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In asthma,
• There is an intensification of normal functions of the airways, such as muscle tension and
inhalation: there is a functional hypertrophy on a local level
• A normal function, such as awareness, shifts with asthma from the nerve-sensory system to
the respiratory tract: there is a functional dislocation
• Processes withdraw from the normal organization and phasing in time; they appear
too early or too late, they slow down or speed up, as is the case in the persistence
of the inflammation phase in asthma: the process withdraws from its normal time
line.
5.2. The Disrupted Homeostasis in Pneumonia
In pneumonia, homeostasis is temporarily disturbed (fig. 3.5.).
Pathophysiological Processes in Pneumonia
Metabolizing foreign substances, regulating body temperature, and excreting waste
products are normal physiological processes that become pathological symptoms in
pneumonia and its related diseases described in Chapter 4.
The fever that occurs in pneumonia is connected to a generalized intensification of
metabolic processes. An explosively extended and intensified cleansing process is active
to clear the airways of the increased number of bacteria and the exudate. The anabolism
and catabolism of foreign substances, processes that belong primarily in the digestive
tract, are shifted to the respiratory tract. The course of the infectious process prolongs the
inflammatory phase of the healing process.
In pneumonia,
• Normal processes which are part of temperature regulation and immune response
increase in intensity: there is local functional hypertrophy
• Metabolic processes shift from the intestines to the respiratory tract: there is a functional
dislocation