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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...

Breathing is one of the most important things our body does. If we don’t have lungs to breathe, then we won’t be able to live. And most of the time, we don’t even think about it, yet this is one amazing process that keeps us alive every day. Here are some of the most interesting facts about the lungs as confirmed by one of the best pulmonologists in Mumbai. So, feel free to share them with your friends who are looking for “the best pulmonology doctor in india ” too. ·          Both lungs are not the same size. The right lung is larger than the left lung because of the position of the heart. ·        The lungs are the only organ in the human body that can actually float on water. That’s because no matter how hard we exhale, the lungs will always retain 1 litre of air in the airways. ·          The total length of the airways is about 2400 Km. ·          ...