Asthma is a chronic disease involving the airways in the lungs. These airways, or bronchial tubes, allow air to come in and out of the lungs. If you have asthma your airways are always inflamed. They become even more swollen and the muscles around the airways can tighten when something triggers your symptoms.
Know your triggers
A trigger is anything that sets off your asthma or makes the symptoms worse. Dust and pollen are two common triggers. Exercise can be another trigger in the case of exercise induced asthma. Some people have different triggers to others: for example, you might be fine walking through the pollen-heavy countryside but start coughing heavily if you’re near somebody who’s smoking. Most people will have more than one trigger. Identifying your triggers should help you avoid or at least minimise your exposure to them. If you cannot avoid exposure (e.g. in summer the pollen levels rise considerably) you know to carry an inhaler and keep your airwaves as covered as possible. Read more on Common Asthma Symptoms here.
Don’t smoke
Sounds obvious but many people with asthma are also smokers. Of course smoking is harmful to your health whether you suffer from asthma or not. However smoking is particularly harmful to people with asthma. Smoking irritates the airways and thus makes the symptoms of asthma worse. Smoking also reduces the lung capacity, which exacerbates the breathlessness often brought upon by asthma. Smoking is the largest preventable cause of death and illness in the UK. 50% of smokers die prematurely, and around 100,000 people in the UK die every year due to smoking. About 1,000 people die due to asthma each year: 1% of the number of smoking-related deaths. Get Stop Smoking Information here.
Maintain a healthy weight
A number of studies have found a link between obesity and asthma. The correlation isn’t straightforward: losing weight is unlikely to cure asthma completely. However weight loss can reduce asthma symptoms and
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