Bronchial asthma – promising diagnostic and therapeutic options

AUTHORS : Popova E.Yu.

RELEVANT UNIVERSITIES : “Center for Energy Information Medicine”, Samara, Russia

YEAR : 2003 | Category : Method of Treatment

Asthma, in Greek – “suffocation” – is a chronic relapsing with a predominant disease lesion of the respiratory tract, characterized by altered bronchial reactivity caused by immunological and nonimmunological mechanisms, a mandatory clinical sign of which is an attack of suffocation and / or asthmatic status. On average, it is believed that at least 2% of the total population suffer from bronchial asthma on the globe.

As a result of the disease, about 2 million people die every year. The increase in the incidence of bronchial asthma in recent years is primarily due to environmental reasons. Bronchial asthma and chronic bronchitis with an asthmatic component account for almost half of all cases of disability from chronic nonspecific lung diseases. Men under the age of 5 and over 60 are more likely to get sick with bronchial asthma, in between, women are more likely to get sick. What are the causes of bronchial asthma? A significant role in the onset of this disease belongs to infections (viral, bacterial, fungal).