Bronchial Asthma Disease II
Symptoms of the disease:
• severe cough accompanied by whistles, because the access of air to the lungs is reduced, there is increased production of mucus and thus contraction of the airways.
• Tightness in the chest.
• Difficulty breathing and speaking.
• Sweating when efforts are made to breathe, sise has a coughing fit.
Diagnosis of Illness:
• The doctor takes into account symptoms, perform a medical history, physical examination the patient practice and makes some laboratory tests may include chest radiograph, blood tests and lung function.
• It is also conducting a study to measure the air that you breathe in and out, with the help of a device called a spirometer, which records changes in breathing and can help the doctor determine whether a patient has asthma.
• The sensitization tests are useful to identify which patients are allergic, which consist in drawing a “map” of substances that are most likely to generate an asthma attack.
Prevention of Illness:
• Avoid contact with irritants that could clog airways.
• Keep the house clean and places of work or study.
• Avoid contact with animals.
• Do not put carpet in the bedroom and in the spaces in which to stay long.
• Drink plenty of water.
• Asthma is improved if you live in places where the air is cleaner.
• No smoking.
• Because the anxiety and stress can cause an asthma attack, it is necessary to control these emotional states, which can be used for a natural tranquilizer and herbal infusions.
Treatment of Illness:
• Avoid contact with the elements that cause allergies.
• Antihistamines may prevent and relieve symptoms.
• Regularly required bronchodilators to prevent and to have an asthma attack.
• Its function is to relax the airway muscles so that they are cleared and facilitate the entry of air.
• You should stop smoking, to this end are good snuff deshabituantes of auxiliaries, provided that no case of inhalers.
• The cough can be controlled with some antitussives or expectorants counter, which also helps to expel secretions from the bronchi obstructing breathing channels.