Thursday, September 1, 2011

Warning signs of asthma patients

Asthma patients need to be a fit not to smithereens. Rather, you can meet him active. Prerequisite: Active Learn your body and learn to pay attention to warning signs.
The following signs may herald an asthma attack:
Decrease in exercise capacity
This warning signal you notice when you increasingly more difficulty (eg climb stairs) everyday activities at work, at home or at a sporting good deal.
Peak flow values ​​fall off
Through the regular peak flow measurements, you can perceive deterioration in advance. Decreasing values ​​indicate a deterioration. Also increasing day fluctuations in peak flow values ​​and an increase in the difference in value before and after inhalation of a bronchial expanding drug to show a deterioration.
Increase in breathlessness
Increased breathlessness is a very important warning. You may increase, especially at night and after exercise. Of course, also suitable for allergic asthma (inhaled) allergens such as pollen, dust mites or animals and cause hypersensitivity of the airways and irritants such as tobacco smoke or perfume acute respiratory symptoms.
Increased cough with sputum
If more coughing occurs during exercise, contact with irritants and allergic asthma also in contact with specific allergens, this is also a warning signal. The cough can occur with increased ejection, as propagated by a progressive inflammatory reaction, mucus is produced.
Nocturnal cough
The incidence and severity of symptoms are subject to a circadian rhythm. Coughing fits occur especially at night, because the widening of the bronchi decreases during the night. This rhythm occurs in all people with asthma, this may intensify the symptoms. In addition, it is the respiratory current (peak flow) decreased. In addition, increases the production of inflammation of the bronchial mucosa in during the night.
Increasing consumption of emergency sprays
Will you care when you need the drug bronchodilators more often and in shorter time intervals. This is a sign of the increase in inflammatory reaction in the bronchi, the airways constrict.
Signs of infection
Infections can cause asthma exacerbations. Bacteria or viruses can cause inflammation of the bronchi (bronchitis) or lung inflammation (pneumonia). Bacterial infections must be treated with antibiotics. By an ordinary cold or infection of teeth or sinuses, an asthma are adversely affected.

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