Asthma 1

The term , asthma, comes from Greek word, aazein, which means to exhale with open mouth, to pant,
Asthma is a psychiatric disorder triggered by allergens, dysfunctional relationship, domestic violence and stress.
Asthma distrups normal familial functioning, it can also affect the individual's social life and belief in their abilities. For most asthmatics life is a big challenge, but asthma can also teach resilience.
Have you heard of asthmatic individuals who managed to attain great success in life, by battling tough situations ? For example, the Joyner Kersee , batteled asthma and achieved superstardom.
Causes
Allergies and stress these are said to make one susceptible to the condition.
A combination of family history and exposure to allergens or irriatants , like pollen and mould, mites , animal dander , smoke and chemicals, are major trigger factors for asthma.
Likewise certain conventional medications , like painkillers or certain foods , aside from obesity, or infections can trigger asthma.
Asthma is also caused by emotional factors. Researchers suggests that anxiety is often the effect of asthma, not necessarily the cause.
Asthma in children
A common cause of school absenteeism, asthma accounts for an estimated 16 million lost school days, with nearly four million doctor visits and more than two million hospitalisations each year.
Children with asthma often suffer from cough and wheeze , they also experience chest tightness and shortness of breath. Researche indicates that viruses, rather than bacteria are to blame for such flare ups .
Many parents do not believe children need not have a where to be labelled asthmatic. Because, for the most part , the only symptoms present may be frequent, annoying, cough particularly at night, or during any physical activity. Children who have suffered from a disease of the air passages, recurrent bronchitis, or allergic bronchitis are predisposed to asthma, or asthma like symptoms. Respiratory infections, including flu , can also trigger asthmatic episodes in them
Exposure to second hand tobacco smoke is just as important,it is widely accepted cause of childhood asthma. Also the children of parents who smoke are more prone to asthma than children of parents who don't smoke. Most children, who suffer from respiratory allergies and asthma, are known to suffer from skin allergies like atopic dermatitis or eczema.
Symptoms and Diagnosis
Asthma presents itself with cough, mostly dry cough ( sometimes with mucous, or phlegm) wheezing an audible whisking sound while breathing out and breathlessness, accompanied by chest tightness or pain . There may also be some difficulty when lying down, due to breathlessness.
Your dr. Will conduct a physical examination, followed by case anylsis looking into you family and personal history. Most doctors rely on a combination of medical history, physical examination and lab tests . This may include clinical parameters to diagnose asthma, and discern it from other lungs disorders, or conditions, such as bronchitis or pneumonia. These include.
Spirometry, to measure the air taken into and out of the lungs
Peak flow monitoring to asses lung function.
Chest X-ray
Blood tests.
Allergy tests

Homoeopathic medicines.
Homoeopathy treats the person, the individual's, suffering from asthma by taking a holistic Outlook. It examines not just the symptoms one experiences during an attack, but also all the changes and variations that occur on the physical, mental and emotional levels, this helps to determine how a person's health and well being have been altered.Homoeopathy analyses the hereditary factors and environmental triggers too, to complete the Individual's constitutional portrait, while stimulating the individual's immunity by treating the cause of the illness and not just the illness state or diagnosis .
Whether/ seasonal variations
Better open air Ammonia carb
Better through, or during thunderstorm.    Siliceia.
Worse summer.   Syhilnum
Worse winter  b ARS alb
Worse monsoon   Nat Sul
Worse open air.   Siliceia
Time
Worse   12 pm    lobelia inf
Worse 10.to 11 am  Ferm met
Worse 10 pm.  Mephites
Worse 11 pm 2 am   ARS iod
Worse 2 am 3 am. Kali carb
Worse 4 am 5 am    Nat Sul
Position
Better bending backwards  Calc carb
Better lying down  Psorinum
Better rocking   Kali carb
Better sitting. ARS alb
Better standing Cannabis sat
Better walking. Drosera
Worse bending backwards. Hepar sulph
Worse raising arms  Spigelia
Worse standing. Sepia
Worse walking. Stannum met
General
Better eating. Graphites
Better with eructations   Carbo veg
Worse music.  Ambra grs
Worse while urinating    Ignatia
Hormonal factors.
Worse after menses  Nat Mur
Worse before menses   Sulphur
Worse during menses    Spongia t
Percipitating factors
Anger     Chamomilla
Coffee.  Belladonna
Dust and fog  Pothos foet
Emotional upsets Nat Mur
Exertion.   LYC
Fright.   Aconite nap
Hysterical reaction.  Moschus
Disappointment in love, or heart break  Acid phos
Odours   Phosphorus
Vaccination Thuja