How to Use Zyrtec to Treat Asthma
If you have allergy-induced asthma, you're familiar with the symptoms of both allergy and asthma. Your seasonal or environmental allergies may cause respiratory itching, inflammation and mucus...
View ArticleHow to Use Homeopathics to Treat Asthma
Take a hands-on approach to managing your asthma by integrating natural and conventional medicine to treat the disease. Homeopathic remedies can complement the use of prescription drugs, especially if...
View ArticleHow to Use Singulair to Treat Asthma
The new-generation asthma drugs provide daily internal control of asthma sensitivities, which form the basis of this chronic disease of the lungs. Rather than treating crisis symptoms when an asthma...
View ArticleHow to Use Exercise to Treat Asthma
Many people who have asthma, or parents of children who do, wonder whether they can or should exercise. Asthma is a disease that restricts airflow in and out of the lungs, making it difficult to get...
View ArticleHow to Avoid Asthma Triggers
If your lungs are sensitive to temperature change, air pollutants or physical exercise, you may show asthma symptoms. This long-term disease can arise in childhood or adulthood and usually persists...
View ArticleHow to Use Diet to Treat Asthma
Asthma is a disease of the lungs that is characterized mostly by periodic trouble in breathing. Many who have asthma also have various allergies, so these two conditions are interrelated. When the...
View ArticleHow to Reduce Asthma Triggers at Home
Asthma causes narrowing and inflammation of the airways. When symptoms flare up, a person will feel short of breath, may have tightness in their chest and wheezing. People with asthma have different...
View ArticleHow to Use a Spacer With Asthma Medication
A spacer is a small device that is shaped like a tube. It holds inhalers such as albuterol, which is a medication used to treat asthma. It makes using an inhaler easier. By using a spacer correctly it...
View ArticleHow to Help Someone Having an Asthma Attack
Asthma attacks occur when an asthmatic has a response to any environmental or emotional trigger. This causes inflammation of the airways, and overproduction of mucous in the airways, making breathing...
View ArticleHow to Tell if a Person Has Asthma
Asthma is defined as a "chronic inflammatory disease of the airway" that causes regular coughing, shortness of breath, wheezing and a tight feeling in the chest. The symptoms come and go, so you may...
View ArticleHow to Control Asthma Without Medicine
Anyone who has suffered an asthma attack is all too familiar with the symptoms. First comes the wheezing, followed by a tightening in the chest, coughing and the inability to catch your breath. In most...
View ArticleHow to Fight Asthma Without Medication
Asthma is a condition that restricts airways and makes it difficult to breath. Allergies, stress, anxiety and exercise contribute to asthma attacks. Asthma medications can be expensive and have...
View ArticleHow to Manage an Asthma Attack
Difficulty breathing, wheezing, coughing and shortness of breath are all symptoms of an asthma attack. An attack is caused when the muscles around your airways tighten. At the same time, the lining of...
View ArticleHow to Treat an Asthma Sufferer
Asthma can be a serious ailment. It is not rare for people who are not treated properly to die from a serious asthma attack. If there is ever a situation where somebody is suffering from a serious...
View ArticleHow to Deal with Asthma Attacks
Asthma should be controlled by medication and supervision by a physician who specializes in treating asthmatics. However, even well-treated asthma has the potential to be out of control at any...
View ArticleHow to Treat Asthma Naturally
Some asthma sufferers prefer to treat their symptoms naturally, without the use of steroid-based medications that can, with overuse, actually worsen rather than heal their condition. A number of...
View ArticleHow to Live With Asthma
The prognosis for people diagnosed with asthma is usually very good. In fact, millions of people in the United States live with the disorder with minimal compromise in their quality of life. Asthma...
View ArticleHow to Treat Extrinsic Asthma
The medical definition of extrinsic asthma is that it is the form of asthma in which otherwise healthy-seeming people, when exposed to a specific allergen, quickly develop the symptoms of acute asthma....
View ArticleHow to Treat Intrinsic Asthma
Cases of asthma are divided into 2 sub-categories of the disease: extrinsic asthma and intrinsic asthma. In extrinsic asthma cases, outbreaks are triggered by the presence of a specific allergen, such...
View ArticleHow to Use a Nebulizer
A nebulizer is an air compressor, often called a breathing machine, used to inhale liquid medicine. Nebulizers are commonly used by asthma patients for administering medication to the lungs, expanding...
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