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Asthma
Symptoms
Learning Your
Asthma Symptoms Is Important To Prevent Severe Asthma Attack
Asthma symptoms
knowledge must become the most important part of your asthma treatment.
Observing early signs and anticipate light asthma symptoms could be very
useful to prepare asthma action in earlier stage. Accurate observation
will also help your doctor and you to decide the best asthma treatment.
Early Signs Of Asthma
Early signs of asthma appears before an
episode of asthma attack. The signs are unique for every person.
Even for a person, the early signs could be different on each asthma
episode.
The early signs of asthma could be :
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Change in breathing pattern
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Change of mood
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Sneezing
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Stuffy nose
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Itchy throat
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Coughing, especially at night
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Tiredness
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Black circle under eyes
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Troubled sleeping
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Reducing of body tolerance against
exercise
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Decreasing of peak flow rate when
using peak flow meter
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From all signs,
peak flow rate is the most accurate
early sign of asthma you can rely on.
Asthma Symptoms
These asthma symptoms indicate that an
asthma attack episode is just started...
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Wheezing (make a whistling sound while
breathing), and heavy breath
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Coughing
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Shortness of breath or even breathless
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Chest tightness
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Peak flow rate enter a dangerous level
(between 50% to 80% of your best performance).
When the asthma symptoms begin to appear, it
means that some changes has occurred in your airways, which cause the
air flow is stuck. Take precaution actions to avoid more severe
conditions. Consultation with doctors or other medical expert is needed
at this stage.
Garlic has been known as a vegetable with many health benefits. To
prevent your asthma symptoms to get worsen, you can try this
garlic recipe, besides many
other methods of natural asthma cure.
Severe Asthma Symptoms
Severe asthma symptoms appear in an
asthma
attack, and this is the most dangerous level in asthma, as it can threat
your life. The severe asthma symptoms indicate that there is a high
pressure on your airways.
These are severe asthma symptoms in an
asthma attack:
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Non stop coughing
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Wheezing and shortness of breath
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Tightness in chest
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Difficult talking and concentrating
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Shortness of breath after few steps of
walking
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Rapid breathing
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Bending back
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Nostrils flaring open in every inhale
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Retraction (tightened neck and chest
muscles sucked in)
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Pale and bluish skin, starting from
around mouth area, and also on fingernails (cyanosis)
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Peak flow rate decrease down to under
50% from the best performance
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If you feel, or someone near you see one
or all of the above asthma symptoms, immediately seek for emergency
health and call for the patient’s family member.
What must we do in an asthma attack ?
How should we treat the patient in emergency case ? Read
more in Asthma Attack....
To help you deciding what to do during
your asthma episode, start creating your own
asthma action plan.
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