Asthma is a condition that affects the respiratory system of a person. When one has an attack, the airways that carry air to and from the lungs swell. This makes air passage through them difficult as not enough air is getting to the lungs, asthma inflammation is felt. This comes with symptoms such as coughing, wheezing, tightness in the chest and shortness of breath. When on e experiences these symptoms, he is said to be having an asthma attack.
If the condition is not treated, asthma inflammation continues to worsen. As some point, the quality of life is drastically affected. An asthma patient needs to seek medical attention as soon as the symptoms are detected. This avoids the condition from getting out of hand. With medical aid, the condition can be controlled, controlled, and the symptoms relieved.
Asthma disease has no cure. What one can do is just to try and treat the symptoms. A medical personnel can teach you on how to manage the condition. You will learn on how to detect the causes, how to avoid them and ways of taking the asthma medication.
Asthma inflammation can be caused by caused by many things. These can be caused by many things. These can be family history of asthma, eczema, air pollution, irritants at workplaces, smoking when pregnant, and viral infections. Infants can be born with asthma inflammation if their parents used to smoke while pregnant. The condition can be prevented by taking prevention drugs. The drugs should only be taken with permission from a doctor. The doctor should give you a prescription and the guidelines on how to take them.
Mercy Maranga
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August 30th, 2009 at 9:08 am
What works for the inflammation part of Asthma/not the constriction?
Everyone’s always concerned about the bronchospasm/constriction part of asthma, which can be scary itself, and that’s the part that I think is the dangerous part, right?
However, for me, the actual inflammation, the pain/soreness, that lasts for days…that part makes it uncomfortable for me and hard to breathe.
Being that inhalers don’t really work for treating that, what does?
Is there any immediate relief for the inflammation, or not really?
Aside from pain killers.
If you’re taking pain killers for asthma, does that mean that the inflammation is really bad?
August 30th, 2009 at 2:10 pm
if your asthma is that bad you should be asking a doctor and not Yahoo answers!!! asthma can become a medical emergency and so many have died from this, I have asthma and I can tell you that not being able to breath is worse than having a sore throat or inflammation any day, not getting oxygen into your blood stream or into you brain isnt good, and when you’re low on oxygen you can become euphoric and not even realize you’re very sick and thats how and when u can die from it. you can see if you doctor can put you on steriods for awhile, that will work on the inflammation. but please go see your doctor
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August 30th, 2009 at 2:12 pm
Actually an inhalor would work for you, you need to be on a steroid such as fluticasone or mometasone. Ask your doctor for Advair. Alternatively, if Advair does not work, your doctor may prescribe you to take Prednisone (another steroid) in a pill form.
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Im a Respiratory Therapist.
August 30th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
Steroids work for inflammation. For asthma, you can take a daily inhaled steroid such as Flovent (fluticasone) or Pulmicort (budesonide).
For you, I think an inhaler combination like Advair (fluticasone/salmeterol) would be a good option. It has a steroid (fluticasone) for the inflammation and a long-acting beta2-agonist (salmeterol) which is like a long-acting version of albuterol. Daily steroid inhalation will keep the inflammation down. These type of inhalers are for CONTROL — they must be taken daily to prevent attacks. Still keep a rescue inhaler on you at all times — Advair or others like it won’t help in an attack — you’ll still need a fast-acting inhaler like albuterol
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I’m a pharmacist.