Asthma - What It Is, Causes, Symptoms and Treatments and More
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- Опубліковано 26 чер 2024
- What is asthma?
Asthma is a chronic (long-term) lung disease. It affects your airways, the tubes that carry air in and out of your lungs. When you have asthma, your airways can become inflamed and narrowed. This can cause wheezing, coughing, and tightness in your chest. When these symptoms get worse than usual, it is called an asthma attack or flare-up.
What causes asthma?
The exact cause of asthma is unknown. Genetics and your environment likely play a role in who gets asthma.
An asthma attack can happen when you are exposed to an asthma trigger. An asthma trigger is something that can set off or worsen your asthma symptoms. Different triggers can cause different types of asthma:
Allergic asthma is caused by allergens. Allergens are substances that cause an allergic reaction. They can include
Dust mites
Mold
Pets
Pollen from grass, trees, and weeds
Waste from pests such as cockroaches and mice
Nonallergic asthma is caused by triggers that are not allergens, such as
Breathing in cold air
Certain medicines
Household chemicals
Infections such as colds and the flu
Outdoor air pollution
Tobacco smoke
Occupational asthma is caused by breathing in chemicals or industrial dusts at work
Exercise-induced asthma happens during physical exercise, especially when the air is dry
Asthma triggers may be different for each person and can change over time.
Who is at risk for asthma?
Asthma affects people of all ages, but it often starts during childhood. Certain factors can raise your risk of having asthma:
Being exposed to secondhand smoke when your mother is pregnant with you or when you are a small child
Being exposed to certain substances at work, such as chemical irritants or industrial dusts
Genetics and family history. You are more likely to have asthma if one of your parents has it, especially if it's your mother.
Race or ethnicity. Black and African Americans and Puerto Ricans are at higher risk of asthma than people of other races or ethnicities.
Having other diseases or conditions such as obesity and allergies
Often having viral respiratory infections as a young child
Sex. In children, asthma is more common in boys. In teens and adults, it is more common in women.
What are the symptoms of asthma?
The symptoms of asthma include:
Chest tightness
Coughing, especially at night or early morning
Shortness of breath
Wheezing, which causes a whistling sound when you breathe out
These symptoms can range from mild to severe. You may have them every day or only once in a while.
When you are having an asthma attack, your symptoms get much worse. The attacks may come on gradually or suddenly. Sometimes they can be life-threatening. They are more common in people who have severe asthma. If you are having asthma attacks, you may need a change in your treatment.
How is asthma diagnosed?
What are the treatments for asthma?
If you have asthma, you will work with your health care provider to create a treatment plan. The plan will include ways to manage your asthma symptoms and prevent asthma attacks. It will include:
Strategies to avoid triggers. For example, if tobacco smoke is a trigger for you, you should not smoke or allow other people to smoke in your home or car.
Short-term relief medicines, also called quick-relief medicines. They help prevent symptoms or relieve symptoms during an asthma attack. They include an inhaler to carry with you all the time. It may also include other types of medicines which work quickly to help open your airways.
Control medicines. You take them every day to help prevent symptoms. They work by reducing airway inflammation and preventing narrowing of the airways.
If you have a severe attack and the short-term relief medicines do not work, you will need emergency care.
Your provider may adjust your treatment until asthma symptoms are controlled.
Sometimes asthma is severe and cannot be controlled with other treatments. If you are an adult with uncontrolled asthma, in some cases your provider might suggest bronchial thermoplasty. This is a procedure that uses heat to shrink the smooth muscle in the lungs. Shrinking the muscle reduces your airway's ability to tighten and allows you to breathe more easily. The procedure has some risks, so it's important to discuss them with your provider.
Make sure you test for (IgE and eosinophils) strongyloids - there should be as many as 10 tests over about a two week period. Its a simple treatment but does take up to a year with disseminated strongyloids. I found out that is what I had after over 30 years dealing with inhalers, antibiotics, and xolair shots. I am still on a monthly treatment after doing a 30 day straight treatment. I am now on NAC and curcumin. Once in awhile I have to use albuterol - my lungs are still healing. BUT I AM HEALING AND NOT GETTING ASTHMA ATTACKS OR CONSTANT THICK MUCUS IN MY LUNGS ANY MORE..
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Thank you so much for this information.
They didn’t include perfumes and fragrances which are big triggers for asthma
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I would like to let you know that I have a touch of asthma and when I have gone to my doctor and told him that I have been doing a whole lot of coughing and they had me to take a breathing test and they told me that I have a touch of asthma and I had respiratory problems every since I was a baby. And I have come down with a touch of asthma at the age 32
I found out my childs asthma is triggered my eating sugar! It can be caused by so many things
Asthma does not occur all the time since year 2020
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