Contents:
- Medical Video: Asthma in children: Guidelines for primary care management
- How severe do you have asthma?
- Various severity of asthma
- 1. Intermittent asthma
- 2. Mild persistent asthma
- 3. Moderate persistent asthma
- 4. Severe persistent asthma
Medical Video: Asthma in children: Guidelines for primary care management
Asthma symptoms often recur and appear suddenly. Asthma recurrence is actually related to the severity of asthma that each person has. Therefore, knowing the severity of asthma is quite important, so you can know and can control it if you relapse. Then, how severe is your asthma?
How severe do you have asthma?
By knowing how severe your symptoms are, you can prevent asthma from recurring by avoiding things that can make your asthma worse. This severity can be seen from symptoms and recurrence that can be controlled or not.
To find out how severe your asthma is, answer the following questions. Answers must be adjusted to the condition of your body ...
- How many days a week do you experience chest tightness, coughing, difficulty breathing, and shortness of breath?
- Do you often wake up at night due to experiencing asthma symptoms? How often do you wake up in one week?
- How often in one week, do you use an inhaler as a medicine to treat your asthma?
- Does your asthma cause your activity to be interrupted?
Various severity of asthma
After answering these questions you can find out how severe your asthma is, by looking at the following asthma groups.
1. Intermittent asthma
Has characteristics such as:
- Symptoms: 2 days or less in one week
- Waking up in the middle of the night: 2 times or less in one month
- Using an inhaler: 2 times or less per week
- Do not experience interference when on the move
Usually if you have this type of asthma, then you will not be given asthma control drugs. It's just that you need to avoid various things that can make this asthma appear.
2. Mild persistent asthma
Has characteristics such as:
- Symptoms: symptoms appear more than 2 days a week
- Waking up in the middle of the night: 3-4 times in one month
- Using an inhaler: more than 2 times per week
- Activity is a little disturbed
If you experience this type of asthma, your doctor will only give you anti-inflammatory drugs to treat your asthma.
3. Moderate persistent asthma
Has characteristics such as:
- Symptoms: symptoms appear almost every day
- Waking up in the middle of the night: more than once a week, but not sleeping at night
- Using an inhaler: almost every day
- Disturbed activity
People who have moderate persistent asthma will be given drugs to control their asthma. In addition, patients with this type of asthma will be advised to carry out bronchodilator therapy, which is a therapy consisting of various drugs that function to relieve and facilitate breathing.
4. Severe persistent asthma
Has characteristics such as:
- Symptoms: symptoms appear every day, even almost all day
- Waking up in the middle of the night: every night
- Using an inhaler: several times a day
- Very disturbed activity
Asthma control drugs that are given to severe persistent asthma are not just one type. the doctor will give several combinations of glucocorticosteroid inhalers in high doses.
