Treatment Of Asthma

Because asthma is a chronic treatment, continues for a long time. Some people have to remain in treatment for the rest of their lives. The best way to improve their condition and live their life on their own terms is to learn everything you can about your asthma and you can do to make it better.

Become a partner with your health care provider and support staff of his. Use the resources they can offer - information, education and skills - to help you.

Know your asthma triggers and what you can do to avoid them.

Follow the treatment recommendations of your health care provider. Understand the treatment. Know what each drug does and how it is used.

See your health care provider about the schedule.

Report any change or worsening of symptoms quickly.

Report any side effects you have with your medications.

These are the goals of therapy:

prevent the symptoms continue and annoying;

prevent asthma attacks;

prevent attacks serious enough to require a visit to your provider or emergency services or hospitalization;

continue normal activity;

to maintain normal or near normal lung function and

side effects of drugs as possible.

Medical Treatment

If you're in the emergency room, treatment should be started while the evaluation is ongoing.

You may receive oxygen through a mask or a tube is inserted into the nose.

It can be administered by aerosol therapy with beta-agonists through a mask or a nebulizer, with or without an anticholinergic agent.

Another way to give inhaled beta-agonists are used in metered dose inhaler or MDI. MDI provides a standard dose of medication for every breath. MDI is often used together with "spacer" or seal chamber. The dose of 6-8 puffs sprayed spacer, which is then inhaled. The advantage of the MDI with spacer is that it requires little or no assistance to the respiratory therapist.

If you are already on steroids or have recently stopped taking steroids or, if this turns out to be a very serious attack, you can get an IV dose of steroids.

If you take a methylxanthine such as theophylline or aminophylline, the blood level of this medicine will be reviewed, and that can give this medication intravenously.

People who respond poorly to treatment with inhaled beta-agonists may be administered by injection or IV doses of beta-agonists such as terbutaline or epinephrine.

You will be observed for at least a few hours while your results are obtained and evaluated. You will be monitored for signs of improvement or deterioration.

If you respond well to treatment, you will probably be released from the hospital. Stay tuned in the coming hours for a return of symptoms. If symptoms are to recur or worsen, return to the emergency room immediately.

Your answer is likely to be monitored peak flow meters.

In some circumstances, you may need to be admitted to the hospital. There can be carefully monitored and treated it worse. The conditions of the hospital are:

an attack is very severe or do not respond well to treatment;

poor lung function observed in spirometry;

high carbon dioxide or low oxygen levels;

a history of being admitted to hospital and put on a ventilator for asthma attack;

other serious diseases that may threaten the recovery and

other lung diseases or serious injury, such as pneumonia or pneumothorax (a "collapse" of the lungs).

If your asthma is diagnosed, you may start on a regimen of medication and monitoring. You will receive two types of medications:

Controller medications: these long-term control of persistent asthma. They help reduce inflammation in the lungs that underlie asthma. You take these every day, if you have symptoms or not.

Emergency drugs: are short-term control of asthma attacks. You take them only when you have symptoms or is it more likely that the attack - for example, when there is inflammation of the airways.

The treatment plan includes other components:

awareness of your triggers and avoid those triggers as much as possible;

recommendations for dealing with asthma in their daily lives;

regular monitoring visits to your health care provider;

using a peak flow meter.

At your follow-up visits, your health care provider to see what you did.

He or she will ask about the frequency and severity of attacks, use of rescue medication and peak flow measurements.

Pulmonary function tests can be done to see how your lungs react to treatment.

This is a good time to discuss the drug side effects or problems you may experience with their treatment.

The peak flow meter is a simple and inexpensive device that measures how well you are able to breathe.

Ask your health care provider or an assistant will show you how to use a peak flow meter. Should be using it until they do it properly.

Keep one at home and use it regularly. Your provider will make suggestions as to when to measure their peak flow.

A review of peak flow is a good way to help you and your healthcare provider to assess what triggers your asthma and its severity.

Check your peak flow regularly and track the results. Over time, your health care provider may be able to use this book to determine appropriate medications, to reduce the dosage or side effects.

Measures peak flow fall, just before an asthma attack. If you use your peak flow meter regularly, you may be able to predict when you have an attack.

It can also be used to check the answer to saving drugs.

Together, you and your health care provider to develop a plan for you in case of asthma attacks. The action plan will include the following:

how to use the controller medication;

the use of rescue medication in case of attack;

What if the elevator does not work immediately;

When to Call Your Health Care and

when to go to the hospital.