How
trigger factors induce asthmatic attack?
Contact with a trigger factor induces two attacks of
asthma. The first attack starts a few minutes after
contact with a trigger such as dust mite, pollens,
insects, pets, mold, drugs, food, exercise, stress, kitchen
fumes, cold, pollution and chest infection. It is called early response.
Both allergic and non allergic factors induce this attack.
However allergic trigger contact induces a second attack
of asthma that starts after 4 to 8 hours after the trigger
contact. It is called late response. The
second attack is more severe. Therefore, day time
exposure to triggers leads to severe asthmatic attack during night time.
How
to defeat; identity trigger factors?
For
an asthmatic patient asthma is the top
enemy. How do we deal with our enemies in real life?
Usually we gather maximum information about our enemy.
Weakness of enemy is exploited and strong points are
tackled. By adopting proper strategies built on these
features we can defeat an enemy. By using the same
principles you can defeat asthma. Asthma trigger factors
are your enemies and therefore the first step in the
battle against asthma is to identify your enemies means trigger
factors.
Whenever you have symptoms of asthma and
allergy try to observe the potential trigger factors in the
environment and activities done immediately before onset of
the symptoms. If you fail to detect any factor then you should
suspect exposure of trigger factor 4-8 hours before
onset of symptoms. These might be few suspect able trigger factors.
Avoid contact with trigger
factors: Is it essential ?
On a skin sore if you sprinkle a few
granules of red chilly powder daily, how quickly
will your wound heal? Even the best medicines will fail
to heal the wound. An asthmatic patient has allergy
wounds in nose and airways. When trigger factors such as
pollen and dust come in contact with these wounds they would cause irritation like chilly powder. In
such a situation, even the best medicine will fail to
heal the airway inflammation, and hence asthma.
Therefore, trigger contact must be checked to improve
asthma.
Avoid
trigger contact: Asthmatic style?
With the availability of
inhaled drugs, acute attacks of asthma now a days can be
controlled effectively. However, for sustained symptom free
period and prevention, the trigger factor control is very
important. Though it is very effective strategy in the
management of asthma, yet it remains grossly under-utilized in
India.
In western countries,
people spend most of their time in the indoor activities where
housing, business establishment and offices are pollution free
or having air-conditioning everywhere. Therefore, it is easier
to avoid the environment trigger factors. But the Indians
spend most of their time in outdoor activities, which involves
interactions with a series of environment related trigger
factors. Controlling trigger factors is a challenging task in
such a life style. However, it is possible. Adopt a modified
methodology of living a trigger related life by which you can
perform your work without interacting a trigger or an
irritant. These modified methods of doing works involving a
consideration about triggers are useful for everybody and
essential for asthmatic patients. Therefore it is called Asthmatic Style of Working. This style can be
applied as "life's code of conduct" for asthma
patients.
Majority of patients usually come in contact with trigger
factors during routine work of daily life. Asthmatic
lifestyle is a modified method of performing work in
such a way as to check trigger contact. Example, while
clearing wheat, contact with grain dust aggravates
asthma. However, if you clean the grain by washing and
drying, you will not be exposed to grain dust and
therefore will not have asthma. This is the asthmatic
style of clearing grains. Similarly, you can learn various asthmatic
styles through asthmacure.com. Mere
identification and prevention from trigger factors
causing induction of Asthma can save you from episodes
of asthma and could keep you in a state of good health.
Trigger Factor Quiz
Solving these quizzes related to trigger factors will help
you to identify your trigger factors which are aggravating
asthma or which might cause asthma Trigger
factor Quiz.
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