Definition and Causes of Asthma

Asthma is a long-term disease that can cause the sufferer difficult breathing, cough, and wheeze when relapse. In each person, the severity of the disease varies, and generally can be well controlled.
Asthma occurs when the airways or bronchi develop inflammation. Bronchus is shaped like a small tube is used to carry air in and out of the lungs. Bronchial asthma patients are generally more sensitive than others and more easily develop inflammation.
Overview of the symptoms of asthma
When the lungs of a patient is irritated by something that triggers asthma, the breathing becomes narrow, the muscles surrounding be tightened, and increased sputum production. Once there was a couple of symptoms such as chest tightness, difficulty breathing, wheezing, and coughing.
Severe attacks of these symptoms are known as asthma attacks or acute asthma exacerbations. People with asthma may require hospital treatment. Although rare, life-threatening asthma attacks. For patients with chronic asthma, inflammation of the windpipe that has lasted a long time and repeatedly can cause permanent narrowing.
If a person is diagnosed with asthma during childhood, symptoms may be absent when she was a teenager and reappear as adults. However, asthma symptoms were classified as moderate or severe in childhood, will tend to remain there although it may also reappear. Nevertheless, asthma can occur at any age and does not always start from childhood.
A little about the cause asthma
Asthma is a hereditary disease. A person most likely to develop asthma if one or both parents also suffer from asthma. Even so, the basic cause of this disease is still not fully understood.
Factors to be a common trigger of asthma
Understanding the trigger here is anything that can irritate the respiratory tract, ie anything yangnantinya lead to the emergence of symptoms of asthma. Common triggers of asthma in each sufferer differently.
There are several things that can be a common trigger of asthma, such as animal dander, cold air, dust mites, cigarette smoke, pollen, lung infections, and sports. Some specific activities such work may also aggravate asthma. This is termed as 'occupational asthma' or work-related asthma. Examples such as construction workers who had asthma as a result of frequent exposure to dust or sand.Overview of the diagnosis of asthma
Doctors can infer the possibility of diagnosis if you have symptoms typical of asthma. Your doctor will ask about when and how often you have these symptoms, and if you know about something that may be a trigger. Your doctor will perform a number of tests to confirm the diagnosis.Steps disease management of asthma
For asthma medication alone until now has not been found, but there are a number of handling steps that can be implemented to help control asthma. Treatment is based on two important objectives, namely to relieve symptoms and prevent asthma attacks. Both of these goals also involves a combination of medication, identification and avoidance of triggers of asthma, as well as lifestyle advice.