Side effects of asthma treatments are rare, as most medications target the lungs directly. Those affecting the mouth can also be reduced by using a spacer. Effective asthma management often combines medication with lifestyle changes, like quitting smoking and using breathing techniques. ...
A. Asthma is a disease of the lungs. You can have a mild or serious form of asthma. It cannot be cured, but people with asthma live healthy lives using medication to control their asthma. People with asthma may have a bad cough, wheezing, and trouble breathing. In an asthma attack, t...
Asthma is a chronic condition that affects the lungs and often leads to symptoms of wheezing, coughing, breathlessness and a tight chest. Over five million people in the UK live with asthma, with the condition being slightly more common in children than in adults. Around 4% of people with t...
All preventer inhalers contain a steroid, which helps to ease your breathing by reducing the inflammation and mucus production in your lungs. When inflammation is reduced, the airways are much less likely to become narrow and cause symptoms such as wheezing. Unlike reliever inhalers (such as Ven...
decrease in the efficiency of lungs during sleep; horizontal position of the body; disturbance of circadian rhythm and so on. Major symptoms: strong cough; difficult breathing; wheezing breath. Heart asthma Cardiac asthma is an asthma attack and shortneβ of breath that occurs in a person due ...
This produces wheezing and trouble with breathing, especially when expelling the air from the lungs. Swelling in the bronchi may also occur, with the extra generation of mucus, which is then hard to cough up. Such attacks can be very alarming, especially if they last for several hours they ...
wheezing and attacks people generally associate with asthma. When I was a kid, I was always the one who couldn’t keep up with the others – I couldn’t run without getting horribly short of breath, with a painful “stitch” in the side of my ribs and burning lungs, my lungs always ...
These inhalers contain drugs called bronchodilators, which relax the muscles in your lungs and let more air in, helping you to breathe more easily. Ventolin is a well-known brand of reliever inhaler. Salbutamol inhalers contain the same generic medication as Ventolin and are usually cheaper as...
type I hypersensitivity and type IV hypersensitivity, are thought to contribute to the major structural and physiologic changes associated with asthma, including airway hyperresponsiveness, goblet cell metaplasia with mucous hypersecretion, subepithelial airway fibrosis, and recruitment to the lungs of diverse...
Hospitals in Manchester and Glasgow in the UK have started treating patients with a pioneering new non-drug treatment for asthma that uses radio waves to burn away muscle tissue blocking the airways in the lungs. Patients with asthma typically have thicker smooth muscle in the walls of airways ...