Bronchial Asthma Explained

Bronchial asthma is a disease that has a great impact on the patient's respiratory system, causing symptoms such as dizziness and shortness of breath, and is accompanied by chest pain and cough. Everyone should pay attention to the treatment of bronchial asthma. Bronchial asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the airways that causes abnormal airway contraction. Patients need to undergo long-term anti-inflammatory treatment. The specific treatment method should be based on the doctor's advice.

Bronchial asthma is a chronic inflammation of the airways involving multiple inflammatory cells such as eosinophils, mast cells and T lymphocytes.

. This type of airway inflammation makes susceptible persons reactive to various stimuli and can cause airway narrowing, manifested by recurrent symptoms such as wheezing, dyspnea, chest tightness or cough, which often occur and worsen at night and/or early morning, and often lead to widespread and variable reversible airflow limitation. Most patients can be relieved through treatment or on their own.

What is bronchial asthma?

Bronchial asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the airways involving multiple cells and cellular components. This chronic inflammation is associated with airway hyperresponsiveness and usually causes extensive, variable, reversible airflow limitation, leading to recurrent symptoms such as wheezing, shortness of breath, chest tightness and cough. The symptoms often worsen at night and early morning. Most patients can relieve the symptoms on their own or through treatment.

Asthma is actually a chronic airway allergic disease that reacts to a variety of external or internal stimuli, causing airway contraction and thus airflow restriction. However, this airflow restriction is reversible. When there is no stimulation or when the allergens are removed, the airway function will be normal. Therefore, the main symptom of asthma is paroxysmal wheezing, that is, when encountering an environment that is prone to allergies, wheezing and wheezing may suddenly occur, and you can hear wheezing in the throat, coughing, and coughing up large amounts of white foamy sputum. Moreover, this symptom is often more obvious at night. But sometimes, coughing is its only symptom, also known as cough variant asthma. Some people will have chest tightness-type asthma, and some teenagers will have exercise-induced asthma, which means that asthma only occurs when they exercise. Asthma symptoms can develop within minutes, last for hours or even days, and can be relieved by taking bronchodilators.

The treatment of asthma mainly focuses on long-term anti-inflammatory treatment. The first choice is inhaled hormones, followed by symptom relief. The first choice of drugs is bronchodilators, such as beta-receptor agonists and anticholine drugs. In addition, if the condition is not well controlled with regular inhaled hormones, long-acting bronchodilators or leukotriene receptor antagonists should be added. For patients with severe asthma who have long-term recurrent attacks, intensive treatment can be considered, such as hormone therapy. Some of the latest treatments, such as bronchial thermoplasty, can also be considered. For some patients, asthma is still not under control despite standardized treatment. They can get relatively ideal control through traditional Chinese medicine treatment.