Difficulty breathing. About asthma & chronic bronchitis

Focuses on the patient and his environment
For people who never feel short of breath, it's hard to imagine how different you feel,
limited and sometimes even threatened when you feel anxious. Those threatening sensations
are daily experiences for people with lung or airway conditions. Although they
may not look sick, simple things like walking up stairs or being in a smoky room can
enter already lead to shortness of breath. Because of that shortness of breath they are limited in their
activities, with psychological and social consequences.
The main diseases that can lead to shortness of breath are chronic bronchitis, COPD
and asthma. What are the causes and how do you recognize the differences? What does asthma consist of?
treatment? What medications and inhalers are there? What can you do to reduce symptoms?
prevent and reduce?
Correct health information is important for patients and their environment. Insight into causes,
consequences and medical treatments are often the first step in a good approach to the
health problem.
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