Metered dose inhalers, MDI are very popular among people with asthma because they are quite easy to use, except for children smaller than 5 that seem not to be able to use them properly. Complete exhalation is followed by the placing of MDI to the lips, the formation of a seal around the month piece, and finally pressure on the top of the device to release the suitable close of substance that is gradually inhaled.
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There are cases I which some people with asthma in which attacks occur about 3-8 minutes after the exercise started. In others, it starts only after the exercise has stopped. But, most of this times, although they start during the exercise, they get worse after the exercise has stopped.
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There is a way that is both simple and effectives, called a “pretreatment”. This is prescribed by the doctor and represents a substance administered by means of an inhaler just before the exercise, it allows these people to do what they enjoy so much and eliminates the symptoms before, during and after sportive activates.
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A short true or false quiz is the most appropriate way to demolish some myths and to show facts about asthma
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There are certain elements in the environment that can provoke or worsen the symptoms of asthma. But these factors are different from one person to another. It is not compulsions for one of these triggers that affect a person to have the same effect on others.
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Asthmatic people are two times more exposed to gastro-esophageal reflux disorder than healthy people, gathering a percentage of 75% of coexistence of the two diseases. Treatment resisting chronic forms of asthma make more likely the presence of GERS.
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There are three types of asthma attacks: mild, moderate and severe. The last one may even cause death. The first two present the following symptoms: coughing, tightness and the chest or wheezing. Signs may appear in a woman and still she can ignore the fait that it was asthma to produce them.
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In most of the cases there are factors that generate asthma episodes. These episode imply an obstruction of the airways In case these factors are known, they must be avoided by all means
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Especially during pregnancy, the treatment for asthma is vital. The baby needs oxygen and any risk of a certain medicine is smaller than that of an asthma attack for him.
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About 20% the American population is affected by allergies and asthma. Asthma represents the chronic inflammations of the airways, which produces difficulties for the breathing process. It can be fatal, if not treated. Asthma is not a contagious disease, is regardless of the person's age and it manifests differently from a case to another.
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A new, radical, medicine for asthma able to keep under control episodes even when the patient has a cold is being worked in and tested by specialists.
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A proper control of this disease will make your life closer to what you want it to be. The information bellow will help you optimize the control of your asthma.
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Asthma attacks that manifested in childhood and youth may return at older ages, or they even get worse.
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