Asthma, A Chronic Sickness And Its Control

Asthma is a chronic sickness that involves respiratory system where airway occasionally become inflamed and lined with excess amount of mucus that is often in response to one or more triggers. Asthma is also a disease of the branches of the long or airways that carries air in and out of the lungs. It causes the airway to be narrow, the lining of the airways to swell and the cells that line around it to produce more mucus.

This airway narrowing causes coughing, shortness of breath and chest tightness. Most patients feel well and ok but can have mild symptoms and also remain short of breath after exercise for a long period time but a normal or unaffected person doesn’t experience such.

Anyone with asthma becomes worst when exposed to any environmental stimulatant such as exertion, cold air, warm air, emotional stress etc. But in children, it is a different thing because they are only allergic to common cold.

As an asthma patient, if your symptom becomes worse than usual, know that you are experiencing asthma attack and this makes the muscles around the airway to tighten up making the airways narrower that less airflow can pass through it. The airways become more swollen and inflammation increases and this makes it harder for you to breathe.

Though the symptom of asthma that ranges from mild to life threatening may seem to be uncontrollable, there are still some combinations of drugs and also environmental changes that can control.

One thing you should understand is that asthma attacks differs from one patient to the other, some may be worse than others but in a severe asthma attack, the airways are closed so much that no enough oxygen gets into the vital organs. In this case people can die so to avoid this, medical emergency and attention is needed to keep you going.