflamed and this leads to difficulty in breathing, wheezing, and shortness of breath.

Asthma can be inherited or can be triggered sometime in life by exercise or allergies and colds.

Asthma affects your respiratory system and can be very dangerous. It also affects every system in your body because when you don't have air, your body stops functioning. The smooth muscle in the muscular system contracts and can make breathing even harder.

During an attack, a person's airways become inflamed, mucus clogs their lungs, and the muscles surrounding their airways tighten.

For a while, Alex was showing symptoms of this disorder by coughing during the night and during exercise, having anxiety, and frequent respiratory infections.