COPING WITH ANXIETY IN SELF QUARANTINE PERIODs

 

LIVING WITH ASTHMA IN EVERYDAY LIFE AND SOME HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINES FOR ASTHMA

Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease that affects the airways and causes difficulty in breathing. Around 300 million peoples are suffering from asthma worldwide. In this condition, the person’s airways become inflamed narrow and swell and also produce extra mucus which makes it difficult to breathe. Commonly asthma triggers when it causes inflammation in the airways. It includes pollen, dust mites, tobacco smoke, food allergies, physical activities, and weather changes.

When you breathe in a trigger, the insides of your airways swell even more. This narrows the space for the air to move in and out of the lungs. The muscles that wrap around your airways also can tighten, making breathing even harder. When this happens, it is called an asthma attack.

Asthma can sometimes be stressful and challenging. We can say asthma is a common lung condition that causes occasional difficulties too. Asthma can affect people of all ages and often starts in childhood and can also develop in mid ages too. The most common risk factors for developing the condition are having a family history of asthma contracting a viral infection as a child, suffering from allergies, or being exposed to chemical irritants. Certain emotional factors such as stress, anxiety, and worries may also trigger sudden bouts of asthma.

 SYMPTOMS OF ASTHMA

Asthma symptoms range from minor to severe and vary from person to person. Mostly asthma symptoms are:

• Wheezing or whistling sound when exhaling
• Coughing
• Shortness of breathing
• Chest tightness
• Restlessness

 

CONVENTIONAL TREATMENT

The common allopathic treatment of asthma is with antibiotics, antihistamines, bronchodilators (inhaler and nebulizer), decongestant, cough syrup, and also the steroids which give temporary relief but does not cure completely and permanently. These medicines can sometimes be associated with side-effects like muscle weakness and increased or irregular heart rate. These medicines also make the body dependent on inhalers which have become a cause of worry.

 

HOMEOPATHIC TREATMENT

Asthma is a condition that can be treated at the various level through homeopathy. Treatment under homeopathy for asthma is safe without any side effects. Homeopathy also works to root out the underlying cause of asthma. The treatment of asthma varies from individual to individual. Some require short term treatment and others requiring long term treatment. The duration of treatment depends on various factors such as severity, duration, and extent of the illness, nature of treatment taken from allopathic medicine (Steroids).

Homeopathy offers a holistic cure as it goes to the root of the problem and treats the source. Homeopathic medicines are prescribed by taking note of the symptoms of asthma experienced by the patient, his mental and physical profile of each patient. The ideal would be to found the treatment which reflects the Similimum of the case. By Similimum, it means the remedy or medicine that best matches the person not just in terms of the symptoms but also in terms of his physic that we say his constitution of the person. This would offer a deeper aspect of healing.  

Homeopathy helps in modify the hypersensitivity of the immune system. When the hypersensitivity or hyper susceptibility nature of the immune system improves in the course of treatment then he will not react adversely to the allergens which he was reacting to before. Thus, giving a long-term cure.

 

The best homeopathic medicines of asthma are –

Arsenic Album

It is the top homeopathic remedy for wheezing that gets worse during sleep. Asthmatic cough associated with wheezing gets worse at midnight, especially after midnight. There is a fear of suffocation along with constriction in air passages so it makes unable to lie down on the bed. Patients get easily exhausted. Asthma gets better by sitting up and bending forward.

2.     Antimonium tartaricum

This remedy is suited to children and the elderly, where asthma is associated with infection and a lot of mucus. When patient coughs there appears to be a large collection of mucus in the bronchi, it seems as if much would be expectorated, but nothing comes up. The mucus causes a hoarse rattling noise both on breathing in and out. The patient feels better in the cold open air and when fanned. Some other symptoms such as breathlessness which is worse from heat and lying down.

 

3.     Bacillinum

This is generally prescribed as a constitutional remedy for asthma. The person is hypersensitive to cold air. On little exposure to cold air, a person gets an allergic cough, nasal discharge, and sneezing that leads to an asthmatic problem. There is a constriction sensation in the chest with a suffocative feeling due to bronchial spasm. The person may have a hereditary condition of asthma running in the family.

 Blatta Orientalis

This is a best-suited remedy for asthma. Here asthma is seen as severe cough associated with breathlessness. There used to be much pus-like mucus that makes the patient very restless.

Bryonia Alba

It is mostly given in asthmatic attacks after slight exertion. The symptoms seen are shortness of breath with the need to take deep long breaths. This is usually accompanied by a cough which is mostly dry cough at times. The patient has an increased thirst for large quantities of water.

6.     Calcarea Carbonica

This is a constitutional remedy of par excellence. The person who are obese and lack of physical activities are red line indications of the remedy. There is profuse sweating from the head and on other parts of the body on the slightest physical exertion. Asthma gets worse while climbing stairs and exertion. There is an extreme craving for eggs. The child tends to take cold easily. 

 Natrum Sulph

This is very useful for asthma in both children and adults. The patient feels dyspnoea during damp weather. When there is coughing patient must hold the chest. It tends to worsen between 4 am to 5 am. At times the cough is experienced with greenish expectoration. Asthma is worse mostly in rainy weather and lying down and gets better in dry weather.

 Pothos foetidus

This remedy is of great help in treating asthmatic attacks triggered by dust inhalation. The patient has difficulty in breathing, sneezing along with a feeling of tightness of chest and throat pain. Asthma getting better after passing stool is a significant indicator of using this medicine.

 Sambucus Nigra

This is very effective, particularly in infants and children. It is best suited when there is a suffocative cough mostly coming around midnight with crying and dyspnoea. Children wake up suddenly and nearly suffocated, sits up and turn blue. The patient feels worse during sleep and better by sitting up. This patient gets worse at midnight or from midnight to 3 am.

  Spongia Tosta

It is very much beneficial for asthmatic patients with dry cough and shortness of breath. The cough is a dry or barking type with dry airways. When the patient feels relieved by having warm drinks, it is an important indicator of using Spongia.

 

Written by

Dr.Priyadarsini Puhan

 

 

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