1. Asthma is not a psychological illness. It is a physiological one. Even though it is physiological, certain events, situation, circumstances and actions and reactions can help to trigger and asthma attack. The person suffering from asthma needs to be relaxed as much as possible so the state of mind will not contribute to an attack.
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3. Asthma cannot be outgrown. Several children stop having asthma attacks when they reach puberty. Nevertheless, the asthma will return when they are adults. Sometimes it comes back as a very mild illness and sometimes comes back with a vengeance.
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5.  There is no cure for asthma. It can be controlled with adequate medical care, medications, foods, not been exposed to allergenics that can trigger an attack and overall precautionary measures.

 

6.  You have a 6% chance of having asthma if neither parent has the condition; a 30% chance if one parent has it; and a 70% chance if both parents have it. (MedicineNet.com)

 

7. Asthma is not a contagious disease. As you have seen on No. 4, most of the time is an inherited condition, even though the environment can contribute to create the condition.

 

8. A new environment may help to stop the asthma for a little while. However, the asthma will return once the body is acclimated to the new environment.

 

9. If you want to have a relief from the asthma, practice swimming. If you can swim every day even better. Be careful to avoid dry cold air, or extreme heat as these conditions will trigger an asthma attack.

 

10. The best way to control asthma is to have your doctor give you a plan that contains medication, exercise, environment management and overall care for the condition.

 

11. Besides the Prednisone, I have not encounter any asthma medication that it is addictive. If you have been on Prednisone for a while and you need to get off of it, do it by tapering it down until you can be completely off of it.

 

12. There is no way that any one can fake an asthma attack. If you see a person having difficulty breathing, call your emergency number as the person is going through a major stress and can die of suffocation.  

I need to include this story here.  I received an email from a person who had no name, no email address or URL, therefore the person doesn't exist.  At any rate, this person boasts about having faked asthma before, he/she was so good at it that ended up in the hospital for five days and had everyone convinced that it was asthma.  I can only say congratulations, you have managed to introduce into your system drugs that you didn't need,  have predispose the lungs for future trouble and weakened his/her immune system.  In the long run, lung related diseases will start appearing and he/she will not know why.  So once again congratulations to someone so clever, smart, and daring; he/she deserve an award for not understanding what he/she has done to her body.  God, do I love these type of people who believe that they are that clever, it amuses me how ignorant they are.

1. The best prevention for asthma is knowledge. The more you research the illness the easier it becomes to manage it.  Keep in mind that if you personally ask an asthma sufferer what causes it, what can be done, what the best medications are, what triggers and asthma attack and related questions, the person will give you information based on his/her own experience.  Therefore, you may get too much information or contradictory information.  The best way you can obtain information, is through your doctor, pharmacist and sites that contain proven information on the condition and its treatment.

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