chest tightness and shortness of breath

"Asthma" is a common disease, which is characterized by repeated attacks and prolonged healing. It is a chronic disease. Some asthma patients start from teenagers and still have frequent attacks after entering old age. Therefore, there is a saying that "internal medicine cannot cure asthma".

Bronchial asthma is a highly sensitive bronchial disease caused by some allergens (non-allergic factors can also be caused) from the outside or in the human body. Due to the over-sensitive reaction of bronchus to irritants (allergens), extensive reversible bronchospasm and stenosis occur. The clinical manifestation is paroxysmal expiratory dyspnea, accompanied by wheezing, which lasts for several minutes to several hours and gets better after treatment or self-improvement. In severe cases, it can last for several days to weeks or several times a day, and the patient is very painful. Asthma lasts for a long time, and people have various symptoms of hypoxia, such as angina pectoris, heart failure, pulmonary encephalopathy and other serious consequences caused by myocardial hypoxia and brain hypoxia. Long-term recurrent attacks are often complicated with chronic bronchitis, emphysema and pulmonary heart disease.

Bronchial asthma can occur at any age, but 50% of patients get sick at an early stage. 20% patients have a family history.

Exhaled dyspnea accompanied by wheezing, chest tightness, difficulty in exhaling, forced to sit down for several minutes to several days. Patients with severe asthma have obvious cyanosis in complexion and lips. When the attack is about to stop, the cough is more intense. After coughing up more thin sputum, dyspnea was relieved, asthma stopped and returned to normal. But it can happen many times in one day.

Preventive measures:

Actively look for allergens and causes after the attack. Take preventive measures against allergens. At the same time, quit smoking and prevent colds. Strengthen physical exercise and enhance disease resistance. Appropriate vaccine treatment or nuclear cheese injection, as well as transfer factor therapy (if possible) can alleviate or reduce the onset of asthma.