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What are the effects of excessive smoke inhalation for someone with asthma?

More specifically, what would happen to said individual if they were in a house fire? Would there be long term effects, perhaps life threatening ones? I've looked up the symptoms for smoke inhalation, and it mentioned that shortness of breath and headaches were one. Are these apparent only immediately?Any more information regarding house fires or asthma is appreciated. Thank you.

Answer:

The first thing you need to do is make sure you are getting enough sleep. If you are sleeping through an alarm clock, it could be because you are just too tired to hear it. Plan on getting at least six hours of sleep before the alarm will go off, but closer to eight hours is better. Next, how loud is the alarm clock? Some alarms just aren't that loud, or have a poor sound quality. You may need a louder alarm clock. And last, where do you place the alarm in your room? If you have it too close to the bed, it makes it very easy to turn off without getting out of the bed and increases the risk that you will just turn it off in your sleep and not actually wake up enough to get up. All of the things I mentioned have been issues I had in the past. I had one alarm clock that was just the wrong sounding tone and did not disturb my sleep at all and I used to keep my clock beside the bed until I discovered that I was shutting off the alarm in my sleep. (I kept thinking I forgot to set it until someone asked me why I never got up if I had set an alarm.)
LOL my husband's alarm irritates me cause it's so loud.. no volume control like his old one. If my husband gets enough sleep, he'll wake and be able to shut it off just before it would go off. But if not, it wakes me.. Then I'm wide awake for at least half an hour or more. Which really stinks since I have insomnia most nights anyways. (Only a couple things cures that insomnia..lol But then that's why he doesn't get enough sleep.. I can't winlol)

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