BRONCHIAL ASTHMA

Asthma is a chronic disease affecting both children and the adults. In this the air passages in lungs become narrow due to the inflammation of muscles around the small air ways. Due to this inflammation the air path produces excess mucus, results in coughing, short breath, and wheezing.

Asthma is strongly linked to other respiratory diseases such as chronic sinusitis, middle ear infections, nasal polyps. People who had both allergies and asthma have sleepless nights due to difficulty in breathing.

Exciting factors :

• Smoking
• Infections such as cold, flu
• Allergens such as pollen
• Exercise
• Air pollution
• Toxins
• Emotional stress, anxiety
• Perfumes
• Acid reflux
• Early morning

An asthmatic attack is sudden worsening of asthma symptoms by causing trouble breathing, wheezing, shortness of breath, difficult in performing the normal activities, chest tightness, rapid breathing, feeling of anxiety, pale, sweaty face, blue lips

There is a strange relation in between anxiety and asthma as the person who is more anxious have more worsening of the symptoms of asthma.

Seek emergency treatment when there is rapid worsening of shortness of breath or wheezing and especially feels shortness of breath when you are doing minimal exercise.

Usually the respiratory issues like bronchial asthma and bronchitis etc., increases during rainy season. Due to this we have to take some preventive measures for controlling the asthmatic attacks.

keep the damp places like toilets, bathrooms, free from fungus by cleaning them with bleach, disinfectants.

One should not skip the medicines.

Have the balanced diet.

Wash all the rugs, pillow covers, bed sheets with warm water

By breathing through nose not from the mouth because nose warms up the air for the lungs.

Keeping your asthma under control may take more effort in the cold of winter but by following these strategies one can get through the season without worsened symptoms.

SINUSITIS

Sinusitis is an inflammation of or swelling of the tissue lining the sinuses. These are the hollow spaces within the bones between the eyes, behind the cheek bones and fore head. They make mucus which keeps the internal part of the nose moist.

Cuases :

• Caused by virus rarely bacteria ,fungus.
• Sometimes due to allergies, nasal polyps, tooth infections

Symptoms :

• Mucus drips down the throat
• Thick, yellow or green discharge from the nose
• Facial pressure around the nose, eyes, forehead
• Reduced sense of smell and taste
• Ear pain
• Stuffy nose.
• Headache
• Aching in upper jaw and teeth
• Cough
• Sore throat
• Bad breath
• Weakness or fatigue

Risk Factors :

• A deviated nasal septum
• Nasal polyps
• Asthma
• Dental and fungal infection
• Tumours
• Allergies.
• Sinusitis compliated to reduced vision or possibly blindness

Sinusitis can be prevented by avoiding upper respiratory infections, and managing the allergies