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On World Asthma Day on Eidul Fitr, in an awareness program launched by doctors, they said bronchial asthma is becoming a serious global health problem.
They further added that it was very important on the part of treating physicians to give knowledge about the disease first and then prescribe the drugs since asthma was a long-standing disease and the only thing, which could be assured, was the excellent control of the disease. It is wrong to commit a cure for the disease.
He added that a common belief among most patients of bronchial asthma was that it gets worse because of milk, curd, lassi, and fruits like bananas and rice. Doctors assured me that this was a misconception and that patients should consume these foods without hesitation.
They said diet allergy of course is important in asthma. “Diet allergy-like peanut, fish, egg, and other articles, of course, can cause asthma in a very little percentage of cases. Only inhalation therapy is the mainstay of treatment for asthma. Inhaled steroids are quite safe and efficacious in the treatment of asthma.
“Properly done allergy tests and immunotherapy as a great tool in modifying its treatment. Inhalers are not an addiction at all as thought by most of the patients suffering from asthma,” they tried to clear a few misconceptions.”
They said, “The other cause of concern is that asthma is rapidly increasing in children. About 12-15 percent, of children, are suffering from asthma. It can occur at any age and is more common in boys as compared to girls. Allergy to pollens, insects, dust mites, pets, viral infection, tobacco smoking leads to increased severity of asthma.”
They said most of the patients are either undiagnosed or misdiagnosed and thus remained untreated. The main symptoms are cough, wheezing in the chest, breathlessness, and sneezing.
According to doctors, clear communication and health education is the key to compliance in the control of asthma. They revealed a new revolution in the treatment of bronchial Asthma by doing bronchial thermosplasty patients will have new hope because with this procedure the narrowing of bronchi will be minimized.
