Showing posts with label asthma. Show all posts
Showing posts with label asthma. Show all posts
Friday, November 6, 2009
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Adult Asthma, Not Just A Kids Disease
Onset of adult asthma can be triggered by a variety of causes, including flu and colds, exercise, laughing, perfumes and even anxiety. There is a great need to detect asthma at an early age to administer more effective treatments to reduce or eliminate onset of adult asthma. By the time you finish reading this article you will have a good idea of what you need to do to control the onset of adult asthma attacks.
Asthma
Asthma does improve in workers with occupational asthma once they are no longer being exposed to the causal agent, although the majorities are left with permanent symptoms, bronchial hyper responsiveness, and inflammation. Adult asthma could be passed on from generation to generation through genes. Being an adult you can easily identify the triggers that worsen the asthma symptoms and learn to avoid them.
Patients
The earlier the diagnosis and removal from exposure, the more likely workers may be cured, which is a favorable outcome for patients and their physicians, as well as for its impact on public health. Cigarette smoke can trigger acute symptoms in patients with asthma, and exposure to cigarette smoke is strongly correlated with asthma severity. So if you have asthma are trying to quit smoking, this should at least prompt you to do something about it.
Allergens
Preparing a list of all allergens that provoke your asthma is a good thing to do. These triggers include allergens such as mold, pet dander, cockroaches, and dust mites, or irritants such as tobacco smoke, certain chemicals, and other environmental exposures.
Recent evidence suggests that active smoking is a risk factor for the onset of adult asthma but whether there is a causal relationship remains a matter of debate. It's imperative to understand the onset of adult asthma symptoms so that the sufferer knows how to keep asthma attacks at bay and whenever an attack occurs how to manage it. So now that you have an idea of what to do about preventing some of your attacks, what are you going to do about it? If you are on medication remember to always to consult with your doctor before trying anything new.
Learn more about curing asthma naturally at http://strictlyasthma.info
Asthma
Asthma does improve in workers with occupational asthma once they are no longer being exposed to the causal agent, although the majorities are left with permanent symptoms, bronchial hyper responsiveness, and inflammation. Adult asthma could be passed on from generation to generation through genes. Being an adult you can easily identify the triggers that worsen the asthma symptoms and learn to avoid them.
Patients
The earlier the diagnosis and removal from exposure, the more likely workers may be cured, which is a favorable outcome for patients and their physicians, as well as for its impact on public health. Cigarette smoke can trigger acute symptoms in patients with asthma, and exposure to cigarette smoke is strongly correlated with asthma severity. So if you have asthma are trying to quit smoking, this should at least prompt you to do something about it.
Allergens
Preparing a list of all allergens that provoke your asthma is a good thing to do. These triggers include allergens such as mold, pet dander, cockroaches, and dust mites, or irritants such as tobacco smoke, certain chemicals, and other environmental exposures.
Recent evidence suggests that active smoking is a risk factor for the onset of adult asthma but whether there is a causal relationship remains a matter of debate. It's imperative to understand the onset of adult asthma symptoms so that the sufferer knows how to keep asthma attacks at bay and whenever an attack occurs how to manage it. So now that you have an idea of what to do about preventing some of your attacks, what are you going to do about it? If you are on medication remember to always to consult with your doctor before trying anything new.
Learn more about curing asthma naturally at http://strictlyasthma.info
Monday, June 9, 2008
Hypnotherapy for Asthma
Being a former asthma sufferer myself, I can completely empathise with those who live in dread the suffocating symptoms of an asthma attack.
My asthma was induced by dust and aggravated by intense exercise, however for others, they causes are less easy to avoid. Pollen, pollution, stress, colds, and cigarette smoke are just some of the factors that can aggravate asthma. Although there are many pharmaceutical treatments for asthma, the very young and very old can be particularly debilitated by the symptoms of asthma.
When an attack is on its way, it's important to keep calm, but when you feel physically unable to get sufficient oxygen into your body (this is because the airways are constricting), calm is generally the last thing you are feeling, and no matter how many times you consciously remind yourself to keep calm, will power alone is not enough.
The good news is that most asthma suffers have some idea of when they are going to have an asthma attack, there may not be a lot of prior warning, but there will be some.
Using hypnosis, an asthma sufferer can be given suggestions such as remaining calm when they suspect that an attack is going to happen, visualising the tubes of their airways as being relaxed and wide, becoming disassociated from one's self so that they are able to look at themselves and how they look at this time just before the attack comes on. Or notice how a simple change in their own physiology can release discomfort or what it is that they are focusing on at that time… are they focusing on how tight and uncomfortable they feel, or how their socks feel on their feet? Wherever your attention is, you can expect to notice more intensely.
Imagining the lungs in a healthy normal state can encourage them to return to normal function, in fact as well visualising the self and how actual changes can be made to the body and it's parts, more covert techniques can be employed. A rubber band letting go offers suggestions of something taut becoming loose and limp (such as the airway), a stiff door that is oiled to that it can swing open easily can also make similar positive suggestions, or a slide window that allows a breeze to blow through. Simply the auditory suggestion of a slowing metronome can encourage a panicked racing heartbeat to slow down.
Hypnosis is one of the most effective ways to achieve a natural relaxed state. In this state the mind is more open to suggestion and the state of relaxation alone can ease the anxiety and stress that can cause an attack. This means that using auto suggestion, it may be possible for a person to abort the asthma attack before it begins.
My asthma was induced by dust and aggravated by intense exercise, however for others, they causes are less easy to avoid. Pollen, pollution, stress, colds, and cigarette smoke are just some of the factors that can aggravate asthma. Although there are many pharmaceutical treatments for asthma, the very young and very old can be particularly debilitated by the symptoms of asthma.
When an attack is on its way, it's important to keep calm, but when you feel physically unable to get sufficient oxygen into your body (this is because the airways are constricting), calm is generally the last thing you are feeling, and no matter how many times you consciously remind yourself to keep calm, will power alone is not enough.
The good news is that most asthma suffers have some idea of when they are going to have an asthma attack, there may not be a lot of prior warning, but there will be some.
Using hypnosis, an asthma sufferer can be given suggestions such as remaining calm when they suspect that an attack is going to happen, visualising the tubes of their airways as being relaxed and wide, becoming disassociated from one's self so that they are able to look at themselves and how they look at this time just before the attack comes on. Or notice how a simple change in their own physiology can release discomfort or what it is that they are focusing on at that time… are they focusing on how tight and uncomfortable they feel, or how their socks feel on their feet? Wherever your attention is, you can expect to notice more intensely.
Imagining the lungs in a healthy normal state can encourage them to return to normal function, in fact as well visualising the self and how actual changes can be made to the body and it's parts, more covert techniques can be employed. A rubber band letting go offers suggestions of something taut becoming loose and limp (such as the airway), a stiff door that is oiled to that it can swing open easily can also make similar positive suggestions, or a slide window that allows a breeze to blow through. Simply the auditory suggestion of a slowing metronome can encourage a panicked racing heartbeat to slow down.
Hypnosis is one of the most effective ways to achieve a natural relaxed state. In this state the mind is more open to suggestion and the state of relaxation alone can ease the anxiety and stress that can cause an attack. This means that using auto suggestion, it may be possible for a person to abort the asthma attack before it begins.
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