Asthma Allergies and Bronchial Information

This area of the Disabled World website deals with bronchial conditions, asthma, and allergies and includes articles concerning asthmatic problems and conditions.

Asthma is a chronic illness involving the respiratory system in which the airway occasionally constricts, becomes inflamed, and is lined with excessive amounts of mucus, often in response to one or more triggers.

In some individuals asthma is characterized by chronic respiratory impairment. In others it is an intermittent illness marked by episodic symptoms that may result from a number of triggering events, including upper respiratory infection, stress, airborne allergens, air pollutants, or exercise.

Control of episodes of wheezing and shortness of breath is generally achieved with fast-acting bronchodilators.

Allergies Bronchial and Chest Articles

Famous People with Asthma
Listing of well known and famous persons both living and deceased who have and suffered from Asthma.

What Causes Allergies?
What is the cause of allergies? Contrary to what you have been told: you are not allergic to pollen, pet dander, or whatever it is that makes your body revolt! Rather, your body just can not handle that one thing, whatever it is anymore, due to the massive barrage of toxic chemicals you and everyone else are ingesting every single day.

How to get Rid of the Flu
The first indication for flu and cough is having phlegm and itchy sensation in throat. These indicate that the body is fighting against the infection. The white blood cells in the body excrete such chemicals in order to stop the increasing number of virus. It is better to do something about nose, throat, chest pain, throat irritation. Many people believe that milk and other dairy products increase the phlegm, although it is not true.

Asthma is not Just a Summer Disease
Although it may seem to make sense that asthma is largely a summer disease, since pollen is one of the major triggering factors, in fact, asthma occurs year-round. It is true that asthmatic children's parents do need to gear up for the summer months, because high pollen counts from grasses and other plants make exposure very common.

What are Asthma Symptoms?
If you think you might have asthma, here are some signs and symptoms that can help you distinguish between a simple cold or flu virus and the advent of asthma and/or an impending asthma attack.

What is an Asthma Trigger?
Triggers vary among sufferers, but some of the most common include dust, animal hair, and pollen. Whatever your particular trigger(s), it will require some detective work to figure out what your particular ones are.

Asthma in Children is Becoming More Frequent
A visit to any school these days will find as many asthma inhalers among its students as Gameboys or cell phones. Why is it that asthma in children has become so widespread? For one thing, asthma is genetic, but that's not why it has become so common.

Dust Mites and Asthma
Ah, the almighty dust mite. It used to be thought that although dust mites, indeed, do look creepy crawly and pretty scary when you look at them up close (you must magnify them to look at them, as they are microscopic insects), that they were relatively harmless.

Doctors Stubborn with Asthma Relief
Many asthma sufferers may know that there are alternative treatments to dealing with asthma who, in addition to the inhalers and medications on the market in traditional or allopathic medicines.

Effects Pollution has on Asthma Sufferers
Pollution is one factor that has become increasingly common in exacerbating asthma symptoms among sufferers. Other factors include our increasingly sedentary lifestyles, our lack of exposure to dirt and germs so that we don't build up immunities, and the like.

The Grandmother of all Colds
I have a cold now and I want the world to know that I feel that death is the only thing that will make me feel better. The only real relief there is when you feel as lousy as I do, is to whine and moan about your illness, until those around you are ready to put you out of your misery. I know that most people would prefer I shut my mouth and suffer in silence, but that would rob me of the only pleasurable activity possible during my cold!

Sinusitis may Appear as a Cold
A sinusitis infection may appear to be a common cold when it first begins. Cold symptoms such as runny nose, cough, and congestion generally exist.

Asthma - How to Help Someone having an Attack
Maybe you are having dinner with a friend and all of a sudden, she looks panic stricken and gasps for breath. Or perhaps your children's friends have come over to your house and your daughter screams that her best friend can't breathe.

Asthma Allergies and the Atmospheres Cure
Coughing, wheezing, and shortness of breath - these symptoms are all too familiar to those who suffer from asthma. Sadly, the number of people being diagnosed with this lung disorder is on the rise and has been since the late 1980's.

Types of Asthma
To properly treat asthma it is important to classify a patient's current severity to determine the appropriate therapy choices; therefore a stepwise approach is used. Asthma is classified as either mild intermittent or persistent.

Tips for Managing Asthma
Asthma is characterised by attacks of breathlessness, tight chest, wheezing and coughing which are caused by the airways becoming narrowed and inflamed. Some people may have these symptoms all of the time and others may be normal between attacks.

Common Cold and Influenza - What is the Difference
Both common cold and flu give symptoms from the ear, nose and throat, fever and symptoms from the rest of the body, and the symptoms of both diseases can vary between mild and very bad. By common cold, the symptoms from the windpipe come first and remain as the main symptoms.

How to Fight the Common Cold and Flu
Many different viruses can cause colds and flu. They are passed on by inhaling infected droplets that have been sneezed or coughed into the air or by touching an area with live infection.

How to Recognize Typical Asthma Symptoms
Asthma is one of the most rapidly growing health problems – not only in the United States, but in the world. Between 2002 and 2004, the incidence of reported asthma rose over 4% - a startling statistic, and even more startling when you consider that many people don’t even recognize an asthma symptom, and it goes undiagnosed.

The Maharishi Ayurveda Approach to Allergies
Some individuals are born with allergies, and have a genetic susceptibility to them. However, most allergies are acquired after birth. While inborn allergies can often be helped by the measures discussed in this article, acquired allergies are generally more responsive to such behavioral approaches, and are the main focus of this article.

Immunotherapy Treatment
There is no cure for most life-threatening allergies so, for the majority of severe allergy sufferers, avoidance of the specific allergens that trigger their reactions and being prepared to treat those that occur with an immediate shot of epinephrine are the only options.

Steps to Asthma Self Help
Because asthma can be caused, triggered or worsened by so many things, there are many things that you can do to lessen the frequency and severity of the symptoms.

What are the Most Common Asthma Triggers?
Identifying a food or environmental asthma trigger can help you avoid it  and lessen the risk of an acute asthma attack.

Cold And Flu Tips
A few tips to help keep you healthy this cold and flu season. Hopefully this year you will spend less time with the sniffles and more time enjoying the winter season.

Allergies and Snoring
The woman who divorced her noisy partner told her friends that she was allergic to his snoring. What she didn't realize is that his snoring was due to allergies.

Sinus Headache Relief
Sinus headache is a result of inflammation in the passage behind the cheeks, nose and eyes. It causes a severe pain in the face or the forehead that at times becomes benumbing.

Flu Vaccines are not Prevention
How would you like to hear some objective, and less commercialized, information on whether, or not, you should get a flu shot? How will getting a flu shot help keep you protected, or not protected, from getting the flu in the next upcoming flu season?

Allergic Reactions
After thirty years on this planet, I have only just learned of the diveristy of allergic reactions, and only just begun to experience their harsh reality. My learning curver started during my teaching my second semester of high school Math.

Getting Rid of Common Cold Symptoms - Facts about Zinc and Vitamin C
The facts, which cannot be disputed, are that both zinc and vitamin C common cold remedies may be helpful in getting rid of common cold symptoms. Both are necessary for human health and both are important for proper immune system function.

Clearing up Sinusitis
To ease your sinus symptoms, opt for horseradish. It is effective in treating throat and upper respiratory tract infections. Horseradish produces a volatile oil that works as a nasal and bronchial dilator.

Hay Fever - Not Actually A Fever
Hay fever has been given many different names such as allergic rhinitis, pollinosis or nasal allergies. You can contract hay fever due to certain air borne dust particles exposed in the environment.

Get Rid of Hay Fever
Symptoms of hay fever resemble a cold, except that they occur only at particular times, during certain seasons or weather patterns (hay fever), and around certain animals or small household pests.

Breathing Properly Can Give You Energy
Did you know that breathing is the only essential bodily function performed unconsciously, that you can control consciously? Your body can go without food for months, water for weeks and yet your body can't go without oxygen for more than a few minutes.

Asthma Cough Productive Treatment
When dealing with an asthma cough, productive treatment should include regular use of a bronchodilator to help loosen up the muscles around the bronchial tubes. Those muscles put a stranglehold on the airways and make it almost impossible to force air in and out of them.

Asthma Allergy - Current Medical Treatment
Asthma allergy is a chronic lung disease characterized by difficulty of breathing, wheezing, coughing, and increased mucus production during recurrent attacks. These same symptoms can cause death in some cases depending on the severity of the amount of allergens involved and antihistamine molecules produced by the body enough to block the airways for the transportation of air to the lungs.

Asthma Steps to Help your Child
Childhood breathing problems can be stressful and frightening for parents. After all, you want your child to be able to play just like every other child. You don't want him or her to have to live in a bubble or struggle to breathe.

Influenza - A Threat to the World
Person have cold one minute and hot the next, scratchy throat and starting to cough, stuffy nose, head aches, Stomach symptoms, such as nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea, and so does every bone in body – Than the person may be getting the flu!

Sinus and Sinusitis Facts
Sinuses are paired air cavities or air spaces (pockets) in the cranial (head) bones. And they are connected to the nose on the facial part of the skull where air passes and mucus drains. However sinuses are also referred to as "paranasal sinuses".