Let us talk about Asthma

As Summer season is ending, I noticed there is a lot of asthma flare ups and it is not the fall and winter ye. Usually during those season that hospitals are busy taking care of people who have respiratory problems like Asthma.

Asthma is a chronic respiratory condition the airway gets swollen and narrowed thereby causing difficulty of breathing. If prompt treatment is severely delayed, it can cause death. Causative factors can be genetics, it can run in the family. It is also a type of allergy, trigger factors can be environment i.e. pollen,dust,cigarette smoke., animal dander etc.

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Medication wise, depending upon the severity of your condition. Doctors prescribed maintenance steroidal inhalers and rescue inhaler like Albuterol. Signs and symptoms of asthma can vary from shortness of breathing to difficulty breathing, wheezing, coughing, cannot do usual activities and so forth. If the rescue medicine is not helping at all, a trip to the emergency is necessary or call 911 for emergent situation.

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I know somebody who have asthma and he tried his best to avoid the factors that trigger his asthma e.g. some animals like horse, cats and dogs, dust and even cigarette smokes. He beat cigarette smoking fours years ago and never once he regret his decision. He found other way to channel his stress. I couldn't be prouder of him.

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