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An attack of asthma can be a frightening experience. It can feel as if there is a cloud in your lungs or someone is sitting on your chest. You try hard to draw in a full breath. Your chest constricts. Your breathing accelerates. It feels, as one patient of asthma said, “Like you are drowning in air.”  The span of an asthma attack can change, depending on how long the passages have been inflamed and what caused it. Moderate episodes may last only a few minutes. The attacks that are severe can last from hours to days. Moderate attacks can resolve instinctively or may require medication, typically an inhaler that works fast. More severe asthma attacks can be decreased with accurate asthma attack treatment . SYMPTOMS OF AN ASTHMA ATTACK There are a number of symptoms of an asthma attack which may include severe wheezing when breathing both in and out, rapid breathing, coughing, chest pressure or tightness, difficulty in talking, tightened muscles of neck and chest...

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: ·          exposur...