Asthma Attack Breathalyzer

Feb-16-11 A new Siemens sensor can tell hours in advance if someone will get an asthma attack, by analyzing the patient's breath.

The cell phone sized device is able to detect nitric oxide, an asthma attack marker, at parts per billion. The sensor can detect nitric oxide increases one day before an attack occurs, which enables the patient to take medication in time to prevent the attack.

Generally in asthma sufferers the latent inflammation of the bronchial tubes spreads before the patients actually feel anything, eventually causing the air passages to constrict and the patient to have an asthma attack, some so serious that the patient must be treated in the hospital.

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