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Asthma
Asthma is an inflammatory disease of the airways that affects breathing, causing sufferers to suffer severe coughing, chest tightness, sibyls and a number of symptoms that make it difficult for them to inhale the air normally. Therefore, possible complications and to slow to a flare, it is important to follow a rigorous treatment.
Increase public awareness that asthma can be very dangerous if not treated properly, is what the organizers have been proposed for the Second Week of Asthma. Under the motto “Breathing is life ‘, they want to see a person with asthma may develop a normal life provided that care.
the popular belief that asthma is a disease only makes many adult children do not follow appropriate treatment. However, this condition is chronic, so it is important to continue the medication for life, to a condition estimated to affect more than 5% of the adult Spanish population.
In addition, specialists are seeing more and more people suffering from this disease go to their queries. This is due to environmental changes. Following this, in July Ancochea, president of the Spanish Society of Pneumology and Thoracic Surgery (SEPAR), states that “the most polluted air we breathe, coupled with the lifestyle of the big cities and smoking” are the main reasons for those affected by asthma are increasing in number.
All this makes the information becomes more important than ever, since it does not always know how to fit the disease. Ancochea ensures that, after going to a specialist for diagnosis, it must be borne in mind that although the crisis goes away “we must not let our guard down and follow a chronic treatment.” It also argues that the specialist is needed “a better education to explain how to make proper use of inhalers and establish measures to ensure the medication.”
Experts, who have visited Asthma Week, wanted to note that a disease is not serious but can cause disability to the patient and a great personal distress. Despite this, this condition is not any barrier to quality of life, and you can even make sport normally. Moreover, according to Ancochea “10% of the athletes who will go to the next Olympic Games suffer from this disease” without preventing them from executing their work.
Given this, Patricia Flores Celdran, Managing Director of Primary Care Health Service of Madrid, explains that, for this to become reality, “we need a change of mentality that the patient becomes protagonist.” Also, it is essential “to involve self-care professionals and the public administration to lay the foundations to promote greater information,” adds the expert.
However, it does something that is vital to keep in mind to lead a normal life, and snuff away the habits of an asthmatic. In fact, there is evidence that many children have asthma, or see their symptoms worsen, for the simple reason that their parents smoke in front of them.
No doubt, especially now that spring arrives and the symptoms are mixed with allergies, you must go to a specialist for any sign that asthma may appear, and remember that, following appropriate treatment, need not determine the pace of life who has it.