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Rise in Asthma disease and Symptoms of Asthma Exacerbation

Asthma is one of the few diseases that is affecting people equally from all parts of the world. There has been very little discussion about this disease and after decades of study, experts have tried to short list the signs of this disease. Asthma attack has always been under study and when it creates problems in breathing through airways, it is referred as Asthma Exacerbation. To understand the symptoms of the attack, people need to realize that this asthma varies from individual to individual. Anyone of the possible symptoms can cause an attack. Generally Asthma is classified into two categories. These are called as intrinsic asthma and the other is called as extrinsic asthma. There are different triggers for both types of asthma and it is important that both are considered so that exacerbation can be handled effectively.

To start off, one of the symptoms that cause asthma attack is the shortness of breath. Breathing becomes very difficult if a person is attacked from asthma. This shortness of breath is also caused by a number of factors. The list of factors has to deal with the type of asthma. Pollen can cause this attack; also the smoke that comes out from tobacco can be a reason for attack. A number of patients that have felt asthma attack due to breathing problem have also identified that wheezing occurs before the attack. This is just one of the many symptoms of asthma attack.

Asthma exacerbation is also caused due to continuous problem with breathing and leading to coughing and chest pain. Chest pain is caused due to contraction of muscles and breathing is hindered due to contraction of airways. As soon as the person gets to feel these attacks, it is recommended that he may immediately consult doctor as severity can cause death. There are many steps through which exacerbation can be handled. A proper understanding and following of these steps can make the situation easier.

Ways to overcome Exacerbation of Asthma

As the study of Asthma exacerbation has improved, it is now seen that the first thing to do after the attack is to sit on a bed or a sofa or even on ground. Cross your legs and ensure that you have relaxed your muscles. Take a few smaller breaths and then please don’t take a longer breath. Rather take a even smaller breath as the muscle contraction is easily handled due to it. You have to do the process a couple of times so that there is no pressure on your chest and it becomes easier for you to continue breathing.

There are medicines that are recommended for Asthma exacerbation and these medicines can be used if the exercise fails. There is a proper proportion of the medicine and generally it is one third. This will also help us to know the level of the attack. It also creates space for the doctors to deal with the attack and treatment can be done easily if steps are followed.

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Defining Asthma Exacerbation

If you have concerns for Asthma and patients suffering from this painful infection, you must have heard about its different types and different medical terms that are used by medical consultants to describe this condition. One of these terms is asthma exacerbation that is nothing but an alternate term for the attack of asthma. During the attack or exacerbation, respiratory tract is the major part of human body that is affected and deteriorated with the passage of time. Respiratory tract is divided and subdivided into finer tracts; these fine parts are tightened due to the accumulation of mucus in these parts. The constriction of these fine tubules leads towards difficult and painful breathing.

Many things present in your environment can trigger the disease and severity of attack. Therefore, patients must be provided quick and effectual treatment for provision of relief. Many of the triggers are known for their ability to cause this condition, a severe type of asthma attack. The doctors and researcher have not yet defined the major trigger of the disease. The disease is considered incurable till date due to many facts. It might be that the lack of knowledge about the causal agent has prevented the scientists to reach an effectual drug for the treatment of the disease. Among other causes, the knowledge of the many triggering agents and different cause and different level of symptoms for different persons might have confused the researchers to reach one or more effective drugs that can provide relief to the victims of asthma.

Asthma exacerbation is caused by allergens (e.g. molds and pollens), irritants (strong smell plus smoke), and sensitivity of the patients to medication of different infections, extreme mental stress, chest or heartburn diseases and excessive exercise. The major impact of these triggers include tightness of chest cavity, painful breathing requiring power of lungs, wheezing that comes out when patients try to force oxygen into their lungs, periodic cough, severe panic and blueness of skin due to lack of oxygen.

Asthma Exacerbation is classified into four different types or categories depending upon the severity, symptoms and some other factors. Fist category is the mild or intermittent asthma in which attack or symptoms occur twice in one week at maximum or only during two times a month. The second category of this ailment is known as mild persistent asthma in medical terms that accompanies attack or appearance of symptoms more than twice during one week. The rate of attack is more than two times a month but it never exceeds thirty times a month or more than once in one day.

Third category of asthma exacerbation is named as moderate persistent asthma that is characterized with occurrence of attack everyday or multiple nights in one week. Fourth category is called severe persistent asthma that is the worst of all. It is characterized with symptoms everyday and attack may occur multiple times during one day or during a night. It is clear that all the four categories of asthma are based on the occurrence of attack.