Question

A 12-year-old girl is brought to the Emergency Room (ER) by her mother with complaints of shortness of breath, wheezing, tachypnea, tachycardia, and a non-productive cough. . The child was diagnosed with asthma. The nurse practitioner explained to the mother that her child was exhibiting symptoms of asthma, and probably had an early asthmatic response and a late asthmatic response.

Explain early and late asthmatic responses and the cells responsible for the responses.

Answer 1

The inhalation of allergen by patient in which there is allergic asthama may create early asthmatic response .

In this first symptom that occur is blocked airway but it last for 1-2 hours later on it change to late asthamtic response

For early asthmatic response cell which are reaponsible are mast cells they start producing mediator and thus causing change in the airway .

For late asthamtic response - the mediators of mast cell they induce chemotatic recruitment and activation of neutroohils and eosinophils