Archive for the 'asthma' Category

Asthma Homeopathic Treatment

Friday, December 10th, 2010

Asthma  Homeopathic Treatment
Asthma in adults is considered to be almost a life long suffering for most patients, if not all. The crucial issue is to manage it well, using milder medicines and achieving a relatively attack free phase for a long time.
Homeopathic alternative works wonders for Asthma. Patients who are on homeopathic medicines enjoy much [...]

Home Remedies for Asthma

Wednesday, September 15th, 2010

Home remedies for asthma include deep breathing, Pranayam, Indian gooseberry, ginger, drumstick leaves, bitter gourd roots, safflower, etc. Asthma is basically a chronic condition, which involves the constriction of the airways of the respiratory system. It is caused due to inflammation or deposition of mucus in the inner linings of the air vessels. Asthma attacks [...]

Pregnancy And Asthma

Sunday, September 5th, 2010

If you are pregnant and have asthma, you should try to learn all you can about the drugs you are taking to control your asthma. Good asthma control is essential to provide the oxygen your body and the fetus needs. Your doctor will work out the asthma plan best suited to your needs while you [...]

Using Inhalers

Saturday, September 4th, 2010

Many of the drugs given to prevent and treat asthma are inhaled. Inhaled medications do not have to be processed in any way by digestive organs in order to start working. Instead, they travel directly to the lungs, produce their effects quickly, and cause relatively few side effects.
Several different inhaler devices are available to suit [...]

Asthma Caused By Allergies

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

In some people, an asthma episode is brought on by an allergy to something in the environment. Allergies occur when the body reacts to common harmless substances that normally don’t trigger a response in another person. These substances are called allergens.
In the person with allergic asthma, a flare-up of the airways can occur when the [...]

What Causes Asthma?

Monday, August 30th, 2010

We don’t know what causes asthma. But we do know that:
•Asthma and allergies are likely to run in families and may be inherited.
•Children who have allergies at a young age may be at greater risk for developing asthma as adults.
•Some adults with asthma also had asthma as teenagers and as children. In some individuals, the [...]

What Is Asthma?

Sunday, August 29th, 2010

Asthma is a condition that affects the air passages of the lungs. It is a two-step problem:
•When a person has asthma, the air passages are inflamed, which means that the airways are red and swollen.
•Inflammation of the air passages makes them over extra-sensitive to a number of different things that can “trigger,” or bring on, [...]

Asthma

Sunday, August 29th, 2010

Definition
Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the airways in the lungs. This inflammation periodically causes the airways to narrow, producing wheezing and breath-lessness sometimes to the point where the patient gasps for air. This obstruction of the air flow either stops spontaneously or responds to a wide range of treatments. Continuing inflammation makes asthmatics [...]

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