Asthma: Causes And Symptoms

Asthma is an intermittent disease. At times it may be significantly worse. A number of different factors can triggers and contribute to the asthma attack.

The common Causes and Symptoms of Asthma are:

• allergies towards

  • house dust mites. House dust mites create droppings that will worsen the asthma and allergies. Patients with a history of any kind of allergy are repeatedly exposed to house dust mites droppings may develop a specific allergy to mites. Prolonged exposure to the dust mites allergens can then become a trigger for chronic symptoms.

  • pollen

  • animal fur

• irritants

  • open burning smoke. Smoke contain irritants which cause our immune system to mistakenly identifies a normally harmless substance as damaging to the body.

  • cigarette smoke. Same cause to the above but has even more damaging effect due to the presence of up to 4000 harmful chemicals

  • chemical fumes. Industrialization has created million types of unnatural harmful substances which are detrimental to our body cells.

• diet

  • food additives. Food additives are made up of chemicals, some of which are unknown effects to our health.

  • processed food. Food allergen have been found in milk, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, wheat, fish and shellfish.

• certain types of medication

  • aspirin. Patients who consume aspirin tend to produce excessive quantities of natural chemicals called leukotrienes. Leukotrienes cause the muscles surrounding the bronchial tubes to contract and narrowing the airways.

  • non-steroidal anti inflammatory medication (NSAIDs)

  • beta-blockers

• exercise. Exercise generally help to improve general health. Asthma in not excluded. Ironically exercise-induced asthma subject the airways to change of temperature by the fast breathing. The cooling and drying effect the airways during and after the exercise. Light exercise generally helps to improve asthma. However, it is advisable to consult your doctor prior to engaging exercise.

• smoking. Smoking can cause life threatening disease such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Cigarettes smoke can stop certain asthma medication such as inhaler corticosteroids from working effectively. Inhaling a second hand smoke will also trigger an asthma attack.

Understanding and taking steps to rectify the Asthma Causes and Symptoms will greatly reduce sudden asthma attack.

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