The latest research data show that there are nearly 300 million asthma patients in the world, of which China has about 30 million asthma patients, accounting for 1/10 of the world’s asthma patients.
It should be noted that asthma cannot be cured completely, and the purpose of our treatment is to achieve an ideal control state.
A 2010 study in China showed that about 40% of asthma patients have achieved good control effect. Compared with ten years ago, they have made a lot of progress, but there is still much to be done on the long road of revolution.
So how many of the following common detours have you taken in treating asthma?
Resistant hormone
When some patients hear the word hormone, their reaction must be especially intense:
Hormones are tigers and must not be used! Premature development of children and necrosis of femoral head in strong youth are all caused by hormones.
The above is our negative example. One thing I often emphasize is that any act of talking about drug safety regardless of dosage, course of treatment and method is a hooligan. The next time you hear someone say that to you, you can call him a hooligan.
First of all, we must be fully aware that inhaling hormones is currently the most effective drug to control asthma.
Inhaled hormones directly act on the respiratory system and seldom enter the whole body, so the adverse reactions are mild. Even pregnant women and children can use them. As long as hormones are used under the guidance of doctors, they are very safe.
Radical treatment of asthma
Once some people suffer from asthma, they immediately lose their footing. They will not hesitate to spend a lot of money to find the so-called ancestral secret recipe for curing asthma. Colorful psoriasis advertisements on public toilets or telegraph poles will never let go when they catch one. They will try it anyway. If they rush to the doctor, they will often lose their wives and fold their troops.
At present, the medical profession believes that asthma cannot be cured completely. The purpose of asthma treatment is only to pursue long-term clinical control, without asthma symptoms, lung function close to normal, and activity is not affected.
It should be said here that not all diseases can be cured. In medicine, most diseases are incurable, such as primary hypertension, coronary heart disease, diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, etc. Survival with diseases should become our common medical knowledge and treat this common medical knowledge with common heart.
Lack of close-fitting first aid drugs
Many patients with mild illness, especially those who have just been diagnosed with asthma, may not be used to carrying first aid drugs (drugs to relieve asthma symptoms), which is quite dangerous behavior.
What should you do if you go out without medicine, have a sudden attack of asthma, and cannot reach the village or the store in front of or behind? Although some patients can gradually relieve after rest, there are many people who died as a result.
Therefore, any asthma patient, especially those who still have asthma attacks in the near future, must carry first aid drugs with them. In addition, one bottle should be put on reserve at home, in the car, in the office and other places to truly cover everything.
The foolproof way is to rely on normal control treatment. If normal control treatment is done well, the number of acute attacks of asthma can be greatly reduced, even without attacks.
Irregular medication
Many asthma patients still have a vague understanding of asthma. They think that it is very wrong to treat asthma only when the acute attack of asthma is uncomfortable and stop taking drugs once the disease is relieved.
Asthma needs controlled treatment, that is to say, long-term medication is needed to control asthma, of which the most effective drug is inhaled hormone.
Of course, if you insist on using drugs every day, you can try to stop taking drugs under the guidance of a doctor when you can maintain the ideal state for a long time with the lowest dose of inhaled hormone.
Forget to rinse after inhaling hormone
Patients who use inhaled hormones must remember to rinse their mouth after inhaling hormones.
We rely on inhaling hormones to control asthma. What really works is the part of drugs inhaled into the trachea and lungs. What remains in the oral cavity and throat is redundant. In order to minimize the adverse reactions of drugs, we need to rinse our mouth in time to clean up the residual part of drugs.
Dare not to eat cold things
The key to eating or not eating is whether you stick to the correct asthma treatment.
If you are currently receiving active treatment, you can eat cold things such as ice cream to satisfy your appetite. If you are fine after eating and do not induce asthma attacks, you can eat them in the future, but the premise is still not excessive.
Dare not to exercise
Some patients may begin to fear exercise because of asthma induced by exercise, which is also a mistake.
Exercise-induced asthma is called exercise asthma. In addition to normal control treatment, inhaling acute remission drugs before exercise can effectively prevent asthma attacks.
Asthma patients should not only not be afraid of exercise, but also exercise bravely and actively. Just don’t exercise vigorously. Lighter exercises such as jogging are very suitable for asthma patients and are also conducive to the control of asthma. However, it is better to carry out all this under the guidance of doctors.