Know Your Asthma Treatment Better

Asthma can affect your life severely if that is not treated and managed rightly. Problem to breathe, tightness in chest, chronic coughing are the most common symptoms of asthma. The treatments for the same is constantly improved and there are multiple treatment options available for it. Let’s delve into the treatment options first then to the steps taken by an allergy and asthma clinic. The objective of the treatment is to help the patient breathe better. Yet there is no treatment for complete asthma cure but the options can help the patient to live a normal life.

How to Treat Asthma?

The first step for treating asthma is to decide what type of asthma you have depending on a physician creates your individual treatment plan. The types of asthma are allergic asthma, adult-onset asthma, occupational asthma, exercise-induced asthma and more.

Inhaler Therapy

The most common method for treating asthma is inhaler or puffer. You may already know how an inhaler looks. It looks like a small aerosol cannister along with an attached mouthpiece. It allows the medicine to go directly into the lungs and immediately opens the lungs.

Biologic Therapy

The patients with the severe asthma symptoms could be suggested for biologics. It targets the specific molecules of the body and reduces reaction.

Immunotherapy

The allergy shots are provided for the long-term relief for the allergic patients. The patients get injectables allergens for building the immunity until the large dose. After that the patient gets into the maintenance phase. Only a trained specialist can monitor this therapy in an allergy and asthma clinic.

Treatment Steps

Symptoms Track

  • Breathing shortness

  • Whistling sounds while exhaling

  • Sleeping trouble due to breathe shortness

  • Coughing

  • Wheezing

  • Tightness in chest and pain

  • Changed phlegm color

  • Runny nose

  • Sneezing

  • Relief after using inhalers.

Treatment Record

The doctor is most likely to record the results of breathing test that is lung function test after allergy treatment. If the symptoms are not in control, the treatment will extend more.

Treatment Adjustment

When the lungs are not working well even after the treatment, there must be changes in the plan. The doctor will change the medication according to your state of health.

Is the aforementioned problem bothering you? If yes, visit an allergy clinic at the earliest. Make an appointment today with OKOA for allergy treatment. For pediatric ENT, adult ENT issues, sinusitis, see us.

**Disclaimer: The information on this page is not intended to be a doctor's advice, nor does it create any form of patient-doctor relationship.

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