Recognize the symptoms of Asthma Attacks Early
Asthma symptoms rarely occur without a scratch. By recognizing the symptoms early, you can prevent asthma attacks emergency. Here are some early symptoms of asthma that can assist you in taking preventive action.
Initial symptoms
1. Runny nose, headache, or skin rash often precedes an asthma attack.
2. Disorders of sleep and feeling tired is another early symptom common.
3. Dark circles under the eyes and unable to exercise.
4. In addition, people are often depressed before the asthma attack began.
Prolonged cough
The symptoms of asthma attacks varies from one attack to the next attack. In one attack, chances are you just a little cough or no cough at all. In another attack, chances are you experience a prolonged cough, especially at night.
This cough is generally dry. However, sometimes the possibility of coughing up phlegm. Avoid using cough medicine, because it will not help asthma.
Changes in breathing that can be measured
Height gauges airflow (peak flow meter) can remind you about pending attacks. make sure you always know the basic size. This size mengggambarkan breathing your best.
1. If the peak flow meter showed a range of between 50 percent and 80 percent, the possibility of an asthma attack has started.
2. Figures below 50 percent indicates an emergency condition requiring immediate attention.
3. If you have difficulty walking or talking due to shortness of breath or a blue or gray lips start-odor, immediately ask to help people closest to you to seek medical help.
Follow the recommended actions of asthma medications
Based on the size of the air flow, no treatment recommendations can show what drugs should be used and when. It is important to follow recommendations and use in accordance with prescribed medications.
If symptoms continue to worsen after following advice, consult a physician. Also, do not forget to follow the recommended emergency action.
Difficulty breathing
During an asthma attack, muscles around the airways to tighten and the airway lining to swell.
1. Excess mucus produced in the respiratory tract and may inhibit the pipe in the lung.
2. The air will be trapped in your lungs and you will have trouble breathing.
First of all, you will be aware of the symptoms sound like a sigh. But as soon as the attack developed, will be increasingly tight chest and breathing became labored. This can be developed so that you feel as if can not get enough air.
Changes in posture
The effort to breathe can make someone with breathing difficulties leaned forward. In the end, the shoulder will be bent. Posture will become more tense when the increased difficulty breathing.
Withdrawal of the chest and neck
We had difficulty breathing, chest and neck tissue is likely to breath deeper and deeper every time. This condition is known as a recall. This condition indicates a lack of air entering the lungs as well as symptoms of a medical emergency. Immediately seek medical aid.
Lips or fingernails turned blue
Lips or fingernails are blue or gray is a symptom of lack of oxygen in the blood. This condition is known as cyanosis. This condition describes the emergency situation. Seek medical help as soon as possible.
Symptoms other emergency
If you see any of the following symptoms, immediately seek medical assistance:
1. Difficulty speaking
2. Inability to remove or draw a breath.
3. Shortness of breath
4. Feelings of anxiety and panic
5. A cough that does not exist rupture
6. Face pale and sweaty
