Bronchial asthma
The so-called asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the respiratory tract that is featured by a so-called bronchial hypersensitivity that goes along with a restriction of the respiratory tract. This restriction can become reversed by medication therapy.
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You have to differentiate between an allergic asthma and a non-allergic asthma, whereat the first form of asthma is often caused by triggers like pollen, house dust mites and animal proteins. Talking about the allergic form of asthma there is no allergic disposition. Often infectious diseases or medications can trigger the attack of asthma. Besides this also mixed-forms of asthma are known.
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A prevention measure when it comes to bronchial asthma is especially the avoidance of active and passive smoking. Having a known of suffering from allergic asthma the patient should get out of the way of all the allergens as good as he/she can manage.
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Respiratory distress attacks, cough, dry and chesty cough and wheezing breath sounds. All these symptoms can occur in combination.
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The diagnosis is made by a profound elicitation of the patient’s medical history, a physical examination and an auscultation of the lung and the lung function, ideally a whole-body plethysmography . Allergic asthma is diagnosed by an allergy test.
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Besides the period of restriction of allergens causing the bronchial asthma and the giving up passive and active smoking there are some very successful medication therapies that lead to a substantial control of the bronchial asthma. Here especially the aerosols or powder mixtures that contain from adrenocortical steroids or a beta2-sympathomimetic drugs. If these medications do not lead to a freedom of the symptoms we can also apply, in addition, a so-called systemic therapy in form of tablets (eg. theophyilline or montekulast). Only when it comes to severe attacks of asthma a systemic dispensation becomes necessary which means that cortisone is brought into the blood circulation.
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