How does asthma affect the lungs?
when you get an asthma attack you have to be exposed to an irritant which causes inflammation in the broncholes. Because of this inflammation your body produces extra mucous which creates mucous plugging and then you ge bronchospasm which decreases the size of the broncholes which creates the wheezing sound when an asthmatic exhales. With this decrease broncholes the body is unable to exhale air in the lungs which becomes trapped. After a while the pressure can build up to a point where you cant breathe any you could have a pneumothorax which could become a tension pneumothorax and with that put pressure on the heart and go in to cardiac arrest.
