Bronchial Asthma

Bronchial asthma season is near. Many asthma occur in the cold months of the year. In the Philippines it is from November to January. Asthma can be differentiated from other respiratory diseases with difficulty of breathing through listening to ones breath. Wheezing in asthma is heard during the expiratory phase. Prevention of attack of asthma is by preventing exposure to triggering factors like changes in weather, dust, pollution, scents, and some foods. Different people have different triggering factor. In some people even emotional problems can trigger an attack. There are many forms of treatment for asthma. Medicines for asthma can be in the form of tablets, syrup, inhaled via nebulizer or gas propelled inhalers. Form of treatment can be suited to one's convenience. In many cases asthma will disappaer at a certain age. In other cases it can have daily weekly or monthly attacks. It is important that one identifies his triggering factor in order to prevent the attack. Recurrent attack will lead to emphysema that is over stretching of lung tissue which will lead to more debilitating attack. Exercise is good for asthma during periods when there is no attack. Asthma sufferers has to rotate his medications every week in order to get the full benefit of the medicine since tolerance to the medicine occurs when the same medicine is taken daily for a week.Fruit juice and plenty of fluids has to be taken during the attack. In the elderly asthma has to be differentiated from difficulty of breathing brought about by heart diseases and other systemic illnesses.

Understanding Our Body

Our body has its method of maintaining balance or health. Overworking will make you tired. Our body is signaling we are overworking and we have to take rest or it will suffer from imbalance or disease. Sweating means our body is overheating and since sweating causes loss of water you will feel thirst and we need to take fluids. These are workings of the human body that we need to understand in order to remain healthy. It is important that we understand our body in order to be in balance or healthy. We should study and learn from our body. For instance let’s study hunger. Among the diabetics there is huge amount of food (sugar) in the blood yet there is always hunger. If the diabetic don’t know this he will satisfy the feeling of hunger by eating and this aggravates the condition. The simple feeling of hunger among the non-diabetics means there is little food in his system and food has to be taken. The amount of food needed need not be too much. Overindulgence in food may bring other conditions like diabetes, hypercholesterolemia, and the like. Hunger has to be satisfied by food but just at the right amount enough to replace the energy spent on performing activities that is there is no excess amount that will make you gain weight. There are still other human body manifestations that will alarm us when there is problem in our system. They will be tackled next time.