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Asthma (AZ-muh) is a chronic disease that affects your airways, which are the tubes that carry air in and out of your lungs. If you have asthma, the inside walls of your airways are inflamed (swollen). The inflammation (IN-fla-MAY-shun) makes the airways very sensitive, and they tend to react strongly to things to which you are allergic or find irritating. When the airways react, they get narrower and less air flows through to your lung tissues. This causes symptoms like wheezing (a whistling sound when you breathe), coughing, chest tightness, and trouble breathing.
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Asthma treatment is generally a combination of avoiding things that bring on your asthma symptoms or make symptoms worse, and using asthma medicines.
There are two main types of medicines for asthma: 1. Quick Relief medicines give rapid, short-term treatment and are taken when you have worsening asthma symptoms that can lead to asthma episodes or attacks. You will feel the effects of these medicines within minutes. 2. Long-term Control medicines are taken every day, usually over long periods of time, to control chronic symptoms and to prevent asthma episodes or attacks. You will feel the full effects of these medicines after taking them for a few weeks. People with persistent asthma need long-term control medicines.
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Yoga & Relaxation Techniques - Breathing exercises used in yoga have been found to help some people with asthma control breathing and relieve stress, a common asthma trigger.
Buteyko technique - The Buteyko technique is a system of breathing exercises and behavioral changes intended to improve health by changing the balance of oxygen and carbon dioxide in exhaled air. Diet - Restricting dairy products and sugar has reportedly helped some children with asthma. Acupuncture - Some people with asthma have found that acupuncture can significantly reduce asthma attacks and improve lung function. Biofeedback - Learning to increase the amount of air inhaled has reduced fear and anxiety during an asthma attack for some asthmatics.
Herbal Medicines - Herbal medicines have proven effective for some asthmatics.
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... When you have asthma, any infection – a cold, virus, flu – can affect the lungs causing inflammation and bronchconstriction. It is important to take measures to stay healthy and be aware of any lung s...
Source: Cleveland Clinic
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Source: Cleveland Clinic
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... The best way to prevent asthma attacks is to identify and avoid indoor and outdoor allergens and irritants. That''s easier said than done because thousands of outdoor allergens and irritants — r...
Source: MayoClinic
Prevention ... The best way to prevent asthma attacks is to identify and avoid indoor and outdoor allergens and irritants. That''s easier said than done because thousands of outdoor allergens and irritants — r...
Source: MayoClinic
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... It is estimated that more than 75 percent of patients with asthma also experience gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). People with asthma are twice as likely to have GERD as those people who do not...
Source: Cleveland Clinic
How to Use Your Diskus Dry Powder Inhaler (DPI) ... Some asthma medications can be taken in the form of a dry powder using a small, hand-held device called a dry powder inhaler (DPI). Dry powder inhalers deliver medication to the lungs as you inhale th...
Source: Cleveland Clinic
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... Asthma presents many physical challenges, but it can also cause other kinds of distress. You may sometimes become frustrated, angry or depressed because you need to cut back on your usual activities, ...
Source: MayoClinic
Stress and Asthma ... Stress is a common asthma trigger. Stress and anxiety sometimes make you feel short of breath and may cause your asthma symptoms to become worse. You cannot avoid stress; it is part of daily life. How...
Source: Cleveland Clinic
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... By monitoring their symptoms and practicing self-management, people who have asthma can live free of asthma symptoms. An important part of learning to control asthma is keeping a daily asthma diary. T...
Source: Cleveland Clinic
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... About ten million Americans suffer the wheezing, chest tightness, and breathing difficulty that typifies asthma. Doctors call it an episodic disease because in most asthmatics acute attacks alternate ...
Source: HealthWorld
Childhood Asthma ... A lot of children get asthma. Most children grow out of it after they are teenagers. Children under 4 years old hardly ever get asthma. These are all symptoms of asthma: Wheezing Tight feeling in the ...
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A Time to Heal:
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... by Isadora Stehlin How our bodies marshal defenses against disease depends on many factors, such as age, gender and genetics. Recently, the role of our bodies' biological rhythms in fighting disea...
Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Asthma ... The wheeze of asthma is caused by contraction of the muscular walls of the small breathing tubes in the lung. The narrowed air tube creates a ''turbulent'' air flow and therefore causes a wheeze, or w...
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Asthma Articles
- Allergy and Asthma Resources
... AIR FILTERING DEVICES Environmental Protection Agency Ariel Rios Building 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20460 (202) 272-0167 http://www.epa.gov ALLERGIC SKIN DISEASES National Institute ... - Allergy Statistics
... Each year more than 50 million Americans suffer from allergic diseases[1]. Allergies are the 6th leading cause of chronic disease in the United States, costing the health care system $18 billion annua... - Asthma
... Asthma (AZ-muh) is a chronic disease that affects your airways, which are the tubes that carry air in and out of your lungs. If you have asthma, the inside walls of your airways are inflamed (swollen)... - Controlling Asthma
... by Ken Flieger Think of someone--a child or an adult--racked by uncontrolled coughing. With a heaving, distended chest, neck muscles straining, and eyes showing alarm verging on panic, the person can ... - Food Allergy and Intolerances
... Food allergies or food intolerances affect nearly everyone at some point. People often have an unpleasant reaction to something they ate and wonder if they have a food allergy. One out of three people... - Genes and Disease: Asthma
... Asthma affects more than 5% of the population of the US, including children. It is a chronic inflammatory disorder of the airways characterized by coughing, shortness of breath, and chest tightness. A... - How to Create a Dust-Free Bedroom
... If you are dust-sensitive, especially if you have allergies and/or asthma, you can reduce some of your misery by creating a "dust-free" bedroom. Dust may contain molds, fibers, and dander from dogs, c... - Preguntas frecuentes acerca del asma
... El asma es una enfermedad crónica de los pulmones. Su asma puede ser ligera o grave. Si tiene asma es posible que tenga tos fuerte, sibilancias, una sensación de presión en el pecho y dificultad al re...
Resources
- A Peak Flow Meter (Cleveland Clinic)
- A Time to Heal: Chronotherapy Tunes In to Body's Rhythms (U.S. Food and Drug Administration)