Asthma Attack - Do You Know What to Do?

Asthma Attack - Do You Know What to Do?

Asthma Attack - Do You Know What to Do?

An asthma attack is a terrifying experience for anyone of any age. But knowing what to do when faced with an attack can remove a lot of the risk and fear. Have this knowledge at your fingertips.

It is quite possible for you to live a normal life by keeping asthma under control; you just need to learn how to deal with asthma. Hospitals admit thousands of people every year for emergency asthma treatment, people from right across the age spectrum. Worse still, there are thousands of people die every year and with the correct approach some 90% of these tragedies could easily have been avoided. In Britain, estimates are that somewhere between 1,400 and 2,000 people die annually from an asthma attack: that's approximately four people per day.

How sad that in this day and age, where knowledge is available at our fingertips, people with asthma are dying at such a rate, simply through not knowing what to do. Are you a recently diagnosed adult, or have a child diagnosed with asthma? Naturally, you want to know what to do, you are reading this article, so you are off to a good start. Read everything you can find about the illness, become an expert on the subject. The better you understand what triggers an asthma attack as well as what to do when an attack happens, the calmer and confident you will be when confronted with it in reality.

Draw up a list of all the doubts and questions in your mind and go to your public library. There are many good books on asthma available there. Find out what foods, situations, conditions may trigger your asthma attack. Speak to your doctor about your findings and ask questions about any lingering doubts still on your mind. Most likely your doctor will have spoken of an instrument for measuring how well your lungs are working. It is called a peak flow meter and when used daily is reputed to predict when an asthma attack is about to occur.

In the event of an attack, the most important advice is to focus on keeping calm. This may go against all your instincts in the beginning but panic only makes things worse and is the reaction of someone who doesn't know what to do. Understanding and rehearsing the situation makes it easier. Here is what to do.

Place your hands on your lap, palms down. With your attention on your breath, breathe in and out slowly and calmly. Try to keep an even rhythm to avoid big gulps of air. Allow up to ten minutes for the asthma attack to subside then resume whatever you were doing before. If the symptoms persist for more than ten minutes, call an ambulance or ask someone to drive you to hospital. Even in the middle of the night, or an important function, if after 10 minutes of being calm and breathing as above you are not better, get help immediately.

Spend some time on the internet. Start by looking up a report with an alternative solution about how to cure asthma the natural way. Chances are, you won't hear about this report anywhere else because it reduces dependency on asthma drugs and, therefore, it isn't in the interest of pharmaceutical companies that you know about this.

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