As the holiday season approaches, travel and holiday stress are added, and changes in sleep behavior may affect asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). There are several tips to help prevent asthma and COPD from deteriorating during this holiday season. Common symptoms of bronchial asthma are nighttime cough, wheezing, shortness of breath. Common worsening causes of bronchial asthma are respiratory infection, rhinitis, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) or heartburn.
1. Sleep well. If you plan to get up late, if you feel lack of sleep during the weekend, sleep a little longer and go to bed before the vacation season. Maybe, if this is the case, I will go to bed one hour earlier than 30 minutes from now, will help the immunity and promote infection.
2. Avoid junk food. It goes without saying that although it is very tempting, it is a good idea to replace junk food snacks with good healthy foods by preventing bronchospasm, mucus formation, and nighttime symptoms of bronchial asthma. Cookies, paste etc are refining sugar which causes mucus formation and bronchospasm. There is normal defecation every morning, to help prevent bronchospasm, so that a high fiber diet is surely done during the holiday season. Those who do not regularly receive a high fiber diet may help with starting a high fiber diet. You can eat lots of fruits and vegetables. Apple, pear, grape, strawberry, carrot, cage, spinach are good sources of healthy fiber. Understanding the basics of dieting and having to avoid regularly helps to prevent the worsening of asthma. Dairy products such as cold food, ice cream (which produces bronchial spasms and mucus), bananas (increases sputum production and chest clogging), cold water, ice water, ice drinks and other dairy products increase bronchospasm, Please exchange it for drink. Cold weather makes worse asthma, cold liquids and drinks make the body winter. It slows the digestion of the stomach and causes bronchospasm. In our practice, by stopping this, the need for a rescue inhaler in about 6 weeks in asthmatic patients was more than 50%, in asthmatics only a decline of more than 50% was seen in a few months later. It helps if you are looking for ideas to help reduce the need for rescue inhaler use.
3. Compliance with the treatment of bronchial asthma. Regular inhaler, nebulizer, and other medications will continue according to medical professional instructions. Understand the correct technique of inhaler or sprayer. Please familiarize yourself with medication and its usual dose, maximum tolerated dose and its general side effects. If you feel that you are getting any of the side effects, please let the doctor know about it. After using an inhaler or nebulizer, please rinse your mouth to prevent oral pain. Use a peak flow meter to check the symptoms of asthma and record the symptoms. If you are a smoker rather than smoking cessation, there is a key to improving your health. Bronchial asthma and COPD will not improve and will worsen over time. Inhalers and medications will not function with ongoing smoking. If you can not control asthma or COPD worsening with a nebulizer, steroid or antibiotic, you can end up in respiratory failure and stay in a ventilator with continuous smoking. Smoking cessation is important.
4. Exercise. Regular exercise helps prevent bronchospasm and chest congestion. In patients with bronchospasm induced by exercise, it is necessary to take an inhaler before exercise. This is true as well for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and bronchial asthma.
Yoga and pranayama. Pranayama is the breathing exercise of yoga. You may learn many other exercises in pranayama and yoga to alleviate stress from local yoga instructors that may help prevent bronchospasm, chest congestion, nighttime wheeze. Yoga exercise is greatly different from regular exercise and aerobic exercise. After yoga, you may feel more relaxed and calm. Both exercises have their own merits and limitations, and you can give priority to either one based on your personality. The goal is to do nothing at all, either or both.
In our practice, patients with symptoms of severe persistent bronchial asthma have a 24-hour inhaler and a nebulizer with multiple treatments and exercise. In yoga, the number of patients unnecessary for inhalers and nebulizers is increasing. The point here is helpful in helping the overall health of yoga exercises and other periodic or aerobic exercises performed regularly and regular symptoms of asthma and treatment taken regularly That is to say.
