Bronchial asthma, the treatment of which is a complex and lengthy process, is a chronic disease. It is accompanied by shortness of breath, coughing and suffocation. Different forms of bronchial asthma are similar in that the patient's airways become excessively sensitive, and this sensitivity interferes with normal breathing. Let's talk about the symptoms and conditions of this disease.
Asthma bronchial: treatment, signs, prognosis
Chronically inflamed bronchi produce an increased amount of mucous secretion. Much more than normal. This mucus disrupts the normal passage of air, making breathing difficult. Bronchial asthma, the treatment of which with the help of hormonal drugs is very expensive, is found in people of any age. But most often, the disease manifests itself in childhood. Many children heal with age. But the number of asthmatics is still very large. Bronchial asthma, the treatment of which with the help of drugs can partially restore the ability to work for some patients, affects an increasing number of people on the planet.
At the moment, there are already more than three hundred million of them.
Chronic inflammation of the bronchi causes extreme sensitivity of patients to the presence of smoke, chemicals and other allergens in the inhaled air. When exposed to these stimuli, spasm and swelling begin, increased production of bronchial mucus. Normal breathing becomes impossible.
Asthma is allergic and non-allergic. The first is characterized by a reaction to such stimuli as dust, wool, pollen. It is seasonal in nature, accompanied by a runny nose, redness of the skin, and some symptoms of vegetovascular dystonia. The second type of asthma develops regardless of contact with allergens. Often due to past respiratory diseases. The non-allergenic form of asthma is also associated with poor tolerance to neuropsychic stress, hormonal disorders, and various viral infections. This form of the disease is more severe and depletes the patient much more. The main symptom of any type of asthma is a severe painful cough. It occurs both at rest and after physical exertion, after the patient has inhaled cold or polluted air.
Help with an attack of bronchial asthma
Choking occurs suddenly. Often this happens at night. Over time, the patient learns to recognize the onset of a suffocating attack in advance by tickling in the throat, itching in the nasopharynx. If possible, take a sitting position. Attacks can last from a few minutes to hours. It is difficult for the patient to breathe, a cough strangles him, whistling and wheezing are heard in the chest. Light seizures can go away on their own, and in severe cases, emergency care is needed. In your home medicine cabinet you need to keep a list of drugs: Adrenaline, Tavegil, Prednisolone, Atropine, Eufillin, Hydrocortisone, Galidor. After the onset of the attack, the patient needs to be planted, open the window, unfasten tightly buttoned clothes on asthmatics. Give a bronchodilator in the inhaler. The patient should take two or four breaths at first, and after he gets better - two breaths every five minutes until the end of the attack. Then you need to take an anti-allergenic drug (Suprastin, Tavegil) and call a doctor. If it is not possible to stop the attack within thirty minutes, the asthmatic should be urgently taken to the hospital.