What's the difference between asthmatic and wheezy?
Asthmatic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Asthmatical
(n.) A person affected with asthma.
Example Sentences:
(1) Bronchial challenge caused an immediate asthmatic response.
(2) These data suggest that submaximal exercise and cold air exposure enhance nonspecific bronchial reactivity in asthmatic but not in normal subjects.
(3) The sensitivity and specificity of three methods of provocation, ie, histamine, nebulized water, and exercise, were compared in 20 asthmatic and 20 control children between ages 5 and 13 years.
(4) Relative to the perceived severity of their asthma, both Maoris and Pacific Islanders lost more time from work or school and used hospital services more than European asthmatics using A & E. The increased use of A & E by Maori and Pacific Island asthmatics seemed not attributable to the intrinsic severity of their asthma and was better explained by ethnic, socioeconomic and sociocultural factors.
(5) Exposure to irritants was also more common among the asthmatics than the nonasthmatics with similar exposure to organic allergens (P = 0.004).
(6) Inhalation of allergen by sensitised asthmatics results in an acute increase of airways resistance that, in some individuals, is succeeded by a response of late-onset.
(7) Thirteen asthmatic subjects (six aspirin tolerant and seven aspirin intolerant) in a stable clinical condition and ten healthy subjects were studied.
(8) Mattress dusts from the beds of 51 asthmatic children with positive skin tests to house dust mite were assayed for Der p I, Fel d I and certain viable fungi.
(9) In addition to prescribing an appropriate drug regimen, physicians must carefully educate asthmatic patients.
(10) Nine mild to moderate asthmatic adults (three males, six females) and six non-asthmatics (one male, five females) underwent endurance running training three times per week for five weeks, at self selected running speeds on a motorized treadmill.
(11) To evaluate the role of the neutrophil in the pathophysiology of bronchial asthma, we examined the luminol-dependent chemiluminescence of peripheral neutrophils (CL) in steroid-dependent asthmatic patients during an acute attack (n = 18), during stable period (n = 10), and in normal controls (n = 21).
(12) Fifty asthmatics, candidates for hyposensitization with the house dust mite Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus (Dp), went through a series of allergy tests to evaluate the sensitivity of different organs to Dp.
(13) In 13 asthmatic patients the eosinophil degranulation in 44% D2O or more was stated.
(14) The quantitative effects of theophylline anhydrous upon exercise-induced asthma (EIA) were evaluated in asthmatic children.
(15) On the contrary, ketanserin did not inhibit histamine-induced bronchoconstriction in four of these eight asthmatics, even though it modified sensitivity and reactivity in one of them.
(16) Patients were assessed by daily scores of their asthmatic symptoms, twice daily PEFR measurements and the amount of anti-asthmatic medication used.
(17) In a group of 32 steroid-dependent asthmatic patients an attempt was made to replace steroid treatment with disodium cromoglycate (Lomudal).
(18) Incidence of cockroach hypersensitivity was 58% among asthmatic adults and 69% among asthmatic children.
(19) We measured the plasma levels of TXB2, a stable metabolite of TXA2, and 6-K-PGF1 alpha, a stable metabolite of PGI2, in 28 asthmatics (16 of extrinsic type, 12 of intrinsic type) during symptomatic period and asymptomatic period respectively with radioimmunoassay.
(20) No IgE circadian rhythm was validated in healthy children while a large amplitude (approximately equal to 30% of the 24 hours mean) circadian rhythm with 2 diurnal peaks and a nocturnal trough was demonstrated (P less than 0.0023) in the asthmatics.
Wheezy
Definition:
(a.) Breathing with difficulty and with a wheeze; wheezing. Used also figuratively.
Example Sentences:
(1) In patients three years of age or less, M. pneumoniae was isolated at the same rate from febrile and afebrile cases and from wheezy and non-wheezy cases.
(2) Recurrent croup was significantly associated with a patient history of asthma and wheezy bronchitis and a family history of croup.
(3) The risk factors for wheezy bronchitis were the same as for infections, indicating that wheezy bronchitis is closely related to infections.
(4) The effect of nebulised salbutamol on the bronchial response to nebulised histamine was studied in five wheezy infants aged 3-12 months.
(5) The effect of an oral slow-release aminophylline preparation (Phyllocontin Continus tablets) in preventing early morning reduction in airway calibre was measured in two groups of asthmatic patients; Group I consisted of eight stable asthmatics whose main complaint was nocturnal wheeziness, and Group II comprised four severe asthmatics studied during the period of recovery from an acute exacerbation of asthma.
(6) The sex ratio of asthmatic and wheezy children was very similar in the two countries.
(7) A 9-month-old girl with 4 months history of recurrent wheezy bronchitis, dysphagia and pneumonia, had impacted, radiolucent oesophageal foreign body (nipple).
(8) Forty-eight wheezy infants were followed up for 25 to 44 months.
(9) Respirosonography provides a noninvasive method for objective clinical assessment of young, wheezy children.
(10) These observations suggest that under conditions of forced expiration intrathoracic airways function may be further impaired by nebulised bronchodilator treatment in wheezy infants.
(11) The results of the present study raise serious doubts about the advisability of sedation with chloral hydrate, in the currently used doses, in wheezy infants.
(12) The response of the bronchi to nebulised salbutamol was measured in five recurrently wheezy infants.
(13) Those with perennial rhinitis were more likely to have past or current eczema or migraine, be wheezy or labelled asthmatic, or have a family history of nose trouble other than hayfever.
(14) After multiple logistic regression analysis was used to control for paternal smoking, social status, sex, family allergy, crowding, breast-feeding, gas cooking and heating, and bedroom dampness, the association of maternal smoking with childhood wheezy bronchitis persisted.
(15) While no effect on respiratory function has been demonstrated, a recent study has reported a fall in oxygen saturation (SaO2) following sedation in wheezy infants.
(16) A virus was isolated in 146 (26.4%) of 554 episodes of wheezy bronchitis, rhinoviruses accounting for almost half of the isolations.
(17) Lower airway responses to nebulised bronchodilators were studied in 18 chronically or recurrently wheezy infants, aged 3-15 months, by means of partial forced expiratory flow-volume manoeuvres performed with an inflatable jacket.
(18) Children consulting trainers for recurrent wheezy chest after those doctors had set a standard for that condition improved both in drug compliance (79% (n = 33) before standard setting v 93% (30) after) and mean number of days of breathlessness (3.8 (SE 1.0) before v 1.7 (0.6) after) and wheeziness (4.7 (0.9) before v 1.8 (0.6) after), compared with those consulting doctors who had not (compliance 74% (144) before v 72% (146) after; breathlessness 2.4 (0.4) before v 2.3 (0.3) after; wheeziness 3.0 (0.4) before v 2.7 (0.4) after).
(19) Fourteen months later the recurrence of wheeziness attacks--that is, asthma--was investigated.
(20) It is effective in conjunction with beta-agonists in acute severe childhood asthma and has an important role in the management of wheezy infants and in chronic lung disease of prematurity (bronchopulmonary dysplasia).