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Treatments of Asthma
The goal of treatment is to achieve a normal, active life.
In addition to preventing environmental allergens and irritants, we must resort to drugs, at least during the crisis (in the best, or mild asthma) while the moderate and severe stages require daily medications.
The drugs used in asthma are classified into two main groups:
Bronchodilators
Have a rapid effect, relaxing the muscle cells of the airways. They are used to relieve symptoms. There are three main types of bronchodilators: beta-agonists, anticholinergics and theophylline.
Inflammatory
Also called prophylactic effect by reducing inflammation of the airways. They have no immediate effect and require regular use and maintained to achieve their best effects. A good indicator is the reduced use of bronchodilators. There are also three groups: corticosteroids, chromones and leukotriene antagonists. Read the rest of this entry »
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Asthma: How is It Diagnosed?
How is it diagnosed?
It is not always easy to reach the diagnosis in mild or intermittent cases, moreover, a single attack does not mean they have asthma, as some infections and chemicals can cause a similar crisis. For a diagnosis is necessary for your doctor to investigate the characteristics of their symptoms during the attack. During auscultation will reveal wheezing that help the diagnosis.
Pulmonary function tests repeated, and repeated after the administration of certain drugs are useful for diagnosis.
Sometimes you have to perform chest x-ray studies, blood tests and arterial blood (ABG) for the diagnosis.
When there are also eczema or allergy symptoms may be needed specific tests and skin tests for sensitivity to certain substances. Read the rest of this entry »
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Asthma: What are The Symptoms?
People with asthma have provided a slight inflammation of the airways, even without symptoms. During an asthma attack or major crisis are:
- Difficulty breathing, shortness of breath. Usually appears more or less abrupt and may worsen at night or at dawn and it is aggravated by breathing cold air, their relief is usually spontaneous and gives a great improvement with the use of bronchodilator medications.
- Noisy breathing, wheezing and gasping breath, which requires a great job of the respiratory muscles, and it gets worse with exercise.
- Cough, mainly at night, with slight expectoration of mucus. Read the rest of this entry »
Asthma
What is asthma?
Asthma is a chronic disease of the airways in the crisis alternating respiratory distress and cough caused by inflammation of the bronchi, with relatively normal periods. Seizures may be mild, moderate or severe, with a variable length from a few minutes to several days, and can occur at any time.
The airway is like a tree, which is a main trunk, trachea, 2-3 cm in diameter, which starts at the bottom of the pharynx and divides into two branches, the bronchi, a for each lung. These in turn are re-divided several times to reach the most remote parts of the lung tissue as small tract of a few millimeters in diameter. The latter have an inner lining that produces mucus, and its wall is muscle cells as a ring, able to contract and relax to open or close these routes according to the needs of the person at different times (for example, open to allow passage of air during exercise, and most are closed during sleep). Read the rest of this entry »
Dermatitis Skin Disease and its Prevention
There are many illnesses that attack the human skin, one of which is dermatitis. Dermatitis is a skin disorder with subjective symptoms of itching. The disease is usually characterized by a rash that generally bounded polimorfi and firmly. The skin looked inflamed and irritated. this inflammation can happen anywhere but most often affected are the hands and feet.
There is indeed dermatitis disease indiscriminately, of all people both young and old “likely” this disease. Usually the disease appears in infants aged two years. The more a person age increases, this dermatitis disease could disappear by itself. However, in some cases there is someone who for all his life affected by this disease.
Types of dermatitis
Type of disease that is often referred to as eczema by most people, having some kind, one of which is a disease of atopy dermatitis, the dermatitis of this type of disease, a condition where chronic inflammation of the skin occurs and residif, accompanied by itching. This disease usually have a history / stigmata atopy (a group of diseases in individuals who have a history of sensitivity to allergens in the family, such as asthma, bronchial, allergic path).
Phase dermatitis disease
There are two phases that are usually experienced by people with dermatitis. First, Phase children, this phase began with the emergence of sub-acute dermatitis. This type of dermatitis tends to be dry. Dermatitis often appears in the folding elbow / knee. Second, mature phase, this phase is accompanied by the appearance of hyperpigmentation (excess pigment in the skin that can cause black color on the infected scar), hiperkeratosis and likenifikasi (skin thickening and increased clarity normal lines of the skin).
To prevent this disease there are different ways beberpa handling of them is hispatologi examination (lesions of acute, chronic) and conduct a series of test sticks and paste (positive reaction after 24 – 48 hours).
How to prevent dermatitis
1. Keep the skin to avoid humidity by temperature changes.
2. Avoid sweating too much or too hot.
3. Reduce Stress.
4. Avoid soaps with ingredients that are too hard,
5. If you are allergic to it avoid trigger allergies, like dust, animal fur
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Founder Factors Asthma In Children
Asthma is a common disease in children. Incidence of asthma increased in almost all the world, both countries developed and developing countries including Indonesia. This increase was allegedly associated with an increase in the industry that high pollution levels.
Although based on clinical experience and research of asthma is a disease that is often found in children, but the clinical picture of asthma in children vary greatly, even the heavy-light-attack and often lack the attacks change from time to time. As a result of this disorder are not diagnosed or wrong diagnosis sometimes leading to treatment was not strong.
Generally characterized with clinical symptoms of shortness of breath and wheezing (breathing that sounds). Group of children who are reasonably suspected asthma children who showed a cough and / or wheezing that occur in episodic, likely at night / early morning, seasonal, after the event, as well as a history of asthma and atopy in patients and their families.
Is it asthma?
Based on the definition and clinical experience Scadding Godfrey, asthma in children is a disease characterized by wide variations in short periods of time than the resistance of air flow in the pulmonary respiratory tract manifests as recurrent attacks of coughing or wheezing separated by symptom-free intervals.
Change what’s happening on the network?
- Reduction in airway diameter
- Changes in respiratory muscle response
- Disturbances in the autonomic innervation of smooth muscle regulation respiratory
- Epithelial cell damage respiratory mucosa
Trigger factors of asthma in children:
- Emotional factors; emotional disturbances can cause constriction of respiratory tract
- Factors immunological / allergy; now has a lot of evidence that allergy is one of the important factors of asthma development. Atopy is a real risk factor that can cause asthma symptoms.
- Non-allergic factors; viral / bacterial and irritant substances / pollutants.
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Recognizing Symptoms of Cough
Cough is one of the specific events experienced by each person in your life. These are the facts underlying various causes of cough. The cause of cough should be considered to cough due to infections, allergies, asthma, sinusitis, gastrointestinal disorders in the stomach, choking and coughing because of the psychological (stress).
Symptoms may cough from other symptoms such as fever, weight loss, shortness of breath.
First review of the symptoms of cough begins with the subject (history), patient age, history of previous illness, smoking, dark history, belching, history of weight loss, family history of cough -, also the history of environmental pollution, such as house dust upgrade, smoke from wood smoke, the move to new smells, history of stressful work or personal relationships with colleagues working at home. The ongoing review of these symptoms are cough, expectoration of mucus in sputum, dry cough ENT but lower respiratory tract, such as breast imaging (X). Blood tests are recommended blood flow velocity (SLE), liver and kidney function and blood sugar.
The treatment of symptoms of cough is naturally adapted to the causes. But that early treatment may disadvantage given cough medicines are freely sold in pharmacies and drugstores.
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