Right and Wrong Assumptions About Asthma (part 2)

Continued of "Right and Wrong Assumptions About Asthma (part 1)".

6. People with asthma should not exercise. 

Exercise is important for health, including for people with asthma. Just do not select the type of sport that is too exhausting. It's important to understand by parents who have children with asthma. Do not forbids children participate in sports. The ban would cause children to feel different from other children and create a sense of inferiority. Give them a chance to play like other children, only advised not to be too tired. Can also be given an inhaler before playing to widen the respiratory tract to prevent an asthma attack after exercise. So let your child participate in sports at school or playing at home.

7. Asthma is a mild disease. 

This assumption may appear in mild asthma, which after using the drug, the patient can recover immediately. Actually, asthma can be divided into three groups: mild, moderate, and heavy. In patients with heavy asthma, must be careful to avoid these heavy asthma attacks. This usually happens due to forgetting to take medicine or exposure to trigger factors of asthma. Some forms of heavy acute asthma attack needs to be hospitalized to be treated and even sometimes in intensive care. If not treated properly, asthma (especially heavy asthma) can cause death. So don't ignore an asthma attack. You need to know the correct steps to be taken to address the symptoms of asthma.

8. People with asthma should not smoke. 

True, an asthmatic respiratory tract are very sensitive (hyper reactive). Because it is easily aroused by a variety of smoke, including cigarette smoke. People with asthma should not smoke, should not even be around people that are smoking. It should be noted by the employees that work in air-conditioned room. If you smoke indoors, it will damage the health of other employees, especially for employees with asthma.

9. There is no cure for asthma. 

Asthma caused by sensitive (hyperactive) respiratory tract, thus easily aroused by various stimulus. When the stimulus is gone and the constriction of the airways can be corrected with drugs that widen the the respiratory tract, then the patient will feel better. Asthma symptoms will disappear. But when the patient exposed again by trigger factors such as dust, then the asthma attack may occur again. This is because, eliminating the sensitivity of the respiratory tract is not easy. In children, the respiratory tract sensitivity can be better. Thus, someone that has asthma as a child, most of the asthma will disappear before the adults. Sensitivity of the respiratory tract can also be reduced by the use of topical steroid medication (drugs used to prevent asthma attacks). But these drugs should be used constantly. So it is up to now there is no drug that can be used to treat asthma in the short term.

10. Bedrooms people with asthma should be clean. 

True. House dust is one of the factors that cause asthma attacks. Therefore, the patient environment including bed as much as possible to be clean of house dust. Do not put the various items that can keep dust in the bedroom, such as carpets, books, magazines, toys, feathers, etc.. Clean up your house from house dust on a regular basis to reduce asthma attacks.

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