Asthma treatment

Asthma is a spasmodic affection of the respiratory system, when it is easy to inhale (inspiration) but difficult to exhale (expiration). Spasms are reflex in nature. Nasal mucus membrane or alimentary tract are the sources of irritation. Generally, asthma usually comes at night or in the middle of night when the patient sits up, pants, makes ineffectual efforts to breathe out. He wants to cough and thus expel his sputum out but he cannot, as his lungs do not expand and fresh air also enters with much difficulty. If there is nasal blockade, the problem is still more serious. Sometimes, due to strenuous efforts to breath- and cough out sputum, his face, fingers become blue also, there may be extreme coldness and general prostration, extremities may be cold. < from cold, cold eatables and drinks, moist winds, injyinter, rainy season, from certain irritants, sensitivity to certain drugs. The patient gasps for breath, exhausts even on slightest exertion, impacted respiration, perspiration. Profuse expectoration provides much desired relief to the patient but attacks may occur again, with varied intensity.

Some sprays (medicated) are available in the market. Inhalation from such sprays clears congestion in chest/ lungs, brings out sputum and thus provides relief, even though temporarily, to the patient. But patients are advised to use such ’spray’ in emergent conditions only, and never daily or as a matter of habit. Keep fully covered with warm clothes. Give, if at all needed, only hot beverages but not cold drinks. In allergic asthma, a voidance of known causes is the only way out. Sometimes going to new places may also show fruitful results. Those who fall ill, during a certain weather-condition, are advised, if possible, to shift in reverse conditions. In case of a patient (young lady) who developed attacks of asthma in dry weather, she was married and got service in a coastal town where her husband was also posted. Change of place, from dry to moist, proved so effective that she has no asthma, even a trace thereof, for the past 22 years. Those who are worst in moist weather, have their symptoms ameliorated, after shifting to places where climate is dry. But shifting of place is not easy because it has certain inherrent problems. A patient used to have asthama attacks in summer, when there were dust-raising hot winds. He used to shift to some hill station during summer days and thus got rid of asthma once forever.

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