☯ What is asthma?
Asthma causes symptoms with puffiness when breathing, coughing and stridor that the sound of wheezing. Patients with asthma may suffer from chronic cough, feeling of pressure on chest or difficulty in breathing without a special reason.
☯ The necessity of treatment
Patients with asthma tend to not getting a proper treatment since asthma symptoms have many ups and downs. Thus, many patients suffer from after effects because they did not get a proper treatment in a timely fashion. In severe cases, patients could be in a critical condition. Therefore, patients are required to get aggressive care.
☯ Main causes
° Cause of disease (atopy, gender)
° Induction substances (antigen like dust mites, medication, food additive)
° Participation factor (passive smoking, infection of respiratory organ, air pollution, low birth-weight infant)
° Trigger factor (antigen, air pollution, infection of respiratory organ, exercise and hyperpnea, food additive, mood swing)
☯ Symptoms
- Stridor –
Since an airway becomes narrow, patients wheeze when breathing.
- Cough & phlegm –
Because of irritation on bronchial tubes and increased secretion, patients cough and phlegm is easy
to be stuck in the throat.
- Difficulty of breathing –
Out breathing is harder than inspiration. When the symptom is worse, patients also have difficulty in breathing out.
☯ Prevention & treatment
If a person who has a genetic predisposition to asthma wants not to get an asthma, it’s important to avoid induction substance and participant factor. Patients need to take care of their health and build up resistance to disease through strengthening physical strength.
1. Mind that do not catch a cold and choose an appropriate exercise and continuously improve the physical ability.
2. Try to avoid cause substance and stimulant if it’s possible.
3. Do not expose yourself to cold air for a long time.
4. Try to avoid excessive stress or fatigue.
5. Quit smoking is a must.
6. Keep regular hours, take an enough rest, take more organic foods and try not to eat processed foods.
7. Be positive.
Treatment methods are medicine treatment, strengthening physical strength method, milieu therapy, immunity method and so on. We, Dunsan Korean medicine hospital, offer acupuncture and medicine treatment.
- Medicine treatment –
Normally, we offer a herbal medicine. Through Korean medical diagnosis, the treatment helps to improve the function of the lung, get rid of phlegm and relieve the rapid respiration. Moreover, herbal medicine using herb that increases the yin energy makes the body energetic and increases the immune system.
- Acupuncture –
Increase self healing ability through balance in the body.
☯ What is chronic cough?
Normally, if patient coughs for over 3 weeks, it could be diagnosed as chronic cough. If a chronic cough lasts long, it could be asthma.
☯ Causes of chronic cough
° Expose to the cold air and eat cold foods so the lung becomes weak.
° The function of lung is weak naturally.
° Resistance may decrease because the mental tension cause stress to the body.
° Excessive sad mood is harm to the lung.