What Is Asthma

While there is no cure for asthma, there are many healthy eco-friendly ways to reduce or eliminate symptoms. The ideas presented here cannot replace your medical doctor's orders, but are a culmination of asthma prevention research.

Although Asthma can start at any age, it most often strikes in early childhood. Asthma is the number one chronic childhood disease believed to impact approximately 15% of all children.

In order to consider prevention or remission of symptoms, it is important to understand briefly how asthma works and why it occurs. Asthma results when air passages become inflamed and narrow, making it extremely difficult to breathe out. The inflammation swells the airways impeding, or in worse cases, completely blocking airways.

Impeding airways causes wheezing, which is the noise air makes as it is breathe out through inflamed [narrowed] tubes. If an individual's airways become too narrow, they wont be able to get oxygen into their blood and they might turn blue; get medical help immediately.

Many factors contribute to getting Asthma, including family history, cigarette smoke, allergy, stress, reaction-to-food, infection, etc. Equally there are ways to combat, lesson or eradicate Asthmatic symptoms. It is probably no surprise that asthma prevention includes modifying your environment to oppose the most common contributing factors listed above. Here are 5 basic steps you can take to begin asthma remediation;

1. Remove or reduce obvious triggers from the house and the child's environment

2. Eliminate and remove as much dust as possible

3. Use excellent air filters at home, in your car and while traveling

4. Avoid common allergens

5. Eat unprocessed healthy foods

Preventing asthma symptoms does not cure asthma, but preventing symptoms helps people, especially children, live healthier lives.