Asthma is a serious lung disease effecting over 20 million people in
the US alone. An asthma attack is caused by a trigger, which can be
any external stimulant such as perfume, food, air pollution, cold
air, animals, dust, etc., which our bodies react to. Knowing what
your personal triggers are and avoiding them will help greatly to
prevent asthma attacks. However, what triggers an asthma attack in
some people may not even bother another asthma sufferer at all.
To make things more confusing, sometimes a trigger will cause a mild
reaction one day and then a severe one the next day. This could be
the result of being exposed to multiple triggers, for example one of
your known triggers could be pollen, but when combined with a few new
unknown triggers - fabric softener, detergent, perfume or a food
additive can hit very hard and trigger a major attack. On days when
you are feeling tired and haven't had enough sleep or are under
stress, you may also find that things which never seemed to bother
you previously now suddenly do.
As you see tracing them can be rather complex and requires a bit of
detective work to track down and eliminate or minimize these triggers
at home or at work. Keeping track of your asthma attacks by writing a
journal for a few days is a good way to start. First it's a good idea
to note how you were feeling the day you had an attack, if you were
tired or didn't sleep well, had a fight with your friend.
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