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Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disorder of the airways in which many cells and cellular elements play a role. In susceptible individuals, inflammation causes recurrent episodes of wheezing, breathlessness, chest tightness, and coughing.

Generally, sudden asthma attack are caused by both unknown and known factors such as exposure to allergens, viruses, or indoor and outdoor pollutants, and each may induce an acute inflammatory response.

There are two kinds of asthma attack namely chronic and acute severe asthma. Chronic asthma is characterized by shortness of breath associated with wheezing, but the clinical presentation of asthma attack is diverse. Patients may complain of a feeling of tightness in the chest or occasionally a burning sensation. However, a chronic persistent cough may be the only symptom.

Asthma can vary from chronic daily symptom to only intermittent symptoms. There are recurrent exacerbation and remission, and the intervals between symptoms may be weeks, months, or years.

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The severity is primarily determined by the number of medications required to adequately control symptoms. Patients can present with mild intermittent symptoms that require no medication or only occasional use if inhaled bronchial relaxer to severe chronic asthma symptoms despite receiving multiple medication.

The diagnosis of asthma is made primarily by a history of recurrent episodes of coughing, wheezing, or shortness of breath and confirmatory spirometry. The patients may have a family history of allergy or asthma or have symptoms of allergic stuffy nose. A history of exercise or cod air precipitating shortness of breath or increased symptoms during specific allergen seasons also suggest asthma.

Another type of asthma attack is acute severe asthma. Uncontrolled asthma can progress to an acute state where inflammation, airway edema, excessive accumulation of mucus and severe bronchial spasm result in profound airway narrowing that is poorly responsive to usual bronchial relaxer therapy.

Patients present with severe shortness of breath, wheezing, anxiety, rapid breathing, tachycardia, and, in severe cases, physical sign causing bluish discoloration of the skin and mucous membranes because of lack of oxygen in the blood. In severe obstruction, air movement in and out of the lungs is substantially decreased and wheezing may actually decrease.

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Asthma attacks all age groups but often starts in childhood. It is a disease characterized by recurrent attacks of breathlessness and wheezing, which vary in severity and frequency from person to person. In an individual, they may occur from hour to hour and from day to day.

Asthma causes

It is not clear exactly what makes the airways of people with asthma inflammation in the first place. Your inflamed airways may by a combination of things
Asthma is the most likely to contain a convergence of factors, the genes (probably several) and various environmental and biologic triggers (eg, infections, diet, hormonal changes in women, and allergens) are caused.

Asthma occurs when the body’s natural defense system against bacteria, viruses and other harmful microbes is overprotective. It incorrectly identifies relatively harmless pollen, dust and dander, the establishment of a reaction, and narrowed inflamed small airways in the lungs. From this shortness of breath, wheezing, and tissue damage in the worst cases, death comes.
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Asthma symptoms

People with asthma symptoms in the airways fixed, inflame, or fill with mucus. Common symptoms of asthma />
• Cough, especially at night
• wheezing
• shortness of breath
• Tightness in the chest, pain or pressure

Asthma Treatment

There are different types of medications available to treat asthma. Most people use a combination of long-term control medications and quick relief medications. Your doctor can help you decide which option is best for you based on your age and the severity of your symptoms.

In recent years it used a wide variety of asthma medications, pediatricians and parents as asthma treatment for children with asthma may have been.

To control your asthma and prevent asthma attacks, it is very important to have your asthma medications exactly as prescribed by your doctor. Their medications called regularly, you can prevent asthma emergencies.

Many people think they can skip their medications, if they do not feel sick, that’s not true. Asthma is a chronic disease that you have it all the time, also means if you do not feel symptoms. Therefore, you take your medications as prescribed is so important.

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Asthma is the disease of the twenty-first century. Typhoid and cholera were once rampant everywhere, and they indeed still are problems in developing or Third World countries. However, it is increasingly true in developed countries, including the United States, that asthma is a new epidemic. Asthma does not make the headlines as dramatically as these two killers once did, but nonetheless, it is a killer in its own right. If not taken care of properly, asthma is just as deadly as typhoid and cholera once were.

What is asthma and how does it affect sufferers’ bodies? Simply put, asthma narrows the tubes present in the lungs during an acute attack, which makes it more difficult for the sufferer to breathe. Three factors affect this spasmodic reaction in the lungs’ tubes. In addition, because sufferers are struggling to breathe, muscles in the throat also contract during an attack, and edema may also occur (basically, swelling), which makes it even more difficult to breathe. Mucus may also build up because mucus occurs as a reaction to irritants and tries to act as a buffer or coating to both remove any irritant and to soothe the underlying tissue. This constitutes an asthma attack.

Asthma attacks be relatively benign or very severe. Simply relaxing and breathing through an attack calmly may be enough to thwart it, perhaps with use of an inhaler. Experienced asthma sufferers know that it helps to be calm during an attack, in order to make symptoms less severe and go away more quickly. Inexperienced sufferers, or those prone to nervousness anyway, may experience panic attacks, which would make the asthma attacks even more severe. The harder you try to breathe, the harder it becomes. You may truly feel as though you are drowning.

Why do some people get asthma and others not? No one knows for sure who will get asthma and who won’t, but there are several predisposing factors, including genetic predisposition. Others prone to asthma may include those who smoke and those who are overweight and/or obese, and who do not remain physically active. After all, the lungs are organs that need exercise, too, and if you’re not getting sufficient cardiovascular exercise every day, you make yourself more prone to asthma. Whatever your particular predisposition, if you have asthma, it will help to know what you’re triggers are. These include pollen, dust, cigarette smoke, animal hair and dander, and others. Those with the most severe asthma may even have to be careful with vigorous exercise or extreme laughter, for example. Fortunately, with the intervention of medications, these types of situations are relatively rare.

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Introduction

Asthma in children is common and about 1 to 2 percent of all children get chronic asthma during childhood. Asthma in children is most likely to occur five years ago. The cause of asthma in children is on the air pollution, animal dander, cockroach droppings and mites. The better you understand asthma in children, the better you will be able to control them. You can learn to recognize the symptoms of asthma in children, as children develop a pattern of symptoms. Special breathing tests can be helpful to assess asthma in older children. As time passes, we see the first signs and symptoms of asthma. To understand what happens during an asthma attack to the body of your child, you have to understand the symptoms. When an asthma attack is left untreated, it can at least prolong the time that an asthmatic person feels unhappy. At worst, it progresses to a severe asthma attack

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causes of asthma in children. As asthma, tends to run in families, may your child be affected with asthma. Exposure to smoke is also an important cause of asthma in children. Emotions such as fear, excitement or anger can cause asthma in children. Signs and symptoms of child asthma: wheezing, a whistling noise is particularly noticeable as your child exhales. The wheezing can be detected easily when your child exhales, and it is currently all the time after training or during a viral infection. A cough is the cause of asthma in children and older children can thick yellow sputum, cough. Tightness in the chest is the cause of asthma in children. Some children with asthma never wheezes and five percent of children have only the symptom of cough. It can develop in infancy, though most seem asthma in children aged between 2 and 5, which increase when antibodies to inhalant allergens in a child’s body.