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Treatment Of Asthma
Asthma is a frequent cause of absenteeism from school and work, preventing sleep and causes fatigue. Deaths from asthma are relatively few, but severe cases of asthma present a serious impediment to a normal life. The patient with asthma should follow the treatment virtually all life to keep the disease controlled.
To monitor the development of asthma is to undergo regular medical checks, including four basic tests: measurement of peak respiratory capacity, spirometry to monitor the airway obstruction, bronchodilator, which measures the ability to breathe after inhaling a bronchodilator, and methacholine test, noting the bronchial hyperactivity caused by this bronchoconstrictor.
Also common allergy skin tests, which consist of small dose inoculation of potential allergens to test the reaction they have on the patient.
Asthma therapy depends on its severity in each patient, but generally fall into two groups: preventive treatment and rescue. Both are based on inhaled corticosteroids, steroids and bronchodilators.
Preventative asthma treatments are applied once or twice daily, while the rescue are those who are called upon when a crisis occurs. The characteristics of each other based on the severity of the disease.
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Asthma Attack
The first attacks of asthma usually occur in childhood, although it is not uncommon that affects adults who had never had respiratory problems. Asthma in children can be triggered by a cold. Also influence the onset of the disease hereditary factors and the fact that the child has parents who smoke. Recent studies indicate that children who have received lengthy treatment with antibiotics during their first year of life are more likely to have asthma.
As in the case of adults, emotional tension, sudden temperature changes and environmental pollution, are agents that can trigger the onset of asthma.
Asthma is a disease that can be controlled with proper therapy and care to avoid extrinsic causes that provoke it. Even so, it is almost impossible to prevent asthma attacks.
These crises are accompanied, others of dyspnea or shortness of breath, coughing, bronchial irritation increases, mucus, wheezing, bronchial spasms and, occasionally, fever.