Niels Mygind, in his book Essential Allergy, explained asthma as a disease in the lungs that has the following characteristics: first it has variable and reversible airway obstruction; second, is the airway inflammation; and third, it has bronchial hyper-responsiveness.

Asthma is a chronic disease that affects the bronchial tube due to the occurrence of pollutants and irritants that can cause inflammation to patient and lead to his difficulty in breathing. There are some factors that affect inflammation, such as the narrowing of the muscles around the air channel, swelling of the linings of the nasal passage due to the inflammation of the airway. And the regeneration of extreme amount of mucus in the air channel.

Asthma was accounted as the primary chronic disease of children, and it occurs mainly across in the western countries.

In some asthma cases, there are some instances that it is hard to cure; however, most of the patients can controlled this kind of disease through proper preventive measures and treatments, which can help them, live a normal life due to rare occurrence of the attack.

The occurrence of asthma problem to a person needed a proper supervision and control. Your own self control, on staying away from the potential irritants and allergens that can interrupt your airways can help you a lot, together with the consumption of natural medicines been prescribed by your physician can help you manage and control your asthma.

Asthma episode was the worsening condition of the asthma symptoms. During the attack the bronchial tubes muscles contract, this may lead to the narrowing the air channel of the sufferer, which made it hard for the air or the inhaled oxygen to flow through the necessary organs of the patient. There are cells in the person’s airways that produced extreme amount of unnecessary mucus that make the airways narrower, this changes that occur in the airway was the possible cause of asthma symptoms of a person.

Asthma attack in a person varies in situation. Others had mild asthma attacks and some experienced a severe kind of attack. Having serious asthma attack can cause the airways to contract that lead to a limited oxygen supplies of the vital organs. This is an emergency case because there are times that people who experienced severe asthma attack died.

If you are a sufferer of asthma, to know the first symptoms of it can alert you to take the potential precautionary action to prevent further damage of the attack with the help of different medications and natural medicines.

Asthma attack for some people may go for extended period without experiencing the attack. According to asthma patients, there are long periods which they experience the few occurrence of an acute asthmatic episodes, but most of the time, they only encounter asthma symptoms.

The following is the listing of the asthma symptoms:
* Coughing. A symptom that is commonly seen among children, which give difficulty to every asthmatic person, it is usually appear at night that give difficulty for a person to had a good sleep.
* Wheezing a symptom which is characterized by having a squeaky sound that had been produced when a person breathe.
* Narrowing of the air passages happened when the airways inflamed.
* Tightening of the chest, a feeling that someone is sitting and squeezing your chest.
* Breathing difficulties occurs due to allergens and other pollutants that irritate the bronchial tubes.
* Significant reversibility of patient from steroidal drugs
* The recurring existence of allergy in the patient
* Symptom-free periods
* Inflammation of the bronchial air channels
* Bronchial hyper-receptiveness to undetermined stimuli like of air pollution, cold air, dust and other types of allergens.

* Coughing. This is the symptom mostly visible to asthmatic children, this is a kind of coughing that occur at night and even early in the morning, and made it a bit hard for sufferers to get a better sleep.
* Wheezing. This is characterized by squeaky or a whistling sound produced when you breathe.
* A tight feeling in the chest. It was a feeling of uneasiness, a feeling that someone was squeezing on your chest.
* Retractions of the chest muscles and the neck.
* Breathing difficulties. This is the common symptoms sufferers of the asthma experience a feeling of heaving shortness of breathing like they have to catch their breath.
* Contraction of the airways
* Symptom-free period
* Swelling of the nasal passages
* Numerous occurrence of allergy to a person.
* Bronchial reaction through non-precise stimulants and allergens, like pollen, air pollutants and dusts.

Not everyone can experience these symptoms because each symptom varies in different cases. There are times that symptoms can be mild or a life-threatening one. Asthma symptoms change depending on how frequently this thing occurs. There are times that symptoms occur every day, for some who encounter the symptoms to appear every week, and others for only once over a few months.
The use of natural and alternative medicines can lessen the risk of asthma attack and at the same time it can abolish numerous asthma symptoms of an asthmatic person.

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