Sentence examples for blocked airways from inspiring English sources

In broad strokes, a cough is the body's response to an irritant, or an attempt to rid the body of that irritant, or to open up blocked airways.

For instance, a drug that blocks one kind of leukotriene may prevent blocked airways but have no effect on itchy eyes.

Because coughing is an important defense mechanism in clearing secretions from blocked airways, a productive cough (one that produces secretions) should not be suppressed.

It worked with biologists to identify the physiological conditions of asthma, such as blocked airways and inflamed bronchial tissue, working their way down to reactions at the molecular level.

Khepri's bronchial infection had created postural drainage, and subsequently blocked airways.

In some cases, the dog could pass out from blocked airways.

Her primary-care doctor told her she had stridor, an abnormal high-pitched sound that typically indicates a partially blocked airway.

His parents learned to restrain him as he convulsed in his bed, sometimes ten to twenty times a day, and to take measures to prevent him from biting his tongue, or choking from a blocked airway.

This includes nearly 900 people who choke to death, 2,500 who asphyxiate from a blocked airway and 29,000 who die from heart attacks.

On another, she is seized by the fear that her uncertain diagnosis of a blocked airway will prove groundless and that the surgery she has recommended will simply highlight her incompetence.

Brain fitness programs typically check for underlying causes of sleep loss, such as a medication side effect, sleep apnea (when a blocked airway during sleep causes you to stop breathing periodically), or an overactive bladder that interrupts sleep for trips to the bathroom.