Asthma is a chronic disease affecting the respiratory system. During an asthma attack, airways, which bring oxygen in and out of the lungs, tend to tighten and thus reduce the flow of oxygen coming to the lungs. The airways also become inflamed and lined up with mucus. Those symptoms might occur many times a day or week, or a lot less often. The gravity of the attacks also changes.
Several triggers may be responsible for asthma attacks and the breathlessness which comes with it. Asthma may also cause loss of consciousness and chest pain. It is a very serious disease that can sometimes prove to be deadly: indeed, while 300 million people suffer from asthma around the world, asthma attacks account for the death of around 250,000 people every year.
People with asthma also have to go through its side effects in their everyday life. Sleeplessness is a regular experience that may lead to fatigue during the daytime, and may have a negative impact on one’s personal and professional life. The World Health Organization even acknowledges the fact that “reduced activity levels” as well as “school and work absenteeism” are usual side effects of asthma. Sports will often be more difficult for people who suffer from asthma, which may for example be a social isolation factor for a child.
Although asthma cannot be definitively cured, there are several ways to relieve and prevent the symptoms, allowing everybody that has asthma to stay in shape, exercise and lead a normal life. With the appropriate treatments, there is no reason why anybody that has asthma should not be allowed to enjoy an active life.
Different factors can trigger an asthma attack. Some are very simple things like the temperature and humidity of the air. However, the most usual ones are natural environmental allergens, like house dust mites, cockroaches, spore and pollen as well as pollution from chemical compounds, like the ones found in perfumes and perfumed products, tobacco smoke or fossil fuel related air pollution. Medications like penicillin or aspirin as well as a certain number foods, like milk or peanuts, in the case of food allergies, can also trigger asthma. Asthma attack might also occur after exercising.
Your emotional state can also be an important factor in triggering an asthmatic attack. Emotional stress, anxiety and tension are all able to trigger it. Several people experiencing an asthmatic attack also make their condition worse by falling prey to panic, a very normal response to the scary experience they have to live through.
In order to better prevent asthmatic attacks, all of these triggers should be avoided as much as possible. Allergies are also responsible for triggering asthma attacks and allergy treatment may be used as a way to prevent them. There are nonetheless various kinds of asthma treatment. In the short-run, asthma attack treatment will give relief in the case of an asthmatic attack. Asthma attack treatment will quickly provide asthma relief, however people suffering from moderate or severe asthma must use a long-run asthma treatment.
There are various sorts of bronchial asthma treatment available out there, however not all of them will work out for you. Bronchial asthma treatment and allergy treatment also have a lot of side effects when taken regularly and in the long run, particularly drugs containing corticosteroids or Beta2-adrenergic receptor agonists, the latter having cardiac side effects and increasing the risk of respiratory death. Such problems might explain why around fifty percent of the people who suffer from asthma use some form of alternative treatment, like natural asthma treatment.
Even though almost no evidence proves the efficiency of therapies like air ionizers or chiropractic, other forms of natural asthma treatments like homeopathy, yoga practices and hypnosis have shown notable results as asthma treatment. Hypnotherapy, just like meditation or yoga, but in a much faster and easier way, provides asthma relief because it can help handle the emotional aspect of asthma through relaxation. With hypnotherapy you will become a lot more relaxed, which can help reduce the occurrences of asthmatic attacks. It will also make you able to better handle the fear and panic during an attack, thus greatly reducing the symptoms. Most asthmatics are completely aware when an attack is imminent, and specific hypnosis techniques exist which enable the asthmatic person to abort an impending attack.
Asthma is a serious respiratory disease, which can be really handicapping and sometimes even deadly. Drugs can help you with the physical symptoms and can give prompt relief in case of an attack. However those drugs have a lot of negative side effects, especially when taken too often. NLP and hypnotherapy can reduce your need for drugs. It is also an effective asthma treatment and asthma attack treatment and can help you prevent the occurrences of asthmatic symptoms.
Alan B. Densky is an NLP Practitioner who is also certified by the NGH. He is a full time practitioner who has created effective self hypnosis Asthma Treatment CD’s. His Neuro-VISION Hypnotherapy site features free newsletters, an exceptional hypnosis research library, and free hypnosis videos.
- Alan B. Densky, CH
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