The Disease Of The Asthma Caused By The Allergy

It is a chronic disease that obstructs to the respiratory apparatus because it produces inflammation of the conduits that take air to the lungs, as a result of exaggerated sensitivity or allergy towards irritating elements, for example, pollen, smoke, dust, some animal medicines or hair.

It is pronounced with breathlessness, cough, oppression in the chest and whistles when breathing. When the person stays stable, its breathing can be considered normal, since the air is able to flow freely towards the lungs, but if it undergoes cold, influenza or is exposed to the substances before mentioned, the respiratory routes are obstructed.

It happens because their walls become inflamed, are contracted the muscles that surround them, and to it high snot production is added, which narrows those conduits still more making difficult the breathing. It can appear to any age, but hardly before the 2 or 3 years and he is not curable, is solely possible to control it.

Causes:

• Exaggerated sensitivity of the respiratory routes before certain elements, as they pollen, dust, smoke, hair of animals, pens of bird and certain foods (fished, seafood, peanut and egg), as well as some medicines.

Once one of these elements enters the respiratory routes, agrede to the cells that cover their interior, which respond releasing chemical substances that cause inflammation and hardening of muscles. When this happens, the snot production is increased, that is thick and sticky, and becomes difficult the breathing.

• Cold climate or much humidity.
• Infections caused by virus.
• Smoke of cigarette and environmental contamination.
• Intense physical exercise.
• Intense emotional changes, like joy, sadness, fear and anger.
• Allergies.
• Anxiety and stress.

Symptoms:

• Intense cough accompanied by whistles, because the air access to lungs is reduced, is greater snot production and consequently contraction of the respiratory routes.
• Oppression in the chest.
• Respiratory difficulty and to speak.
• Perspiration when effort is made to breathe, if a cough attack appears.

Diagnosis:

• The medical take into account the symptoms, makes a clinical history, it practices physical examinations to the patient and makes some laboratory tests that can include thorax x-ray, analysis of blood and the pulmonary function.

• Also a study is made to measure the air that inhales and exhales, with the aid of a called apparatus espirómetro, which registers the variations in breathing and can help the doctor to determine if a patient has asthma.

• The sensitizing tests are very useful to identify to what the patient is allergic, which consist of drawing up a "map" of those substances that have greater probability of generating an attack asthmatic.

Prevention:

• To avoid the contact with irritating substances that can obstruct the respiratory routes.
• To maintain cleaning the house and places of work or study.
• To avoid the contact with animals. Not to place carpets in the dormitory and the spaces in which it is remained long time.
• To consume water in abundance.
• The asthma improves if it is lived in places where the air is cleaner.
• Not to smoke.
• Because the anxiety and stress can produce an asthma crisis, it is necessary that these emotional states are controlled, for which can resort to natural tranquilizers and infusions of grass.

Treatment:

• To avoid the contact with the elements that produce allergy.
• The antihistamine ones can prevent and alleviate the symptoms.
• Regularly bronchodilator is required to avoid and to stop an asthma crisis.
• Its function consists of relaxing muscles of the respiratory routes, so that these are sprightly and the air intake is facilitated.
• One is due to let smoke, for such aim the deshabituantes of the tobacco are good aids, as long as one is not inhalants.
• The cough can control with some antitusivos or expectorants of free sale that in addition help to that the originating secretions are expelled from the bronchi that obstruct the respiratory channels.

Autor: Hidrocodone Para Dolores.

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