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Play the role of the respiratory therapist and explain to Melissa what is happening inside her body during an asthma attack

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the lung muscles contract becoming tighter and giving less space for air to travel its like a muscle spasm ....i would know i have asthma

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The muscles in her airway are tightening causing it to be hard for her to breath. Also her airway becomes swollen or even inflamed.
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