No, I have asthma myself, it is definitely NOT contagious. The difference between a person's lungs with asthma is that when they are out if breath from physical activity, their lungs aren't able to inhale as strongly as a person without asthma's lungs. 1 fact is that asthma causes people to have more mucus in their lungs, which renders it hard to breathe. 2: You can either have asthma for a year or two or your entire life. 3: severe cases of asthma make the airway in your lungs narrow very tightly and will make you need a longer lasting inhaler. 4: the amount of asthma cases grows each year, this year there are 26 million people with asthma, and 18.9 million are adults and 7.1 million are children. 5: Asthma results in 439,00 hospitalizations and 1.8 million emergency room visits annually.
(what I'm trying to say is that asthma sucks)
Answer:
At the beginning, being a nurse used to be considered a synonym of being a witch. Taking care of the sick was just an activity that men could carry out and in case women performed it was just because it was thought to be a religious vocation.
During the Crimean War, Florence Nightingale developed the pillars of what we still use nowadays in nursing. Later, when nursing migrated to the U.S some more people became founders of this practice, such as Lilian Ward, Mary Brewster and Lina Rogers. Ward and Brewster created a house to provide the poor with medical care in Manhattan. Obviously the way to provide this medical care has changed during all these years taking into account the materials that are used such as latex instead of leather and giving the chance to our new generations of nurses to attend specialized schools in order to receive a degree.
SHORT TERM
1. Cardiovascular; "Increase in stroke volume (SV); increase in heart rate (HR); increase in cardiac output (Q); increase in blood pressure (BP); redistribution of blood flow"
2. Energy; "Increase in lactic acid (lactate) production"
LONG TERM
1. Muscular; "Muscle hypertrophy; increased strength of tendons; increased strength of ligaments"
2. Skeletal; "Increase in bone density"
IMMEDIATE
1. Increased heart rate
2. Sweating
