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.