Asthma and change of weather

Asthma and change of weather                                                                                                             

Asthma is a chronic illness of the airways that produces breathing difficulty. With respiratory disorder, there's inflammation of the air passages that results in narrowing of the airways that carry oxygen to the lungs. This leads to respiratory disorder symptoms, together with coughing, wheezing, shortness of breath, and chest tightness.

Common kinds of Asthma and their causes

1.  Adult-Onset Asthma.

People who are allergic to cats might have an increased risk for developing the adult-onset respiratory disorder. Exposure to allergens or irritants like cigarette smoke, chemicals, mold, dust, or different substances usually found in the person's surroundings may cause the main respiratory disorder symptoms in an adult.

2. Allergic Asthma.

Exposure to numerous irritants and substances that cause allergies (allergens) can cause signs and symptoms of asthma.  Flying substances, like pollen, dust mites, mold spores, pet dander or particles of cockroach waste.

3.  Asthma-COPD Overlap.

Asthma-COPD overlap comes about when you have symptoms of both asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). These both lung problems make breathing difficult. But in other ways, they're different.

For example, asthma gets better. Symptoms can be controlled, and you may be symptom-free for a long time. With COPD, symptoms are persistent and get worse over time, even with treatment. And the diseases are caused by different things.

4. Exercise-Induced Bronchoconstriction (EIB)

If someone experiences wheezing, coughing, or shortness of breath with exercise, He has exercise-induced bronchoconstriction or asthma.

5. None allergic asthma

Non-allergic asthma is triggered by factors other than allergens. These can include:

• Viral respiratory infections
• Exercise
• Irritants in the air
• Stress
• Drugs and certain food additives
• Weather conditions

 6. Occupational asthma

Occupational asthma is caused by breathing in chemical fumes, gases, dust or other substances on the job. Occupational asthma can result from exposure to a substance you're sensitive to or to an irritating toxic substance. It can cause an allergic or immunological response.

Early signs of an asthma attack

• Frequent cough, particularly at midnight.
•  Shortness of breath.
• Feeling very tired or weak during exercise.
• Wheezing or coughing when exercise.
• Feeling tired, simply upset, irritable, or moody.
• Decreases in lung function as measured on a peak flow meter.

Foods that facilitate to cure asthma naturally

·      Honey. Combining one tsp. of honey in a cup of warm water removes phlegm from your throat and treats asthma symptoms.

    • Avocado
    • Kale.
    • Coffee.
    • Spinach.
    • Apple.
    • Banana.
    • Garlic.
Foods that aren't good for asthma

Food allergies can cause delicate to severe serious reactions. They sometimes cause isolated asthma attack without symptoms. Patients with food allergies may exhibit bronchial asthma as a part of food-induced hypersensitivity reaction. The most common foods related to allergic symptoms are
• Eggs
• Cow's milk
• Peanuts
• Tree nuts
• Soy
• Wheat
• Fish
• Shrimp and different shellfish
• Salads
• Fresh fruits
Food preservatives can trigger isolated bronchial asthma. Sulfite additives, like sodium bisulfite, potassium bisulfite, sodium metabisulfite, potassium metabisulfite, and sodium sulfite, are usually employed in food processor preparation and may trigger asthma in those who are sensitive.

Nutrition

First aid treatment for an asthma attack

1. Symptoms of acute attack are difficulty talking or walking as a result of shortness of breath or lips or fingernails turning blue.
 Follow the Person’s asthma set up, if possible

2.  Find out if the person has a personal asthma action plan from a doctor.

3. If so, follow its directions for giving asthma medication and seeking medical facilitate for acute asthma attack.

4.  Provide asthma first aid
If the person does not have an asthma plan:
• Sit the person upright well and loosen tight clothing.
• Help the person in using asthma medication, like an inhaler.
• If the person doesn’t have an inhaler, one from a first aid kit can be used. Don't borrow somebody else’s. Medicine in it may be different than the required rescue medicine. Also, using somebody else's inhaler contains a slight risk of passing on an infection.

5.  Use inhaler With a Spacer, if possible
• Remove cap and shake the inhaler well.
• Insert inhaler into spacer.
• Have the person exhale completely and place mouth tightly around the spacer mouthpiece.
• Press inhaler once to deliver a puff.
• Have the person inhale slowly through the mouth then hold breath for ten seconds.
• Give a complete of 4 puffs, waiting a few minutes between each puff.

Effects of asthma on  the body

 For a few individuals, asthma symptoms only seem when they are exposed to one thing that irritates their breathing. Others have a form of asthma that produces breathing troublesome all of the time.
A person can get asthma at any age. Asthma affects all races, ages, and genders. Though asthma affects individuals of all ages, it typically starts in childhood and is common in children than in adults.
Asthma has no cure, however, it is controlled. The bulk of issues related to asthma, as well as staying in the hospital, may be prevented if asthma is managed properly.

A long term side effect of uncontrolled asthma

Although the raised mucus and muscle tightening is result in chronic swelling of the airways and that is the most dangerous long-term impact of asthma.
A process referred to as airway remodeling can occur over a few years, resulting in scarring of the lungs. This process results from the chronic and uncontrolled inflammation that may occur over time. If you fail to get better control over your asthma, the end result may be like COPD after a few years.
In these cases, like lung infections, the normal tissue of the lungs is replaced with scar tissue. Scar tissue doesn't work like normal lungs do, leaving patients with severe lung harm in some cases. Over a few years, a number of these patients experience significant disability as a result.
 In the case of airway remodeling, long term complications can be controlled only by controlling asthma. Correct use of asthma medications help a patient to live a life in a healthy way, with few asthma-related symptoms.


New research regarding Asthma treatment

Researchers from Mcmaster University and the Firestone Institute for Respiratory Health at St. Joseph's health care Hamilton, in conjunction with colleagues at different partnering establishments, have developed a new methodology to treat severe asthma. During a study of over two hundred participants with severe asthma, the new treatment showed improved asthma symptoms and lung function, by

 reducing the need for corticosteroids by up to 70^th.

Current treatments for severe asthma typically embody high doses of corticosteroids(drugs to treat asthma and allergies). By reducing the need for corticosteroids with alternative treatments is preferred, since these medications are related to serious side effects from prolonged use -- together with multi-organ deadliness and immune suppression. The team of researchers found that an antibody known as Dupilumab is effective in treating severe asthma in place of high doses of prednisone