Handling Asthmatic Students in the Dissection Hall

Abstract

Asthma, one of the leading chronic diseases, has a high prevalence among young adults or adolescents. Students with the asthmatic attack have been reported to miss several days in school which often leads to an increasing rate of absenteeism in school, hospital visitation, morbidity, and mortality. Asthma attacks have also been revealed to have some psychological effect on those having them. There are many things that do trigger asthma attacks and one of them is formaldehyde that is the chief embalming chemical used in many medical schools. One major problem is how to handle a situation when the choice of one's career is being surrounded by triggers that can lead to an asthma attack. This paper discusses some of the measures to be taken to avoid any form of an asthma attack in the course of study, especially in the human anatomy dissecting hall.