1. What is it? 2. Causes 3. Symptoms and consequences 4. Tranmission and types 5. Prevention 6. Treatments 7. Affected countries. 8. Future goals 9. Bibliography

 Chronic Illness which affects the respiratory system.  Sincitial Respiratory Virus.  Combination of genetic and environmental factors.

 Continuous flu and colds.  Allergic agents (pollen, dust..)  Variations in the weather  Polluted air we breath (cigarettes, cosmetics..)  Exercise and effort.

 It mainly affects to the bronchial tube.  Inflammation of the respiratory tract.  Bronchial spams,whooping cough and mucosity. Main consequences  Difficulties to breath normally.  The air doesn’t reach to the organs.

 Genetic illness ; no risk of passing it to other people around you. Types of asthma  Intrinsic asthma: Adult people  Allergic asthma: Children and young people.

 Avoid smoking or being in smoking areas.  Maintaining places clean.  Having a healthy alimentation.

 It can affect in different ways to each person.  Two different treatments : Control medicines: For a long term and prescribed by the doctor. Quick relief medicines: To relief a specific spam or attack

 U.K. is the most afftected (15,3 %)  It has increased in the last years.  This is due to the increase of technologies and pollution in developed countries.

 It is an INCURABLE DISEASE, but there are some different treatments as Breathol that help to decrease considerably the symptoms of Asthma. In what consists this treatment? Relaxing the muscles Decreasing the inflammations The production of mocus dissapear

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