Can Asthma Be Cured With Surgery?

Asthma is an illness that affects the breathing paths of the lungs, it is caused by continues inflammation of these paths. An asthmatic patient finds it difficult to breathe because the breathing tubs or airways are highly sensitive to several triggers.

An individual with asthma can visit a pulmonologist who specializes in the diagnoses and treatment of issues that disturbs the respiratory system.

Asthma cannot be cured but it can be well managed. If the asthma is controllable one can undergo major surgery such as Bronchial thermosplasty.

Bronchial thermoplasty is the supplying of controlled and therapeutic radiofrequency energy to the airwall. The heat release, heats the tissue and reduces the degree of smooth muscle present in the airway wall. With moderate sedation, the patients can still go home the same day.

Triggers

Different individuals have different triggers, some of the common triggers are:

·         exposure to tobacco or wood smoke

·         breathing polluted air

·         exposure to airway irritants at the workplace

·         Inhaling allergic substances such as dust, perfume, and other products

·         exposure to cold, dry weather

·         emotional excitement or stress

·         physical exertion or exercise

Symptoms

·         wheezing,

·         breathlessness,

·         chest tightness,

·         coughing, and

·         difficulty speaking.

Asthma attack treatment

If you experience an Asthma attack, there are medications given to you to keep the Asthma under control.

Short-acting beta agonists.

They are the same medication with those in your rescue inhaler. You may need a machine called the nebulizers to liquify the medication, sending it quickly to your lungs.

Oral corticosteroids.

These medications in the form of pills reduce lung inflammation and put the asthma symptom under control. Corticosteroids are used when the patient is vomiting and has respiratory failure

Intubation, mechanical ventilation and oxygen. 

If the asthma is critical and life-threating, the doctor may put a breathing tube down your throat into the upper airway. With the aid of a machine that pumps oxygen into lungs, you will be able to breathe and the doctor can give you other medication to keep asthma under control.

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