Qualifying for SSDI with Asthma

Asthma is a hazardous ailment that affects around 25 million Americans each year and leads in nearly 1.6 million trips to the emergency room. With counselling, you can live a regular life. Without it, you may have to visit the ER or stay in the hospital on a regular basis, which can disrupt your daily life.

How Does SSA view Asthma?

Asthma is a chronic inflammatory lung disease that makes breathing difficult by narrowing or restricting the airways. Severe asthma can make it difficult to speak or move around. It could be referred to as a chronic respiratory illness by your doctor. Some people refer to asthma as "bronchial asthma."

When a healthy person takes deep breaths, the airways relax. When an asthmatic exhales deeply, his or her airways commonly constrict or spasm. When the Asthmatic patient's airways contract, he or she gets breathless, wheezes, and occasionally gasps for air.

There are two types of asthma attacks: chronic and acute. Chronic asthma is frequently connected with allergies, chronic asthmatic bronchitis, emphysema, or COPD. The duration and intensity of the attacks also vary, with some persons having Asthma bouts lasting several days.

Asthma is classified into two stages:

• - Inflammatory reaction hyperreactive response
• - The muscles of a person's airways constrict in reaction to an outside irritation in the hyper-reactive response.

The inflammatory response is initiated by the immune system, which causes the airways to expand, fill with fluid, and produce sticky mucus. Asthmatics are particularly vulnerable to everyday environmental factors such as cold air, dust, pollution, routine activity, and even psychological stress as a result of chronic inflammation.

Social Security Administration is aware of the difficulties an asthma patient faces in their daily living.

Asthma is considered a handicap under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Social Security Administration (SSA). If you suffer from asthma and are unable to work, the Social Security Administration will consider you disabled and you may be eligible for Social Security disability benefits.

For the SSA to evaluate your asthma impairment, you must meet both the occupational and medical criteria. You must have earned enough work credits during your career to meet the work criteria.

Your age and the number of years you have worked are utilised to compute your labour credits. You can earn up to four work credits every year you work.

You must also meet the following criteria for the SSA to consider your asthma a disability.

The Blue Book is a compilation of variables that qualify for Social Security disability compensation. The Social Security Administration classifies asthma as a disability and includes it in the Blue Book.

If you meet the criteria for the asthma listing in the Blue Book, you will be considered disabled by the Social Security Administration and will be eligible for Social Security disability benefits.

Qualifying for SSDI with Asthma

Because asthma-like symptoms can be caused by a number of different conditions, a physician must not only take note of a patient's reported symptoms, but also do a thorough review of medical history and a detailed physical exam, which may include a lung function test called spirometry.

Spirometry determines how much air you can intake and expel in one second. The doctor will then prescribe Asthma medication based on the results of this test. If your test results improve significantly, you may be diagnosed with Asthma.

Even if your lung strength improves with treatment, your doctor may order more tests if he or she suspects you have Asthma. Among these tests are:

• - An exhaled nitric oxide test (high levels of nitric oxide can indicate inflamed airways) or a
• - Challenge test, in which the doctor attempts to elicit asthmatic symptoms and, if successful, retests you with spirometry to determine whether your scores reduce.

Among the asthma symptoms that are usually exacerbated at night are:

• - Breathing difficulty
• - Coughing
• - Frequent wheezing,
• - Shortness of breath, and
• - Chest tightness

For therapy, an inhaler or oral medication is utilised. Most asthma medications work by reducing and then controlling inflammation or relaxing airway spasms. Inhaled drugs (often steroids) have an immediate impact on the airway surface and are not absorbed by the asthmatic. As a result, inhaled drugs are typically favoured over oral drugs.

Filing for Social Security Disability Due to Asthma

Section 3.03 of the Social Security Administration (SSA) Blue Book describes asthma. Section 3.00 deals with respiratory problems. The SSA bases its assessment of the severity of your condition, as it does for all conditions, on your ability to perform daily tasks, the limitations imposed by your symptoms (including pain), and the extent to which any ongoing treatment affects you.

For more information, you can seek legal help from our expert Social Security Attorneys at the Law Office of Irene Ruzin.