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How to avoid asthma attack?

Asthma attack caused many reasons, some obvious reasons, but, for some reason is often hidden, must work together to find doctors and patients rely on the patient and other family members in close contact should be for each episode in detail and find doctors discuss better.Induced Asthma, the following reasons for Directory known.
(1) allergic factors: 30% ~ 40% of bronchial asthma, to identify allergens. Mites, cat, dog skin scale, mold, pollen, milk, eggs, silk, feathers, moths, cotton, fungi are important allergens.
(2) non-specific physical and chemical factors, such as the inhalation of smoke, dust, and vegetable oils, smell like gasoline or paint, and the cold air, can stimulate sensory nerve endings in the bronchial mucosa, caused by reflex stimulation of vagus and cough , the airways hyperreactivity Based on the result of bronchial smooth muscle spasm.
(3), microbial infections: colds and infections of the upper respiratory tract are the most common incentives, winter and spring, or even more if the climate changes. Respiratory infections, especially infections more asthma attacks in children.
(4) Fatigue: a strong shock or prolonged physical work, intensive competitive sports may trigger asthma.
(5) psychological factors: mood swings can be an incentive. Such as anxiety, sadness, irritability can lead to asthma attacks and even laugh.
(6) occupational factors: These include a wide spectrum, such as the pharmaceutical industry, chemical industry workers to work on certain drugs or raw material allergy, allergy to certain drugs and other medical personnel.
(7) environmental factors, such as the cold season cold and easy to respiratory infections, or sudden changes in weather or pressure reduction may promote asthma.
The adverse effect of pregnancy on asthma
(1) during pregnancy because plasma cortisol and histamine enzymes increased, the situation can often reduce asthma symptoms or asthma conditions from pregnancy to improve the impact. Only 1 / 3 of patients worsen their condition.
(2) with severe asthma, pregnancy, almost half of patients with asthma situation worsened.
(3) recurrent episodes of status asthmaticus with the pregnancy there are 80% of asthma aggravated the situation.
(4) normal pregnancy serum immunoglobulin E (IgE was reduced), asthma, pregnancy and elevated serum IgE levels or prolonged, suggesting that the situation will likely worsen asthma.

Nutrition principles of bronchial asthma

Diet in patients with asthma should be light, less exciting, not fed, salty, too sweet to avoid the cold, alcohol, spicy foods. 2 Eat less allergic constitution to heterosexual protein food is recommended to find something to eat really can bronchial asthma patients should avoid are induced to eat, should eat more vegetable protein, like beans and bean products.Âك to ensure nutrition, adequate and balanced range of nutrients, in particular, the antioxidant nutrients such as β-carotene, vitamin C, E and selenium and other trace elements increase. Antioxidants can prevent free radical trap oxygen, oxygen free radicals to tissue damage, reducing methods for selenium to asthma, to reduce, to see the number of children with seizures, increased ventilation can be reduced. β-carotene, vitamin C, E with fresh fruit and vegetables rich in content, trace element selenium in kelp, jellyfish, garlic is rich in content. 4 to prevent respiratory tract, it is important for the regulation of immune function, care should be seasonally warm, the child should be secreted in breast, especially in the breast milk contains immune system antibodies that can increase airway resistance. 5 Regular eating fungus immune function, regulate how mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms contain polysaccharides, fungal polysaccharides, can enhance human immunity and reduce asthma attacks.

How the treatment of menstrual asthma

Menstrual asthma is premenstrual or menstrual exacerbation of asthma phenomenon generally occurs often in the early period. Often occurs in more regular menstrual cycle is still unknown by young women of childbearing age, the pathogenesis of the disease, the body with the menstrual cycle, sex hormone levels may be associated altered.
Menstrual asthma frequently occur in patients with previous history of asthma, the week before menstruation or menstrual symptoms worsened after the symptoms increase gradually ease menstrual cramps and menstrual symptoms after a few days, the level varied symptoms, light only and tightness in the chest, severe cases require hospitalization.
Modern medical treatment of the disease with loop diuretics and intramuscular progesterone effect. Mild to moderate menstrual asthma patients should increase the period of the disease began one week before the start of medication, until a stable condition.
According to TCM, the disease was mainly due to congenital defects or over practice-usually nice, spleen and kidney damage and, together with water is OK, fine blood injection into the uterus, spleen and kidney is true, kidney qi Erzhi not to increase or an asthma attack. Typical symptoms, 3 to 7 days before menstruation, which is made from asthma, breathing can not on the back, and throats of phlegm, sputum, a thin, mediastinoscopy full nausea, menstrual disorders, quantity, quality, bright red with thin, aversion to cold, the body tired, fatigue, abdominal distension was after meals, sugar, loose stools, pale tongue tender, the pulse in order. Applications: Populating spleen and kidney, Qi and relieve asthma. Recipe: 10 grams of ephedrine, Shegan 10 grams, 15 grams of Schisandra, purple Wanಏ grams, 15 grams Coltsfoot Flower, Guizhi 10 grams, 15 grams of Ling Yun, psoralen 10 grams, 10 grams of Morinda officinalis, 15 g Chuanxiong, 10 grams of licorice, Epimedium 10 grams Day 1, water boiling in water, in the week before menstruation began under clothing to relief or disappearance of symptoms, menstruation, without stopping.