Reinventing the lifesupport for asthmatic patients

Imagine if you were told to hold your breath for say 5 minutes, how would you feel?Your first question will be, are you mad? Why would I ever do it? Picture the plight of the person suffering with breathing disorders. Think about those who had this disorder since birth, how much would they have suffered. I know how it feels because i am a patient of a bronchial asthma, the first time when i got this attack i was in Dehradun attending a marriage, 15 years old, it was December and very cold, i can never forget that night, i was struggling to breathe, i couldn't, i just couldn't, i was turning blue, my lips, my nails were all blue, i was loosing color. I couldn't think it was like someone had put a pillow on my face. Every one was trying to warm me up but nothing was helping, I was loaded with blankets. I remember my father coming up with the bright idea of giving me a spoon of brandy. I know it sounds weird but you know people that were the only thing that helped me a little. Since that was the first time i had this problem i did not have any medicines. Little did i know that it was the beginning of an illness that will last me a life time and i will have to carry my medicines with me wherever i go, and by chance if i forget i'l go through an excruciating painful 1 or 2 hours till i get my medicine.

So I’m glad that i got an opportunity to be able to reinvent the instrument which gives me life every time i get those awful attacks.

So with my team members , I’d like to first give a little history of different kind of breathing problems.

“All that wheezes is not asthma”. As a matter of fact due to our ignorance we feel that anyone who has breathing issues is suffering with asthma, but this is not true there different kinds of breathing disorders, Lets first understand what is wheezing?

Wheezing, or high-pitched adventitious sounds superimposed on the normal sounds of breathing, occurs when air flows rapidly through narrowed bronchi. Clinically, it should be viewed as a nonspecific manifestation of airway obstruction. Asthma is its most common cause, especially when the wheezing is episodic and the patient is young.