As a condition characterized by acute moments of breath, using these 3 tips to relieve an asthma attack, you can not only see improvements but also reduce the duration of their illnesses.

Use fomentations (warmed towels or wet steam with hot water rather twisted) in the chest or back. While many recommend that at the same time, put your feet in warm water. The poultice should be kept long enough, until the crisis passes, 30 to 60 minutes. Should be changed every 5 minutes. After treatment with a damp cloth of water at normal temperature, make a drag. Should be dried and to rest.

Cool mist with a little oil of eucalyptus, is another very useful measure to liquefy very thick secretions that form in the bronchial tubes and make breathing difficult.

Due to the importance of staying hydrated, drink some tea or warm water several times during the crisis and beyond.
Remember also that the following herbs can help with moderate asthma crisis : the root of valerian , which has spasmodic and sedative action. And the purple , which is very useful tea for its expectorant and cough moderator.

The word asthma originates from an ancient Greek word meaning panting. Essentially, asthma is an inability to breathe properly. When a person inhales, air passes through the lungs through progressively smaller airways called bronchioles. The lungs contain millions of bronquiosolos, all lead to the alveoli – microscopic sacs where oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged.

Euna asthma chronic condition in which these airways undergo changes when stimulated by allergens or other environmental triggers that cause patients to cough, wheezing and shortness of breath (dyspnea).

Asthma appears to have two main stages.

First, the airways of people with asthma have an exaggerated or hyperreactive response to inhaled allergens or other irritants that cause them turmoil. The smooth muscles in the airways constrict, reducing excess. It should be noted that the airways in the lungs of everyone respond by narrowing when exposed to allergens or irritants, however, people without asthma can breathe deeply relaxing the airway, and releasing the lungs of the irritant. When people with asthma try to take those same deep breaths, the airway is not relax and the patients pant for breath. The smooth muscles in the airways of people with asthma may have a defect, perhaps the lack of a critical chemical that prevents the muscles relax.

This first stage is followed by a second inflammatory response in which the immune system responds to allergens or other environmental triggers downloading factors white blood cells and other immune factors to the airways, causing the airways to swell, fill with fluid and produce a thick sticky mucus. This combination of events leads to coughing, wheezing, shortness of breath, inability to breathe properly and a cough that produces phlegm. Pulmonary inflammation appears to be present in all patients with asthma, even in mild cases, and plays a key role in all forms of the disease.

The peak flow meter is a small device that helps a patient regularly monitor their own condition by measuring lung function such as peak expiratory flow rate (PEFR).

PEFR provides a numerical value of how well the airways in the lung are open, and thus, provides physicians with an idea of how effective the medication is and corollary the severity of the disease.

How important is it to use a peak flow meter? The answer-very. The National Asthma Education and Prevention Program (NAEPP) recommends that people with moderate to severe persistent asthma have a peak flow meter at home and know how to use it.

Before we move on to the “how’s,” please allow me to briefly summarize when a patient should use their peak flow meter. It should be used to:

- regularly monitor lung function and response-to-therapy

- determine the severity of an asthma attack

- assess response to treatment during an attack Read the full story