Chronic Asthma
Read about Chronic
Asthma presented in simple easy to understand
language
Asthma is a very common disease among the
human population . out of every twenty people one person shows
symptoms of asthma. It is far more prominent among children where
the probability is ten is to one. However most of the cases of
asthma are not that serious. In most cases you just have fever and
the occasional asthma attack triggered by dust ,cold or pollen
exposure. These patients recover from there symptoms quickly
sometimes even without even medication or corrective therapy.
However there are a few number of people who develop more chronic
symptoms and hence come under the category of chronic asthma. In
these kind of people the coughing, shortness of breadth and wheezing
never seems to end . often such people require a large number of
medications on a regular basis. due to continued antigenic exposure
a chronic cell-mediated inflammation takes place. This chronic state
is more difficult to characterize and understand. Confusion is more
caused when antigen response comes from food eaten daily and acute
responses overly chronic inflammatory activity in a complex and
variable system of symptom production. Due to persistent and
recurrent symptoms the people suffering from chronic asthma require
daily doses of medication.
Some of the Long Term Medicational drugs
required for the Treatment of Chronic Asthma include
1.Inhaled corticosteroids
2.Long acting beta 2 agonists
3.Leukotriene modifiers
4.Crmolyn
5.Theophyline
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