Effect of Allergies on Asthma Patients - Asthma and Allergy

An asthma patient has particularly sensitive air passages, or airways, resulting in difficult breathing for the patient when these air passages are irritated from an introduced substance or atmospheric change.

Among both children and adults, asthma is one of the most common chronic illnesses in countries including the United States and much of Europe.  Because asthma is considered a chronic illness, treatment regimens for patients must be followed accordingly in order to reduce the affects and ongoing health problems that can result from mismanagement of the condition.

One of the most important keys to remember for an allergic patient with asthma is that treating the allergy problem preventatively is definitely worth the trouble, due to the reduced risks as well as the reduced propensity towards the patient experiencing moderate to severe asthma symptoms.

Irritants among asthma patients include pet dander, dust, chemicals in the food they eat, air pollutants and dust mites.  The fact that these irritants are more widely-prominent now that in the past gives support for evidence showing that asthma is becoming a more common health concern throughout the world than ever before.

Researchers have discovered that the environment is one of the leading causes of asthma, and acute asthma attacks.  Studies are underway to determine whether environmental modification could possible reduce – or increase – the number of asthma cases worldwide.

Because allergies are more common in people living in civilized western countries than in the rest of the world, and it just happens that most of the asthma cases in the world also occur in these areas, it is commonly thought that there is a connection between allergies and asthma.

It is also known that removing the source, or allergen, that causes a specific response in a patient will reduce the amount or severity of the allergy-induced asthma attacks suffered by a patient.

Many of the asthmatic patients that suffer from allergies are children. It is easier for a parent to remove allergens, specifically food allergens from the lifestyle of a child than it is for an adult patient to remove irritants and allergens from their own life.

Often times, removing the person from exposure to an allergen is simple. In still other cases, removing the allergen from the patient’s life is a little more difficult. An example of a difficult situation is when a patient is experiencing asthma attacks resulting from exposure to pet dander from the family dog. The most common allergen related to asthma is dust mites.

Large amounts of research are underway into the investigation of completely removing the allergy reaction process within the human body. Hopefully, this research will greatly diminish the severity of asthma among many or even all those who are diagnosed.

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