Asthma care cure treatment exercises and Primary Prevention

1. Lie back on a firm bed with knees drawn up, arms limp at the sides. Exhale as you rise and bend forward to place the head between the knees. Inhale as you slowly sink back to the starting position. Rest for a moment and breathe out quickly, using abdominal muscles. Inhale before resuming the exercise.

Rest, breathing normally and allowing only the upper part of the abdomen and lower portion of the rib cage to move

2. Stand with feet apart and arms elevated almost to top-of-head level, with fists clenched, and elbows well back. Bend shoulders and neck to one side, with the corresponding arm going to side of body in direction of bend. Use fist of opposite arm to help push head down. Repeat in opposite direction. Do three times in each direction.

3. Sit with feet well apart. With right hand over ribs on right side, bend to right, breathing out and pushing hand into ribs. Inhale while resuming original position. Do the same in the opposite direction.    notify his doctor. 

The change may signal status asthmaticus. An asthmatic who becomes depressed by his illness-and people vary greatly in their reaction to labored breathing-should receive psychotherapy if he wishes it. With such therapy, some asthmatics are aided in adopting a more cheerful attitude, and some find that psychotherapy helps reduce severity and frequency of attacks.

 PRIMARY PREVENTION

 Effective desensitizationto pollens that cause hay fever helps to reduce the risk of developing asthmatic reactions to these substances. So, too, avoidance of food allergens that may produce allergic upsets for a given individual. Some allergists suggest that, as a precaution, children of allergic parents should not be given eggs and other commonly allergenic foods during the first year of life and should not be exposed to wool. 

Also, each new food should be introduced in small quantity and in- creased slowly in amount. It is believed that a child can build up tolerance for small amounts of new foods but might be made allergic by sudden introduction of large amounts. 

Asthma cure - symptoms treatment medications preventive measures

 A patient knows that he is sensitive to pollen or a pet or a certain food. This helps in diagnosis. The physician can perform sensitivity tests for various common allergens. True bronchial asthma almost always responds to certain medications, and the relief provided by these constitutes still another aid in diagnosis. Not all cases of asthma are clearly allergic. There are asthma patients who seem to be reacting to infections of their bronchi or sinuses.

 Some physicians believe that such patients are sensitive to allergens in bacteria or' viruses (intrinsic asthma). Other doctors believe that there is an extrinsic allergen which is not apparent and that the infection only intensifies symptoms. The conflict is hard to re- solve because it is difficult to desensitize patients to the many bacteria and viruses that inhabit and infect the respiratory tract and sinuses.

There is also a type of asthma which seems to be entirely emotional. Yet, many allergists believe that in such cases there is a basic sensitivity to some allergen such as house dust and that emotional tensions act as a trigger or intensifier of symptoms. All of this must be considered by the physician when he diagnoses asthma and the outlook for the patient. 

If attacks are definitely related to an inhalational allergen such as ragweed or cat dander, then the physician knows the outlook is good. The patient will either avoid the allergen or be desensitized to it. And if avoidance or desensitization is not 100 per- cent productive, the patient will do well with one of the medicines used for treating asthma. Similarly, a patient with a strong emotional component can be helped greatly by psychotherapy.

For the patient with frequent attacks without clear-cut cause, there are several possibilities:

(1) The patient may do very well on the medications to be discussed shortly and with the help of other preventive measures.

(2) The patient may not respond well to treatment, may experience almost constant breathing difficulty, and se- verity may be great enough to en- danger the lungs through slow development of emphysema.

(3) In addition to the outlook described in (2), the patient may experience repeated bronchial infections not easily controlled with antibiotics.

(4) The patient may have frequent, extremely severe attacks. During such attacks, called status asthmaticus, the patient be- comes blue from lack of oxygen, exhausted from straining to breathe, and seems on the verge of death. Fortunately, with modern asthma therapy, death is rare but intensive care in a hospital is required. Windows should be kept closed, with a door ajar into an adjoining room with window open. Parched, dry air in the home should be avoided. 

An electric humidifier is valuable. Short of that, pans or trays of water can be kept on radiators.