Causes And Symptoms Of Asthma

Asthma is a breathing disorder that affects the airways; these air passages are the tubes that carry air into the lungs and out. The disorder itself is not curable. Asthma can however be controlled, and prevented if people already have the condition, the best thing is to do get to know how to manage it. This way people will be able to live a long and productive life.

The most common symptoms of asthma attack include a burning pain in the chest area, coughing, wheezing and running out of breath, though these symptoms may vary with individual sufferers. Some people show one or all of them at a go. Causes of asthma attack also vary with different individuals. The main causes of asthma depend on individual cases as some can get an asthma attack from air pollutants, others from animals. The most common causes of asthma attack are colds and viral infections, house dust mites, hormonal changes, emotions, medications, molds, fungi, polar, smoking and some elements of weather' the causes are very many. Some of the people can get an asthma attack after having sex. People what actually need to do as an asthma sufferer is identifying the causes of their asthma attack and this way they will be able to deal with the condition.

Once people learn of the cause or trigger of their asthma should try and avoid it, as this way people will be able to stay for a long time without having an asthma attack. The asthma sufferers around should also be duly be informed about their condition so that people can be able to help them accordingly. This is very important in case of a severe asthma attack. Symptoms of asthma attack are the indications that one sees that one is suffering from asthma. Asthma is a condition that badly affects the airways that transport air in and out of the lungs. This breathing condition occurs when the airways are irritated and cause a swelling in the lungs and causes the air not to pass through as required.

These unfevourable situations for the asthmatic sufferers bring about irritation and trigger the occurrence of asthmatic symptoms. Coughs are usually brought about by long term exposure to germs that may be in the air or environment around us. Clean surroundings are a must to avoid this problematic situation. Wheezing on the other hand, is actually like a hissing sound that comes from the breath of the sufferers and may at times come along with long gulps of breathing, or heavy breathing. This is usually brought about by damp or colds or bad weather and even dusty environment.

Tightness of chest is another symptom of severe asthma; this is brought about by lightening of blood vessels through which the air passes. Various anti-asthma medications are used to cause a relaxation of this vessels therefore giving relief to them. Heavy breathing also is a symptom of severe asthma and could come about by involvement in work that is too heavy and therefore not supplying sufficient air into the body that also brings about acute shortness of breath.

• John Palsson
• 21/12/2008, 6:59 PM
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