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Medical News | Medical Articles: Monitoring Asthma with FeNO

	October 2, 2019
	Children's Health
	The latest pediatrics news from News Medical

Monitoring Asthma with FeNO

When an asthma attack occurs, the bronchial tubes become inflamed restricting the airways and eventually reducing the flow of air into and out of the lungs. The human body produces nitric oxide (NO) to help fight inflammation, and when the airway becomes inflamed NO is generated in the lungs and then exhaled on the breath. FeNO can be utilized as a non-invasive biomarker of airway inflammation.

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