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What Is Asthma Moderate to Severe?
Asthma Moderate to Severe is a medical condition that may require prescription treatment. Consult a healthcare professional about appropriate options.
Managing Asthma Moderate to Severe with TheDrugClub
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About Asthma, the broader condition
This overview covers Asthma in general, not Asthma Moderate to Severe specifically.
What is asthma?
Asthma is a chronic (long-term) lung disease. It affects your airways, the tubes that carry air in and out of your lungs. When you have asthma, your airways can become inflamed and narrowed. This can cause wheezing, coughing, and tightness in your chest. When these symptoms get worse than usual, it is called an asthma attack or flare-up.
What causes asthma?
The exact cause of asthma is unknown. Genetics and your environment likely play a role in who gets asthma.
An asthma attack can happen when you are exposed to an asthma trigger. An asthma trigger is something that can set off or worsen your asthma symptoms. Different triggers can cause different types of asthma:
Allergic asthma is caused by allergens. Allergens are substances that cause an allergic reaction. They can include Dust mites
Mold
Pets
Pollen from grass, trees, and weeds
Waste from pests such as cockroaches and mice
Nonallergic asthma is caused by triggers that are not allergens, such as Breathing in cold air
Household chemicals
Infections such as colds and the flu
Outdoor air pollution
Tobacco smoke
Occupational asthma is caused by breathing in chemicals or industrial dusts at work
Exercise-induced asthma happens during physical exercise, especially when the air is dry
Asthma triggers may be different for each person and can change over time.
Who is at risk for asthma?
Asthma affects people of all ages, but it often starts during childhood. Certain factors can raise your risk of having asthma:
Being exposed to secondhand smoke when your mother is pregnant with you or when you are a small child
Being exposed to certain substances at work, such as chemical irritants or industrial dusts
Genetics and family history. You are more likely to have asthma if one of your parents has it, especially if it's your mother.
Race or ethnicity. Black and African Americans and Puerto Ricans are at higher risk of asthma than people of other races or ethnicities.
Having other diseases or conditions such as obesity and allergies
Often having viral respiratory infections as a young child
Sex. In children, asthma is more common in boys. In teens and adults, it is more common in women.
What are the symptoms of asthma?
The symptoms of asthma include:
Chest tightness
Coughing, especially at night or early morning
Shortness of breath
Wheezing, which causes a whistling sound when you breathe out
These symptoms can range from mild to severe. You may have them every day or only once in a while.
When you are having an asthma attack, your symptoms get much worse. The attacks may come on gradually or suddenly. Sometimes they can be life-threatening. They are more common in people who have severe asthma. If you are having asthma attacks, you may need a change in your treatment.
How is asthma diagnosed?
Your health care provider may use many tools to diagnose asthma:
Physical exam
Medical history
Lung function tests, including spirometry, to test how well your lungs work
Tests to measure how your airways react to specific exposures. Spirometry is done before and after the test.
Peak expiratory flow (PEF) tests to measure how fast you can blow air out using maximum effort
Fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO) tests to measure levels of nitric oxide in your breath when you breathe out. High levels of nitric oxide may mean that your lungs are inflamed.
Allergy skin or blood tests, if you have a history of allergies. These tests check which allergens cause a reaction from your immune system.
The broader condition is Asthma.
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Directory filing for Asthma Moderate to Severe
In our directory, Asthma Moderate to Severe is filed under Respiratory & Allergies.
Other pages filed under Respiratory & Allergies that share a word in the page name are listed here. Filing them together does not mean they are the same condition.