And Slate explained how even after just 24 hours of no sleep, detrimental changes in the body are already starting to occur -- like rising levels of stress hormone, which bumps up blood pressure levels.
Asthma is a disease that affects the breathing passages of the lungs (bronchioles). Asthma is caused by chronic (ongoing, long-term) inflammation of these passages. This makes the breathing passages, or airways, of the person with asthma highly sensitive to various triggers..
Causes of symptoms of asthma. Symptoms of asthma are caused by excessive secretions in the bronchi, spasm of smooth muscle in the bronchial wall and inflammatory swelling of the bronchial lining (mucosa). These changes cause obstruction to airflow in and out of the lungs.