Drugs are used for asthma can be divided into two types: oral steroid (and administration of the bowl, the administration of the tendon) and put directly into the lungs.
To deliver medication directly into the lungs must be through some instruments as he hit, let hit, unfortunately when you use the spray.
In addition, to diagnose and monitor treatment outcome asthma (as well as some other path), your doctor will have to use devices such as peak flow meter (Peak Flow meter peak flow Statistics), respiratory function meter (Spirometer - spirometer).
Peak design flow
Peak flow device design is simple, the price is not expensive, easy to carry. This device helps you determine the airflow from the lungs to blow out through your mouth (assessment of airway blockage in a simple way). The results of peak flow to help determine when patients need to inhale aerosol spray or asthma reliever medication - even before symptoms of asthma occur (coughing, wheezing, chest tightness, shortness of breath) This helps patients avoid asthma attacks occur.
Peak design flow can also help you and your doctor determine:
- The situation that causes an asthma attack?
- You may need to adjust the treatment plan?
- Do you need emergency treatment or not?
Peak design flow can be especially useful for those with persistent asthma severity moderate or severe to take preventive asthma medication daily.
Finally, the use of peak flow design can help you know when your asthma gets better or worse.
Respiratory function (spirometry - a spirometer)
In medicine in general, especially in asthma, in particular, the first step to effective treatment is to have the correct diagnosis.
Measurement of respiratory function is a test most commonly used in the diagnosis of asthma. Diagnosed with asthma need three elements: clinical (including medical history), and X-ray lung and respiratory function. In particular, the measurement of respiratory function is the most important, only the measurement of respiratory function allows doctors to confirm the diagnosis of asthma. In addition, the measurement of respiratory function also help your doctor assess the severity of asthma as well as to monitor the results of treatment of asthma.
Measurement of respiratory function is a test that measures the breath, is simple and painless, help assess respiratory function, especially the function push air out of the lungs.
Asthma is a disease very easily overlooked, asthma symptoms come and go, in addition to asthma patients almost normal. Furthermore, some patients with asthma sometimes have very vague symptoms, such as dry cough or have chest tightness.
In these cases, asthma is difficult to diagnose and forgotten until the lung function worsened, newly diagnosed asthma, and ... too late to save. Fortunately, the with spirometer, today the diagnosis of asthma becomes more convenient, even in the early stages.
