Keeping the use of medications to a minimum – or not using them at all – is often a choice women make when they become pregnant. But this is not always possible, nor wise. Acute asthma is a case in…
Asthma
Asthma (bronchial asthma) is a chronic allergic disease that affects mainly the respiratory tract of a person. A patient suffers from asthma recurrent attacks of breathlessness, which helps to remove the designated agents for this purpose.
Asthmatic attacks can be mild, moderate or severe. Usually asthmatics start coughing; they experience difficulty while breathing and the provision of glassy mucus.
Treatment of asthma is carried out in several directions. Medications for treating asthma can be divided into several groups. The first group includes drugs for emergency use in case of attack. They have properties that enhance the bronchi’s and are used as “first aid”. Some people believe that asthma’s treatment should be done only by this medication. But this is a wrong belief – they only facilitate the flow of attack, without eliminating the main causes of the disease. The second group of drugs is intended for the prevention of attacks. They relieve allergic inflammation and are selected individually for each case of the disease, taking into account the characteristics of the patient. These drugs are basic and necessary for each patient.
Treatment of asthma, except for pharmaceuticals, includes spa treatments – special complex of physical therapy and massage. All this is intended to normalize the drainage function of bronchi and proper operation of the endocrine system. Due to the exercise therapy, the patient’s body adapts to physical stress. Through this work the cardiovascular system and breathing process improve, and the immunity to infectious diseases increases. It also optimizes the processes of excitation and inhibition of the central nervous system, strengthens the respiratory muscles. Massage can speed up the treatment of asthma. It improves blood circulation and lymph flow within the body and the body is at the good preparation before a session of physiotherapy.
Is asthma preventable?
In an individual who has been diagnosed with asthma, the focus of contemporary treatment emphasizes prevention of symptoms such as breathlessness, chest discomfort, cough, mucus production, and wheezing. Certain asthma medications, sometimes referred to as “controller medicine,” are designed and…
How to avoid asthma triggers
To help prevent an asthma attack, it’s important to identify your triggers and avoid them. Here are some common triggers and ways to avoid them: Allergens, such as dust, mold, pollen, or animals Avoid these allergens by doing the dusting,…
What causes asthma?
Asthma has no single, easily identified cause. Multiple Asthma has no causes and the interaction of several factors may be single, easily necessary to cause the disease. Studies have implicated identified a familial component. The tendency to develop asthma cause…
Human Cardiac Mast Cells and Their Role in Severe Allergic Reactions
Although great strides have been made in the treatment of bronchial asthma, asthma-associated mortality is increasing in many countries. The first record of asthma dates back 30 centuries, but it is only during recent decades that systematic attempts have been…
T Lymphocytes in Chronic Asthma
Up to the mid-1980s there was a fairly general consensus that the mast cell was central in the pathophysiology of asthma. In 1983 on the occasion of the Third International Symposium on Asthma, it was suggested that ‘perhaps asthma is…
Advair diskus
Generic name: Fluticasone-salmeterol Brand names: Advair Diskus General Information Advair (Salmeterol / Fluticasone) is a corticoid and bronchodilator compounding. It is prescribed to heal and prevent or curtail the signs of asthma (i.e. crackling, painful respiration), and also lung…
Air Pollution and Asthma
The prevalence of asthma, frequency of acute exacerbations of asthma, and sensitization to antigens have all been increasing throughout the past decade. Researchers have proposed that this trend may be related to concurrent increases in air pollution. In fact, many…
What is the contemporary view of asthma, and how does it differ from traditional views?
For many years, asthma was viewed as a disease of airway narrowing, or bronchoconstriction. In the traditional view, the bronchial passages, especially those encircled by specialized muscle fibers, became narrowed or constricted, and an inevitable “attack” would follow. The traditional…
Pathophysiology
Asthma affects more than 15 million adults in the United States. The incidence of asthma has risen in the past few decades. It is a significant health concern and a tremendous economic burden in modern societies. In this chapter we…