What Is Asthma

There are a lot of health problems that people encounter nowadays which includes asthma attacks. This can actually occur at any age bracket and can be due to various environmental factors as well as ones particular lifestyle. If you are one of those who are suffering from this kind of health issue, you will definitely want to know how to deal with this properly. Here are a few pointers for you to look into.The first thing that you will have to keep in mind is that you should be able to detect the symptoms of asthma before doing anything else. These attacks may happen for a certain time when you are caught off guard, but if you know what the symptoms are, you may as well be able to prevent an attack from coming and at the same time deal with it properly.The symptoms may include having to deal with difficulty in breathing, having that heavy feeling on the chest, breathing with a whistling sound as well as coughing. Such symptoms may be triggered by a lot of things mostly related to environmental factors including chemicals present within the area, pets, microorganisms as well as food and climate can aggravate and cause asthma.Now that you know the symptoms and the causes that may trigger such asthma attacks, there are a few things that you can do to make sure that you are not caught unaware of any particular emergency situation. If you are with a person is prone to such attacks, you should take note of certain precautionary measures that will help you prevent any asthma attacks to happen again. Keeping the air clean in the environment where the patient is and works all the time is a must. Making use of an air humidifier will help lessen such attack issues.However let us say that this is the first time that you do see the symptoms occurring to the person for the first time and you don't know if this could be asthma or what. During emergency cases, you will have to determine if the patient is currently having that much difficulty in breathing ad if this is the case the patient will need enough ventilation and air. Usually an adult asthma patient will already know what to do, but if it is a child you will have to act quickly to help the child regain normal breathing pattern. It is as well important that during emergency cases, you act as quickly as you can to be able to bring the patient to the hospital to go through the proper procedure in dealing with this medical emergency.Lastly, you will have to make sure that the patient takes the proper medical treatment to know what options are available when it comes to dealing with asthma attacks. You do not just easily opt for instant relief but you must aim for total prevention. We all know that these attacks may or may not be fatal for the patient. But as soon as you know how to deal with it properly, you do not have to worry yourself all the time.

Asthma therapy, to those who have spent a lifetime dealing with the impact asthma has on every aspect of their lives may seem like a far-fetched dreams. Though honestly, if you've suffered with asthma and the frightening attacks on your ability to breathe that go along with it, then you should be willing to step out on a limb a bit and try something new. Especially if this something new offers the promise of lasting relief from this hated disease and never needing to endure breathing treatments or traditional asthma therapy again.Kicking the InhalerHaven't you always dreamed of the opportunity to kick your inhaler to the curb once and for all? Did you know that relief from stress can be one of the key ingredients in making that happen? It's true. You can make strides towards an asthma free life where you can breathe freely each and every day by learning to control the stress, panic, fear, and anxiety that are taking a toll on your health and well being. This type of asthma therapy may lead you to living a life without your inhaler at your beck and call.Relaxation as Asthma Therapy? Considering the fact that many asthma attacks are brought on as a result of stress and/or anxiety it makes sense that learning to remove stress or at the very least to reduce stress in your life would be beneficial as asthma therapy. Learning to breathe deeply is one relaxation technique that is sure to help you find relief from this dreaded disease but you can find breathing treatments of another kind by incorporating yoga, relaxing hobbies, daily walks, and other relaxation exercises into your normal daily routine. When you combine these with hypnotherapy, NLP, and self hypnosis you will notice even greater improvement in your overall health along with fewer asthma attacks. Can you ask for more from your asthma therapy?Relief from Asthma through HypnotherapyThe human bind is designed to heal itself of many ailments and conditions. When you learn to harness the power that the mind has over the body you really can begin to experience true healing even from conditions like asthma that feel as though they impact ever inch of your body. Hypnotherapy for the treatment of asthma is not intended to be used instead of medical treatment but in order to enhance that treatment or advance it, as the case may be.Asthma therapy can be an amazing tool for those needing relief from this terrible but treatable disease. It works because not only are you learning to relieve tension, ease anxiety, and remove stress from your life through NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) but also how to reduce your overall stress level. This will lead to fewer outbreaks-particularly those that are brought about due to stress.When you learn to harness the power of the mind over things in your life that set off your stress levels or cause your blood pressure to rise you will find that you are gaining control over so much more-including the asthma attacks that can bring you to your knees when stress levels are flying high. Take back control today by incorporating asthma therapy into your daily routine and finding real relief from asthma for good.

This information is based on a personal case study while I was training asthma sufferers to be helicopter rescue crew in Sydney. For many of you this may be interesting especially if you have ambitions to be involved in an emergency service, the military or law enforcement. And for others just wanting to start running better with asthma the same principles will apply. Here are the steps.Step 1 - Lose WeightIf you are overweight, you need to lose weight. All that extra work your body and your lungs are going to do is not going to help you running better with asthma so get your weight under control first.Step 2 - Give up smoking and reduce the alcohol intakeBelieve it or not, may asthmatics smoke. If you smoke and you run, you are setting yourself up for disaster. Reduce the alcohol intake as well. This will help with the weight loss.Step 3 - Healthy EatingReduce your intake of fried foods and vegetable oils and increase your intake of omega 3 essential fatty acids (EFA). This will help reduce the inflammatory response and will definitely contribute to running better with asthma. Increase your intake of filtered water (about 8-10 glasses per day, minimum and more if you live in a hot/humid environment and/or you sweat a lot). Consume lots of green leafy vegetables - these tend to be higher in magnesium, manganese and other minerals that support healthy lung function. A liquid mineral supplement will also help significantly.Ideally you should supplement your diet with additional essential fatty acids. As an asthmatic, you need to be consuming about 5 gm of EFA per day and you can really only achieve this through supplements. You'll be surprised how much of a difference this will make!Step 4 - Warm up & Start Slowly

In the past several years asthma is becoming more common among people and it is especially becoming a serious problem for our children. Since 1978 it has skyrocketed so much that this chronic condition is out of control. If something isn't done to prevent this, I believe that the growth in asthma numbers we will experience by the year 2025 could be in the hundreds of millions. The rising asthma numbers is alarming and people should start to take action to either prevent it or eliminate it, once it is contracted. Once it is contracted you have little or no choice but to go on prescription drugs. Try to avoid the deadly asthma attacks that could come from nowhere. This disease does not target people of certain age. It will come after anyone that has a weak immune system or has family in their past that had asthma as well.There are pieces of a puzzle missing as to what is causing asthma. The missing pieces to that puzzle are "what can I do to prevent or eliminate asthma". There are many speculations on what causes asthma and why it becoming such a serious problem. One is like I mentioned earlier that it may be something that is hereditary in your family tree. Another theory is weak lungs that are vulnerable to this disease that strikes with little or no warning. Another theory is and this one is the one that I believe to be the biggest factor in contracting asthma, environmental pollution. The environmental pollution that surrounds our earth just on the jet stream alone is 1460 metric tons. That is a staggering number when you consider that all of us no matter what age or where we live, are breathing this stuff in on a daily basis. It cannot be avoided. We must find a way to fight against it or the number of asthma patients will become a very serious problem sooner than later.Let's talk about prescription drugs. When you go in to see your doctor to find out if you have asthma, he will take what is called a peak flow meter to test the air flow in and out of your lungs. This will tell him how well air moves into the lungs. This can take some time because determining if someone has asthma should be diagnosed properly. This can take some time so plan on your first visit being a couple of hours. Another time factor is learning what triggers are causing you to have asthma attacks. Once your doctor has diagnosed your symptoms, he will prescribe you drugs, an emergency inhaler and in some severe cases a nebulizer for daily treatments. This is what happens when you are given this as your only choice. They control your symptoms only and will not eliminate it. If you're a young child the chances of outgrowing asthma are definitely on your side but nothing is for sure. If you are like me, the sound of having my symptoms only controlled but not eliminated sounds like a long road. With that come a lot of unneeded toxins in my body called "side effects" of prescription drugs.When my son was diagnosed with asthma at the age of 4, I did what everyone else has done for many years. I went to see my doctor and I got my son on prescription drugs. He got an inhaler and because of the severity of his attacks, I was given a nebulizer. There was a short time frame in which to administer it to him. As a parent is was unbearable to see my little boy struggling to breathe. I wished so much I could take it on myself, which unfortunately, I could not do. So I did the nest best thing. I went in search of something that could eliminate it completely from his body. In my research, I looked at environmental pollution exposure as the cause of what I believed to be the reason he got asthma in the first place. We discovered a natural way to remove the toxic burden that was evidently in my child. In a short time his asthma slowly faded and 2 years later, asthma is nothing but a memory for him. His prescription drugs and inhaler are now collecting dust on a shelf from non use. Is asthma a serious problem? You bet it is. Can we overcome it or eliminate it? I believe you can with research and gifts from Mother Nature.

If you have asthma, you may find it that running or exercising is difficult.If you want to know the secret to running better with asthma , you may find that you need an entire life change.In some instances, changing your diet and exercise habits can allow you to run without being disturbed by closing airways and potential asthma attacks.There are five easy steps that will allow you to master the techniques of running with asthma. Lose The Extra Pounds If you find yourself with a couple of extra pounds, consider losing them in order to make you run more effectively, even with your asthma.The more you weigh, the more pressure you have on your body and lungs.Especially if you are battling asthma, this extra pressure may be too much to handle.Also, people who are overweight have other medical problems that can affect your asthma problems.

So, You Might Ask, Why the Absurd Title?Well, wouldn't you agree that the typical household has their carpets professionally cleaned once or twice a year? And if they entertain very much, their carpets may be professionally cleaned three or four times per year. Again, wouldn't you agree that our carpets are also vacuumed once every week, or two? This is great, because carpets, especially those in a bedroom, collect allergens and can be home to as many as 50,000 allergen producing dust mites.How often do we have our mattresses and pillows, items that we have intimate contact with eight hours a day, professionally cleaned? Never, nor do we even clean them ourselves, weekly, or every other week! Bed linens yes,...but not the mattresses nor the pillows.But do we sleep on our cleaned and vacuumed carpets? No, at least not normally. We are sane people, who sleep in our beds...our beds, that have NEVER been professionally cleaned, nor have the pillows, that we lay our heads upon, ever been professionally cleaned. So obviously, it would be more logical and even healthier, to sleep on our cleaned and vacuumed carpets!Our unhygienic mattresses and unhygienic pillows harbor, on average, 2,000,000 dust mites and sometimes as many as 10,000,000 dust mites! Dust mites produce a digestive enzyme so powerful that it breaks down and kills living tissue. This digestive enzyme, called guanine, is excreted as a potent and very harmful allergen. Dust mites excrete 20 to 30 fecal pellets each day. Doing the math, that's the equivalent of 40 to 60 million fecal pellets accumulating in our mattress EACH DAY! The fecal pellets are approximately 15 microns in size but as they dry out they become powdery and decompose into even finer particulates. These particulates are then easily inhaled by YOU when fluffing a pillow or tossing and turning at night which, on average, happens 50 to 60 times per night.Dust mites are responsible for 80% to 90% of allergenic compounds found in house dust. Although dust mites and dust mite allergens (DMA's) can be found throughout a home the vast majority of dust mites live, thrive, and breed, in the micro-habitat of a mattress and pillow. It's time to incorporate regularly scheduled mattress and pillow cleaning in routine housekeeping practices.In any average home, Indoor Air Quality is now the worst that it has ever been and dust mites are the #1 cause of poor indoor air quality. Visit the EPA's newest website at: http://www.noattacks.org More Facts Concerning Indoor Air Pollution Asthma, "hidden" asthma, perennial rhinitis, bronchitis, sinusitis, eczema, and many more respiratory illnesses and skin disorders have INCREASED every year since 1980.

Many people who have asthma can drastically reduce their asthma and the wheeziness of their chest by simply following the correct diet. This is only possible if you have a natural diet. Many asthmatics eat a lot of diary and also crave chocolates. Chocolate cravings are usually caused through magnesium deficiency and you can simply correct this by taking magnesium supplements, this will help your chocolate addiction and also ease your asthma.If you do suffer from asthma, then be sure to cut us much processed foods out of your diet as possible. Stress is a leading cause of asthma and is usually caused through improper diet. Stress, diary products and chocolate all cause you to breathe more and as an asthmatic you should reduce your breathing and avoid anything which will change the amount of volume of air that you breathe in on a regular basis.One super food that you should consider to be part of your daily diet are dates. Dates have been proven to help many diseases over the years and also help those who suffer from many of the other respiratory diseases out there. You should try eat as much raw fruit and vegetables as possible. Not only for the nutritional aspect but also because when you eat a rich raw food diet you increase your immune system which prevents you from getting ill and helps keep allergies at bay but the most important aspect of eating raw unprocessed food is that it helps keep your weight down and also helps you lose weight.Honey and ginger throughout the ages has also helped people in the far east ease their asthma, you could add it to some warm water and drink it 2-3 hours before you sleep. This will help you breathe in through your nose and also help you sleep better at night.I mentioned that asthmatics breathe heavier and larger volumes of air when compared to non-asthmatics, the reason asthma is on the rise has got to do with processed foods which is also why there is such a high rate of obesity around these days. When you are overweight you cannot breathe properly the extra fat on your diaphragm restricts your breathing causing you to breathe through your mouth which increases the amount of oxygen you intake this combined with being asthmatic is deadly.The worst part is that you will find that you need to use two types of inhalers which are the reliever and the preventer asthma medication which is the worst thing you could land up on due to a threefold increase in you dying and also landing up in hospital.You should on a regular basis exercise, eat plenty of raw food (fruit/vegetables) and consider adding dates to your diet.

Although asthma can be an expensive condition, the good news is that many Americans are able to get health insurance coverage. There are many things to consider before you choose a health insurance provider, however. Some companies may exclude those with pre-existing medical conditions, while others may approve them but have pre-existing condition exclusion periods. Still other companies will have caps on the amount of coverage provided. In order to get the most out of your health insurance, you will need to compare plans carefully.The first, and most important, thing to look for when you need health coverage for your asthma is what the health insurance policy actually covers. You will need to make sure that your plan covers hospital visits as well as routine visits to the doctor. Unfortunately, some plans limit the amount of coverage for medication and medical treatments, and it is very unlikely that you will be able to receive coverage for preventive care. You may also have to deal with chronic condition limits and pre-existing condition limits.A pre-existing condition limit simply means that if you were diagnosed before you applied for health coverage, you may be excluded from treatment for your condition for a certain period of time. Most plans limit treatment for six to eighteen months, but most employer-provided health plans have a maximum limit of twelve months. State and government plans, such as Medicaid, do not usually have these limits. A chronic condition limit can be a little trickier to deal with. It simply means that conditions that are not expected to improve within a given amount of time will not be covered. Although this does not usually apply to asthma, you should check your policy just to make sure.The cost of your health insurance is another factor to consider. You will need to look at premium rates, copayments, deductibles, and how much of your treatment you will be expected to cover. The premium is a monthly charge that will stay constant (until renewal, at least) regardless of how many claims you make. The deductible is what you will need to pay on a yearly basis before your health plan starts paying for services. The copayment refers to what you will need to pay each time you use a service - usually a very small amount. You will need to consider each of these factors to get the most coverage while spending the least amount of money.If you need assistance in locating particular coverages at a pre-determined price, we can help you save up to 50% on your health insurance monthly premium.

Asthma is a condition of the respiratory system affecting millions of people worldwide. It is a common condition, especially in children. If you are suffering from asthma, you should be in close consultation with a respiratory expert. In saying that, I credit you have found this article and for searching for a more natural approach.Thankfully, I may be able to help you in a more holistic and natural way then perhaps your G.P can.I think that it is AMAZING how I can now control my asthma to the point I can say that I have found my cure and even more AMAZING is now I can and do help countless of others around the world do the same.You see asthma is not all that intimidating to me. I DO NOT view asthma as an incurable disease, I merely view asthma as one or two symptoms of a normal bodily reaction which I can control.Below is my Top Ten Natural Ways To Prevent Asthma Symptoms.10. Get adequate Vitamin D. Asthma is an immune disorder. Vitamin D is regarded as the immune vitamin. Take stock. Get it into you!9. Eat a good enzyme rich balanced diet with plenty of fresh natural foods, vegetables and nuts and seeds.8. Eat a diet rich in anti-imflammatory foods. E.g, Spices, Garlic, Onions etc.7. Get a source of probiotics into your diet. Such as yoghurt or fermented vegetables. Another great immune booster.

Although there is no particular reason why there are so many people suffering from asthma, it is generally known that allergies can cause asthma, as a chronic condition, after some serious respiratory problems. Medication and treatment that follows an allergic reaction, aims at reducing the symptoms and cure them completely within some time, however, studies show that there is a 20% of people who develop asthma after some severe allergic reaction that caused respiratory and throat problems.Toxins and allergens that exist in our atmosphere make the situation even harder; it is said that among the asthma patients, almost half of them are allergic to dust, mold, pollen and insects, which cause serious asthmatic attacks that can be lethal if not immediately and properly treated. People who suffer from asthma have a hard time dealing with this condition, because there are just a few available solutions. One of them, a safe and natural solution is Asthma Mist.1. What Is Asthma Mist All About?Asthma Mist is a homeopathic product; it is a spray that comes fortified with natural ingredients, known to homeopathic experts for their effectiveness in different symptoms associated with asthma. Asthma Mist is a mixture of natural herbs able to deal with the most serious and frequent symptoms of asthma: wheezing, coughing, bronchial and mucous congestion or tightness in chest. It is also very effective with the most serious problem that comes with asthma - shortness of breath. Finding relief is as easy as spraying twice a day.2. What Are The Advantages Of Asthma Mist?The great advantage of Asthma Mist is that it is easily absorbed and helps the patient regain his strength and health fast, alleviating the pain and all problems associated with asthma. It is a natural formula, based on ingredients that have no side effects.3. Where To Find Asthma Mist.You can find Asthma Mist at the product's website and order it directly from there. If you visit the website of the company you will also read a lot of positive comments and testimonials written by real patients and users of Asthma Mist, who write about their good experience with this product. Keep in mind that it comes with a 90 day money back guarantee.