What is asthma? Detailed answer

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What is asthma?

Asthma is not a disease per se, but a symptom of a number of other body disorders. In asthma, a person has difficulty breathing due to problems with the passage of air in and out of the lungs. The passage of air is hampered by inflammation of the mucous membrane or organs connecting the windpipe and lung.

During an asthma attack, a person develops shortness of breath, wheezing, coughing. The attack can be both sudden and develop gradually. The only way to get rid of asthma is to find the cause and eliminate it. The reasons may be different: allergies, emotional shock or weather conditions.

If asthma develops in a person before the age of 30, the cause is usually an allergy. The patient may be sensitive to pollen, to dust, to food, to drugs, to animals. There are many types of dust and pollen that can trigger asthma. In children, asthma is especially often caused by an allergy to food: eggs, milk or flour products. According to doctors, asthma often develops due to strong emotional unrest - for example, due to family quarrels, financial troubles, and other things.

Often emotional anxiety is caused by a feeling of own uselessness, unrequited love. These sensations set off a chain reaction that eventually ends in an asthma attack. This is why a doctor's diagnosis in determining the cause of asthma is very important. It will require a complete and thorough analysis of the patient's medical history, a variety of questions about eating habits, lifestyle, environment. And if even slight deviations from the usual way of life are revealed in the patient, the doctor will be able to determine the cause of the asthma attack.

An attack can happen after visiting acquaintances who keep animals of a certain breed, after visiting the beach or eating new foods. For people with asthma, a doctor often prescribes a special diet.

Author: Likum A.

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When were dry pretzels first baked?

Dry pretzels don't look like biscuits or croquettes in shape or taste, but they actually all look alike in many ways. All of them are small and crispy, do not spoil for a long time. They are even baked on the same machines and packaged in the same way. Special bakeries produce all three types of products with slight changes in the recipe and baking method. They are baked from the same ingredients - flour, yeast, sugar and liquid. Typically, yeast in such products is replaced with baking soda. It forms carbon dioxide, which gives the products lightness without requiring the dough to rise.

Dry pretzels have a long history. It takes us back to the first Christians in the Roman Empire. Pretzels were used at that time only because of religion. Fat, milk, and eggs were forbidden to eat during Lent, and people ate dry pretzels instead of bread. And only in our time they have become popular as a light snack. In Northern Europe and the Scandinavian countries, the pretzel has become a symbol of the baker. An image of a large golden pretzel is commonly seen in every bakery. The original pretzel was twisted, soft on the inside and crusty on the outside.

With modern baking, nearly all of the moisture evaporates, leaving a crispy, firm pretzel. It is actually a salty hard biscuit. Incidentally, the word "biscuit" comes from the ancient French word for "twice-baked".

In the Middle Ages, French travelers, soldiers and sailors took strange hard bread with them. It was baked twice to keep it from spoiling. This hard bread is what we call a biscuit or biscuit. When we buy cookies today, we see that they are packaged so that they do not absorb moisture and are crispy, as if they had just come out of the oven.

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