Need to know how to prevent or minimize asthma attacks in the future.
If you have asthma attacks triggered by an allergic reaction, avoid triggers as much as possible.
Keep your asthma when you are worn out. This is very important. Although the symptoms of an acute asthma attack disappears appropriate treatment, asthma is never lost.
Showing posts with label Asthma. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Asthma. Show all posts
Monday, August 8, 2011
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.
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.
Symptoms Of Asthma
wheezing,
shortness of breath;
chest tightness,
cough, and
slurred speech.
The symptoms may occur during the day or night. If they occur at night, can interfere with sleep.
Wheezing is the most common symptom of an asthma attack.
Wheezing is a musical, whistling, or hissing sound of breathing.
Wheezes are usually heard on expiration, but can occur by breathing (inhalation).
Not all asthmatics wheeze, not all people with asthma wheeze.
Current guidelines for the care of people with asthma include the classification of the severity of asthma symptoms, as follows:
Mild intermittent: This includes attacks not more than twice a week and the night attack no more than twice a month. The attacks do not last more than a few hours to several days. Severity of attacks varies, but there are no symptoms between attacks.
Mild persistent: This includes attacks on more than twice a week but not every day, and night symptoms more than twice a month. The attacks are sometimes so difficult to interrupt the normal activity.
Moderate persistent: These include daily attacks and nocturnal symptoms more than once a week. Most serious attacks occur at least twice a week and can last several days. Attacks require daily use quick-relief (rescue) medications and changes in daily activities.
Severe persistent: This includes frequent severe attacks, continuous daytime symptoms and frequent nighttime symptoms. Symptoms requiring limits on daily activities.
Just because a person of mild to moderate asthma does not mean he or she can not have a serious crisis. Asthma severity may change over time, whether for good or ill.
Causes Of Asthma
The exact cause of asthma is unknown.
That all people with asthma have in common is a chronic inflammation of the airways and airway sensitivity to different factors too.
The research focused on why some people develop asthma and others do not.
Some people are born with a tendency to have asthma, while others are not. Researchers are trying to find the genes that cause this trend.
The environment in which they live and how they live, in part, to determine if you have asthma attacks.
An asthma attack is a response to a trigger. It corresponds in many ways to an allergic reaction.
An allergic reaction is a reaction to the body's immune system to "Invader".
When cells of the immune system, the sense of an invader, they trigger a series of reactions that help fight the invader.
And 'this series of reactions that causes mucus production and bronchospasm. These responses lead to symptoms of an asthma attack.
When asthma is the "invaders" triggers listed below. Triggers vary among individuals.
Because asthma is an allergic reaction, sometimes called reactive airway disease.
Everyone with asthma has its own unique set of triggers. Most of the triggers cause attacks in some people with asthma and others do not. Common triggers of asthma attacks are as follows:
snuff or exposure to wood smoke,
breathing polluted air,
inhalation of other respiratory irritants such as perfumes or cleaning products,
exposure to respiratory irritants at work,
respiratory allergy-causing substances (allergens) such as mold, dust or animal hair,
an upper respiratory infection, such as colds, flu, sinusitis or bronchitis,
exposure to cold weather and dry
emotional arousal or stress,
physical exertion or exercise
acid reflux disease known as gastroesophageal reflux disease or GERD,
sulfites, an additive for food and wine, and
periods: in some, not all women have asthma symptoms closely related to the menstrual cycle.
Risk factors of developing asthma:
hay fever (allergic rhinitis) and other allergies - this is the single risk factor;
Eczema: a different type of allergy affecting the skin, and
genetic predisposition, a, sister, parent or sibling also has asthma.
That all people with asthma have in common is a chronic inflammation of the airways and airway sensitivity to different factors too.
The research focused on why some people develop asthma and others do not.
Some people are born with a tendency to have asthma, while others are not. Researchers are trying to find the genes that cause this trend.
The environment in which they live and how they live, in part, to determine if you have asthma attacks.
An asthma attack is a response to a trigger. It corresponds in many ways to an allergic reaction.
An allergic reaction is a reaction to the body's immune system to "Invader".
When cells of the immune system, the sense of an invader, they trigger a series of reactions that help fight the invader.
And 'this series of reactions that causes mucus production and bronchospasm. These responses lead to symptoms of an asthma attack.
When asthma is the "invaders" triggers listed below. Triggers vary among individuals.
Because asthma is an allergic reaction, sometimes called reactive airway disease.
Everyone with asthma has its own unique set of triggers. Most of the triggers cause attacks in some people with asthma and others do not. Common triggers of asthma attacks are as follows:
snuff or exposure to wood smoke,
breathing polluted air,
inhalation of other respiratory irritants such as perfumes or cleaning products,
exposure to respiratory irritants at work,
respiratory allergy-causing substances (allergens) such as mold, dust or animal hair,
an upper respiratory infection, such as colds, flu, sinusitis or bronchitis,
exposure to cold weather and dry
emotional arousal or stress,
physical exertion or exercise
acid reflux disease known as gastroesophageal reflux disease or GERD,
sulfites, an additive for food and wine, and
periods: in some, not all women have asthma symptoms closely related to the menstrual cycle.
Risk factors of developing asthma:
hay fever (allergic rhinitis) and other allergies - this is the single risk factor;
Eczema: a different type of allergy affecting the skin, and
genetic predisposition, a, sister, parent or sibling also has asthma.
Asthma Overview
When the inflammation is "triggered" by an arbitrary number of external and internal factors, the passages swell and fill with mucus.
Muscles contract in the breathing passages (bronchospasm), causing further narrowing of the airways.
This narrowing prevents the air to breathe out (exhaled) from the lungs.
This resistance led to the expiration of the typical symptoms of an asthma attack.
Because asthma causes resistance or obstruction of breathing, it is called obstructive pulmonary disease. The medical term for lung diseases like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease are or COPD. COPD is actually a group of diseases that do not include asthma, but also chronic bronchitis and emphysema.
Like any other chronic illness, asthma is a condition that you live every day of your life. You can have an attack any time you are exposed to one of the triggers. Unlike other chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma is reversible.
Asthma has no cure, but can be controlled.
You have a better chance to control your asthma if it is diagnosed early and treatment is begun immediately.
With proper treatment, people with asthma can have attacks less frequent and less severe.
Without treatment, they will have asthma attacks more frequent and severe and can even die.
We grew up, children are less susceptible to infection than our ancestors, which made us more sensitive to the immune system.
We spend more time indoors, where we are exposed to indoor allergens such as dust and mold.
Breathing the air is more polluted than the air in most of our ancestors breathed.
Our lifestyles have led to less exercise and get our obesity epidemic. There is some evidence suggesting a link between obesity and asthma.
Asthma affects people of all ages, although it is more common in younger people. Frequency and severity of asthma attacks tend to diminish a person ages.
Asthma is the most common chronic disease among children.
Asthma has many costs to society and the individual concerned.
Many people are forced to compromise on their lifestyle to accommodate their disease.
Asthma is a major cause of work and school absenteeism and lost productivity.
Asthma is one of the most common causes of emergency room visits and hospitalization.
Good news for asthmatics is that you can live life to the fullest. Current treatments for asthma, if followed carefully, so that most people with asthma to limit the amount of attacks they have. With the help of your health care provider, you can manage your care and your life.
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