Asthma

Asthma is a long-term disease of the lungs. It causes your airways to get inflamed and narrow, and it makes it hard to breathe. Severe asthma can cause trouble talking or being active. You might hear your doctor call it a chronic respiratory disease. Some people refer to asthma as "bronchial asthma." Asthma is a serious disease that affects about 25 million Americans and causes nearly 1.6 million emergency room visits every year. With treatment, you can live well. Without it, you might have to go to the ER often or stay at the hospital, which can affect your daily life.

What Does Asthma Feel Like?

Asthma is marked by inflammation of the bronchial tubes, with extra sticky secretions inside the tubes. People with asthma have symptoms when the airways tighten, inflame, or fill with mucus.

There are three major signs of asthma:

Airway blockage: When you breathe as usual, the bands of muscle around your airways are relaxed, and air moves freely. But when you have asthma, the muscles tighten. It’s harder for air to pass through.
Inflammation:Asthma causes red, swollen bronchial tubes in your lungs. This inflammation can damage your lungs. Treating this is key to managing asthma in the long run.
Airway irritability:People with asthma have sensitive airways that tend to overreact and narrow when they meet even slight triggers. These problems may cause symptoms such as: Coughing, especially at night or in the morning, wheezing, a whistling sound when you breathe, shortness of breath, tightness, pain, or pressure in your chest, trouble sleeping because of breathing problems.

What Is an Asthma Attack?

An asthma attack is the episode in which bands of muscle around the airways are triggered to tighten. This tightening is called bronchospasm. During the attack, the lining of the airways becomes swollen or inflamed, and the cells lining the airways make more and thicker mucus than normal.

All of these things -- bronchospasm, inflammation, and mucus production -- cause symptoms such as trouble breathing, wheezing, coughing, shortness of breath, and trouble with normal daily activities.

When to see your doctor?

Get medical help right away if you have serious symptoms including: Fast breathing, pale or blue face, lips, or fingernails, the skin around your ribs pulls inward when you breathe in, trouble breathing, walking, or talking, symptoms that don’t get better after you take medication.

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