When it comes to defeating asthma, knowledge is the best weapon. Know the triggers that are causing you asthma attacks.



They may be your pets or aspirin that you are taking. Limit or try eliminating as possible your exposure to the allergens. Desensitization to the things that trigger the attack has been proved to be an effective treatment option for some patients.

As with other respiratory diseases, smoking is something that badly affects asthma sufferers in several ways. They can be:

• Decreased response to preventive medications
• An increased severity of symptoms
• A more rapid decline of lung function

Asthmatics who are also smokers are usually given medications to help them control their disease.



Asthma victims who are not smokers themselves but have someone around them with smoking habit are also typically required to take additional medications. Secondhand smoking is detrimental for asthma sufferers just as smoking is and can result in:

• more severe asthma attacks,
• more emergency room visits, and
• more hospital admissions due to asthma.

Quit smoking and avoidance of secondhand smoke is strongly advised to asthma victims.

It depends on the frequency of asthma symptoms and severity of the illness that doctors can recommend medical treatment to asthmatics. Medical treatment for asthma can be divided into:

• Long term control
• Quick relief medications

Long Term Control:

In this type of asthma treatment, people who are suffering asthma persistently are given medications on daily basis. The medicines given in this type of asthma treatment primarily serve to control airway inflammation.

Quick Relief Medications:

This type of asthma treatment is given to people with acute asthma attacks. As the title says itself, quick relief medicines are given to relax bronchial smooth muscle that promptly reverses the acute asthma attack.