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Healthy Lifestyle, Ideal Body Weight

Maintaining an ideal body weight is one of the most important parts in management plan of asthma patients. Many researches has established the relationship between asthma and body weight. Generally, the higher body weight you have, the more risky for you to develop asthma symptoms/ attack. Risk of Obesity / …

Bronchial Thermoplasty

Asthma Treatment

Endoscopic management of severe uncontrolled asthma in adults Asthma is a chronic airway disease characterized by inflammation, hyper-responsiveness and narrowing of the airways. The goal of asthma treatment is to treat the two key components of asthma, i.e. airway inflammation and airway narrowing. The past few years have seen the …

Traditional Treatment

Asthma Treatment

Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is a traditional treatment existing over time especially external health care institutions (Ernst, 1998). For a few decades, consumption of CAM becomes increasingly popular including in our country, Malaysia (Featherstone, Godden, Selvaraj, Emslie & Took-Zozaya, 2003; Barnes, Bloom & Nahin, 2008; Siti et al, 2009) …

Obstructive Sleep Apnea & Uncontrolled Bronchial Asthma

Etiology

OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA AND UNCONTROLLED BRONCHIAL ASTHMA- WHAT IS THE LINK? Obstructive Sleep Apnea Hypopnea Syndrome (OSAHS) and asthma are 2 diseases of the common airway. Asthma affects the lower respiratory tract or also known as the lower airway. Obstructive Sleep Apnea Hypopnea syndrome (OSAHS) affects the upper respiratory tract …

Asthma and Smoking: How To Prevent

Asthma, Prevention

What Is Asthma? Asthma is a chronic lung disease that causes episodes of difficulty in breathing. Asthma symptoms are caused primarily by chronic inflammation of the airways. This makes the airways of the patient with asthma highly sensitive to various trigger factors. When the airways inflammation is triggered by any …

Asthma and Smoking

Asthma, Etiology

What is Asthma? Asthma is a chronic lung disease that causes episodes of difficulty in breathing. Asthma symptoms are caused primarily by chronic inflammation of the airways. This makes the airways of the patient with asthma highly sensitive to various trigger factors. When the airways inflammation is triggered by any …

Is Asthma Contagious?

Fact & Myth

The word “asthma” comes from the Greek meaning difficulty breathing. It is not a contagious disease and can affect anyone, including children. Source: https://www.flickr.com Like many other diseases, asthma has not escaped the beliefs or unfounded myth. There is a belief that asthma can be transmitted. Just because a person …