WHEN TO SEEK TREATMENT FOR ASTHMA

Asthma is a chronic lung condition that causes airways to swell, narrow, and produce extra mucus. If you have frequent coughing, wheezing, or difficulty breathing and these symptoms increase when you perform certain physical activities, you may be suffering from asthma. If these symptomatic episodes last more than a few days or become worse during a respiratory illness, it’s time to seek diagnosis and treatment. Asthma can be intermittent (it comes and goes, and you feel normal between flare-ups) or persistent (symptoms are present most of the time). There is no cure for asthma, but it can be treated, managed, and controlled. Asthma gets worse over time when left untreated and can lead to a life-threatening asthma attack.

P.S. Asthma can be allergic (an allergy causes an asthma flare-up or attack) or non-allergic (an exterior factor like exercise, stress, illness, or weather causes an asthma flare-up or attack).

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