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What And How To Asthma?
By Prof. Dr. dr. Heru Sundaru, Sp.PD, KAI
Asthma symptoms are known because of the shortness of breath, coughing and wheezing caused by airway narrowing. Asthma disease most common in children and potentially interfere with the growth and development. Allergies can affect all organs and body functions without exception. Besides, many other health problems that accompany the form of other organ disorders, behavioral disorders and other health problems, Many cases of asthma in people who are not diagnosed, which was diagnosed was not necessarily getting better treatment. Not to mention the problem of medical costs, absence from school or work, disruption of social activities and influence of the pain of the people associated with asthma disease. Asthma is a disease that has many causative factors, which is most often due to atopy or allergic factors. The factors that cause and trigger asthma include house dust with fur, cigarette smoke, smoke mosquito coil, and others. This disease is a hereditary disease. If one or both parents, grandfather or grandmother child is suffering from asthma can be lowered to the children, asthma is not contagious but the disease hereditary disease. Based on data from the World Health Organization (WHO), as many as 300 million people worldwide suffering from asthma and 225 thousand people died of asthma in the year 2005. The results of the study International Study on Asthma and Allergies in Childhood in the same year in Indonesia showed that the prevalence of asthma symptoms increased from by 4.2% to 5.4%. Asthma disease is incurable and drugs are currently only works relieve symptoms. However, with asthma control, asthma sufferers can be free from asthma symptoms that can lead disturbing activities of daily living. Given the many risk factors that contribute, then the priority treatment of asthma has so far aimed to control the symptoms. A good control is expected to prevent the occurrence of exacerbations (asthma symptoms), normal lung function, achieving a good social activity and improve quality of life of patients. You can know more asthma in this detail page includes the symptoms of asthma, asthma diagnosis, the cause of asthma, asthma trigger factors, treatment, prevention and living with asthma. More clearly about asthma visit www.allergiesinfo.net
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