By ELI KNAPP

What I already know? Asthma is a disease of the lungs that makes it hard to breath. People with asthma usually have a hard time breathing after sports or other physical activities. You have to use an inhaler when you have asthma.

What do I want to discover? I want to find out how they treat asthma. I want to discover the affects of asthma. I want to find the symptoms of an asthma attack. I want to discover the most common age for asthma.

The story of my search? I picked the topic asthma because I’ve had asthma my whole life. Our first day of work we learn about plagiarism and what plagiarism is. We then worked on getting information to put in are presentations. Then we took the information we found and put it in our presentations.

My search results?My search results An asthma attack is known as a “flare”. When you have an asthma attack you feel like your being strangled. Breathing with asthma is like breathing through a straw with your nose plugged. Asthma attacks can happen at any point in time.

Approximately 35,000 Americans have an asthma attack every day. Asthma causes 500,000 hospitalizations per year, with an average hospital stay of three days. American students miss a total of 13 million school days due to asthma American workers miss a total of 25 million workdays annually due to asthma.

Asthma is the most common chronic, or long-term, childhood illness in the nation. Some things that trigger an asthma attack include, smoke, cleaning products, and household items. The common ages for asthma in the U.S is there is no cure for asthma, but it can be managed so that the asthma sufferer can live a normal life.

Asthma can be caused by infection or by allergic reactions. After the age of 13 more girls have asthma then boys. Asthma kills more then 5,000 people every year. Asthma attacks often occur at night and may last thirty minutes to a few hours.

My growth as a researcher? I learned more information about asthma and what causes it. I learned how to make a nonlinear PowerPoint. I learned how to use easy bib to make my citations.

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