Chronic bronchial asthma is a permanent disease of the airways and often closely associated with an allergy. Asthma symptoms are usually incurred attention, not infrequently at night. For people with asthma, the airways are overly sensitive. For people with frequent asthma symptoms are particularly bronchial always easily ignited. This goes with mucosal swelling, accumulation of tough mucus and respiratory muscles tense hand. Thus, the airways constricted. Different influences such as a simple cold can reinforce the narrowing, and it is temporarily or permanently, such as complaints

  • Whistling breathing
  • Cough or irritation
  • Tightness in the chest
  • Shortness of breath

Like most chronic diseases, asthma affects not only a single organ - in this case the lungs - but the whole person. When asthma attacks, for example, disrupt sleep the night, you're tired during the day and restless. Even the physical fit can suffer.

So far as asthma is not curable. But it is possible to use certain drugs and conduct themselves well severe asthma under control. The prerequisite is the disease and its treatment understand. Although frequently between allergic and non-allergic asthma differed, all asthma symptoms in principle with the same medicines.

Asthma affects many people: About 5-10 out of 100 children (from 5 to 10 percent) and about 5 of 100 adults (5 percent) have asthmatic symptoms. It did not all children with asthma also later as an adult complaints.