What is Asthma?

Asthma is a type of lung disease that results from inflammation and respiratory tract . People who have asthma will show some signs or specific symptoms. The signs can be noted, respiratory sounds like someone whistling, especially when it breathes patients breath. This is called a “wiz” which sounded repeatedly. But some are not experiencing wiz, but having a cough, especially at night or after physical exercise.

Sometimes a cough is experienced constantly for more than a week. In addition, patients will feel shortness of breath and chest feels tight. In certain cases, there is asthma that can not be arrested because there are many difficult mucus expelled.

Number of patients estimated 80 percent of asthma experienced by children and 50 percent of adults.

Experienced an asthma attack is not the same in every individual. There is only a slight sense of shortness of breath while others may experience severe shortness of breath every day. Some pesakit asthma who experienced it in a short period, but there is also the experience continues for several days. In addition there are patients experienced an alarming situation, but others just have a bit of trouble breathing sometimes.

This situation indicates that asthma is a kind of disease, and this uncertainty is not directly explain why asthma is difficult understood. However, educational programs provided by the government and included in the health website on the internet seems to be enough to help educate asthma active life in order to perform daily activities at work, school, at home or anywhere else without much interference.

How Asthma Happen?

Actually people will asthma can not be ascertained. However, the obvious is, an asthma attack occurs when there is a change in the respiratory tract. The changes are intended to inflammation or swelling which in turn lead to respiratory furl and sensitive to external stimuli.

Changes That Occurred In Asthma

Tiub inflammation in the airways become irritated easily, become swollen and looks red. Furthermore the thick mucus will be produced and obstruct the airways. Patient asthma will start coughing when he tried to clear a blocked airway is. If inflammation occurs and it is often heavy, will thicken the airway permanently. This will cause patients difficult to breathe.

Buds: The muscles surrounding the airways may cause furl and airways become narrow. This situation is called bronkospasme or bronchoconstriction. Patients will taste her chest.
Sensitive: very sensitive respiratory channels of external objects such as dust, cigarette smoke, or cold air.

When is asthma will happen?

Asthma will occur if an individual has “wiz” repeatedly, especially when exhaled breath, chronic cough or bronchitis repeatedly experienced.

The disease can be passed with asthma symptoms mentioned above, along with the size of inhibiting respiratory spirometer can be restored by the drug beta-2 agonists are inhaled through the mouth and oral corticosteroid therapy high dos for five to ten days.

Does Do’s to help person with Asthma?

The approach often taken in treating the inflammation of asthma patients, penguncupan and respiratory sensitivity.

To help patients asthma is to remove him from dust, cigarette smoke and so on. In addition patients may also use preventive medicine as kotikosteroid, cromolyn and ketotifen and immune therapy.

The second step is to use bronchodilators drugs are drugs that attempt to develop and relieve respiratory tract patient quickly as Theophylline (which has the nature of caffeine), beta agonists and ipratropium. These medications are used when appropriate asthma attack has occurred. Most cases, people who want to help the situation patients do not know how to handle that becomes too serious asthma, where patients to receive further treatment in hospital for a corticosteroid in the form of injections and oxygen therapy with the help of a particular respirator.

In determining the appropriate treatment, should be reminded asthma is a disease of rapid change and may be made worse by environmental changes, such as changes in weather or season, or the outbreak of the virus. In such case, each considered unique patients asthma and received treatment may depend on individual circumstances.

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