El asma es una afección a largo plazo que reduce la cantidad de aire que entra y sale de los pulmones. Es importante controlar su asma, sin importar que sus síntomas sean leves, de difícil control o graves. La información en este libro está diseñada para ayudarlo a usted y a su familia a comprender mejor la afección, lo que la desencadena y cómo tratarla. Incluye instrucciones claras para una buena técnica de inhalación y enfatiza la importancia de contar con un Plan de acción para el asma, con el fin de que sepa: • cuándo y con qué frecuencia tomar su tratamiento • cómo saber si sus síntomas están empeorando • qué hacer cuando sus síntomas empeoran. Con ilustraciones simples y claras, explicación de términos médicos y espacio para escribir las preguntas que desea hacerle a su médico o enfermera, este libro le ayudará a controlar su asma. Indice: • Primero, los hechos • ¿Qué es el asma? • ¿Qué causa el asma? • ¿Cuáles son los síntomas del asma? • ¿Qué pruebas existen para el asma? • ¿Qué medicamentos se usan para tratar el asma? • Inhaladores y espaciadores • Su plan de acción para el asma • ¿Cómo prevengo una crisis de asma? • ¿Cómo manejo una crisis de asma? • Asma difícil de controlar • Asma grave • Tratamiento del asma grave • ¿Cómo puedo ayudarme a mí mismo? • Asma inducida por el ejercicio • Asma ocupacional • Asma en personas mayores • Asma en el embarazo • Asma en niños

This book distinguishes Islam as a spiritual message from the sociopolitical context of its revelation. While the sacred text of the Quran reveals a clear empowerment of women and equality of believers, such spirit is barely reflected in the interpretations. Trapped between Western rhetoric that portrays them as submissive figures in desperate need of liberation, and centuries-old, parochial interpretations that have almost become part of the “sacred,” Muslim women are pressured and profoundly misunderstood. Asma Lamrabet laments this state of affairs and the inclination of both Muslims and non-Muslims to readily embrace flawed human interpretations that devalue women rather than remaining faithful to the meaning of the Sacred Text. Full of insight, this study carefully reads the Qur’an to arrive at its deeper spiritual teachings.

Asthma Management: Clinical Pathways, Guidelines, and Patient Educatio n is a comprehensive disease management program designed to assist cli nicians in diagnosing and effectively controlling asthma. It provides detailed guidelines on all aspects of managing asthma from the initial diagnosis in the clinical examination to the treatment strategy which may include drug therapy and lifestyle modification. This essential r esource also includes easy-to-read patient education handouts, which t each and encourage patients to comply with interventions, while becomi ng active participants in managing their chronic condition.

The child in this story suffers from asthma, a chronic condition that sometimes produces frightening attacks. But kids learn that with proper medical supervision and treatment, asthma can be kept under control, and kids who are affected by it can live happy, active, and normal lives. As preschool and early-grades children read these illustrated What Do You Know About? Books , or have them read to them, they will be encouraged to explore their own feelings about problems that might be bothering them, or to find answers to a wide array of questions that puzzle them. The books have appealing color illustrations on every page, and each title features a short section of advice to parents. What Do You Know About? Books are available in both English and Spanish language editions.

"A thorough guide providing valuable information culled from scientific, medical and professional studies, as well as the author's own experience as a naturopath."

This is the first study to examine the representation of illness, disability, and cultural pathologies in modern and contemporary Iberian and Latin American literature. Innovative and interdisciplinary, the collection situates medicine as an important and largely overlooked discourse in these literatures, while also considering the social, political, religious, symbolic, and metaphysical dimensions underpinning illness. Investigating how Hispanic and Lusophone writers have reflected on the personal and cultural effects of illness, it raises central questions about how medical discourses, cultural pathologies, and the art of healing in general are represented. Essays pay particular attention to the ways in which these interdisciplinary dialogues chart new directions in the study of Hispanic and Lusophone cultures, and emerging disciplines such as the medical humanities. Addressing a wide range of themes and subjects including bioethics, neuroscience, psychosurgery, medical technologies, Darwinian evolution, indigenous herbal medicine, the rising genre of the pathography, and the ‘illness as metaphor’ trope, the collection engages with the discourses of cultural studies, gender studies, disability studies, comparative literature, and the medical humanities. This book enriches and stimulates scholarship in these areas by showing how much we still have to gain from interdisciplinary studies working at the intersections between the humanities and the sciences.