• Items

  
  Click Here!

  
  
  

  
  Click Here!

• Categories

  • Allergies
  • Allergy Medicine
  • Allergy Treatment
  • Asthma Medicine
  • Nasal Strips
  • Nebulizers
  • Respiration Flow Meters
  • Sinus Medicine

• Links

  • Cooloola Business Directory
  • Gympie Business Directory

• Affiliate Notice

  The owner of this website is an affiliate for providers of goods and services mentioned on this website and may receive payments when you purchase from a provider.

Asthma Wheezing Treatment: Avoid or Be Exposed to Triggers to Effectively Control Asthma

Asthma is a chronic ailment wherein the onset of an “attack” is mainly characterized by shortness of breath. The symptoms of asthma attack vary, depending on the type of asthma. If it is cardiac asthma, it is more likely to be accompanied by nighttime coughing. If it is bronchial asthma, chest tightness is usually felt. The symptom that most commonly displays is wheezing. That is the high pitched whistling noise heard as the asthmatic breathes. Wheezing is also present during severe allergic reactions. For severe asthma, however, wheezing isn’t usually present due to the little amount of air getting through to the air passages.

Wheezing is often the first symptom to appear when there’s an asthma attack, or an upcoming one. The severity of the asthma corresponds to the level of wheezing. Little wheezing can be present when there’s a mild asthma attack, a little louder wheezing can be heard when it’s an acute asthma attack, a higher pitched wheezing is heard during a more serious attack, and the wheezing stops when the asthma is barely allowing the asthmatic to take in air.
As of the moment, there is no cure for asthma. The closest thing to a cure is immunotherapy. Immunotherapy is the process by which an asthmatic is exposed to minute amounts of asthma triggers. The amount of the triggers gradually increases over a long period of time until which the asthmatic will be almost immune to it. Immunotherapy was first used for cancer but now used for true allergy. Since true allergy, not food allergy, is a lot similar to asthma, immunotherapy works.
Immunotherapy can be expensive. Depending on the patient’s reaction to the triggers, the process can last for months, or even years. A cheaper, yet somewhat paranoid, approach is to just avoid the triggers. “Trigger avoidance is best” as some experts would say. What you would want to do is to figure out what causes your asthma attacks and do your best to avoid them. The most common asthma triggers are cigarette smoke, strong smells, fumes, and vehicle smoke. Other triggers are the “usual” allergy triggers: cockroach feces, molds, pollen, dust mites, etc.

The two most effective ways to successfully control your asthma are opposite extremes. The first is to voluntarily subject yourself to your triggers and attempt to develop immunity from them. The second is to just avoid them if at all possible. Of course, following your doctor’s orders is non-negotiable.

Johnson Star was an asthma sufferer for 20 years. For more detailed instructions and latest help on asthma wheezing treatment, be sure to visit http://www.17minasthmaandallergysecrets.com/, and get your FREE 10-day mini-ecourse right now.

Comments