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- Symptoms?
Coughing, especially at night
Wheezing
Shortness of breath
Chest tightness, pain, or pressure
- Treatment?
Become a partner with your health care provider and his or her support staff. Use the resources they can offer--information, education, and expertise--to help yourself
Become aware of your asthma triggers and do what you can to avoid them.
Follow the treatment recommendations of your health care provider. Understand your treatment. Know what each drug does and how it is used.
- Prevention?
If your asthma attacks are triggered by an allergic reaction, avoid your triggers as much as possible.
Keep taking your asthma medications after you are discharged. This is extremely important. Although the symptoms of an acute asthma attack go away after appropriate treatment, asthma itself never goes away.
- Who’s Affected by it?
People with asthma can be of any race, age or sex. African Americans are more likely than caucasians to be hospitalized for asthma attacks and to die from asthma.
HEREDITY. To some extent, asthma seems to run in families. People whose brothers, sisters or parents have asthma are more likely to develop the illness themselves.
ATOPY. A person is said to have atopy (or to be atopic) when he or she is prone to have allergies
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