asthma attack cause

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Q: Can panic attacks cause an asthma attack?
Sometimes when I have panic attacks, I start to wheeze uncontrollably. I do have asthma, and I was wondering can fear set of asthma? I was diagnosed with asthma 2 weeks ago and I don’t really know too much about it. Sorry.

A: Panic attacks start when the fight-or-flight response of the body acts up uncontrollably, usually without any explicit cause. The actual attack sets in because this scares us tremendously and causes even further fear and anxiety to be generated, then the elevated level of anxiety scares us even further… and so on and so on… it’s a self-aggravating process that sort of automatically makes itself stronger over a very short period of time by ‘feeding back into ourselves’.

Panic attacks usually don’t cause actual medical problems. It’s possible that if you become so scared and panicked that you begin to hyper-ventilate, then your asthma-afflicted lungs will naturally have some difficulty. Usually though, people suffering from panic attacks are simply so terrified that subtle changes in breathing and heart beat FEEL very exaggerated.

One of the most common things that frighten people having anxiety attacks is the overwhelming notion that they are about to have a heart attack. They seem to literally feel their heart practically beating its way out of the chest. In actuality, though, a heart attack almost never really occurs (at least no more often than the ordinary person gets a heart attack). The individual is simply experiencing heightened sense perceptions that typically accompany the fight-or-flight response, and don’t realize that they are actually just paying closer attention to their heartbeat than they ever would bother to ordinarily. Thus, their increased heart-rate seems to them to be many times more pronounced than it actually is.

Q: Can eating sushi cause an asthma attack?
I get asthma sometimes, but usually only if I drink alcohol, if it’s cold or if the pollen count is REALLY high.

Today, none of those things have happened, but I had an attack straight after I ate a mixed sushi pack. There was a California roll and several salmon and prawn roles. I had soy sauce with it, too.

Could anything I’ve described cause the attack???
Sorry, I should have also said that I’m relatively new to sushi. I only started eating recently. I’ve probably had it three times the past five weeks.

A: Did you have sushi or sushi mi? Was the food cooked or raw? Also, where did you purchase it? If you bought it at a restaurant is it one that is new to you or have you gone to it prior to today? I ask this because some restaurants still use MSG and sulfites to keep the cooked food fresher tasting. If the food was raw and it was the first time that you had sushimi then it might have been an allergic reaction to the prawns. Shell fish are one of the biggest allergies seen in foods next to soy and peanuts. If you purchased the sushi pack ina grocery store than you diffinitely have preservatives in addition to the prawns and soy product. You should definitely talk to your doctor about doing a trial of allergiy tests that include the ingredients that you might have ingested to make sure that you don’t have another,worse attack. I certainly wouldn’t be having any more sushi until I did.

Q: Could stress cause an asthma attack?
I have intermittent asthma, and havent had an attack in awhile. Except for tonight…My downstairs neighbors are complete idiots and will do anything to cause trouble, well tonight they took some outdoor property of ours and basically destroyed it. I got so upset that I had an asthma attack, was the attack caused by stress of me being so mad and upset? I had the attack 2 hours ago and my chest still hurts and feels like im slighlty short of breath, I used my inhaler..but im still hurting a bit.

A: Stress can trigger an asthma attack. stress can send signal to the body which can cause closing of airway that is why you are gasping for air and that’s why you can hear your lungs whistle sometimes.

Q: how much of 2nd hand smoke cause an asthma attack?
my husband smokes, not around my 2 yr.old daughter but has smoke smell on him. my daughter has bad asthma, how much of the smell on him causes her to have an asthma attack?

A: Regardless of what non-smoking Nazi’s tell you, you can’t get asthma from smoking. It is a genetic disorder. Either the asthma is in your genes, or your husbands genes. Your husbands smoking did not give it to her. So tell him he can smoke around her now.

Q: Can an Anxiety/Panic attack cause an Asthma attack?
I’m doing a little research for a writing assignment; my main idea is a character that has panic attacks brought on by anxiety. I know that, during a panic attack, one can have dizziness and shortness of breath. What I need to know is whether the increased heart rate that often accompanies a panic attack could induce a related asthma attack. Sources are appreciated; I tried to look on WebMD but to no avail.

A: I have both anxiety and panic disorder.

I was diagnosed with asthma in hosp emergency rooms many times because I couldn’t catch my breath, but I believe the anxiety and panic attacks caused both severe chest pain and loss of breath.

I still have a doctor that argues I have asthma and won’t remove it from my medical records. I don’t take any medicine for it, just antidepressants and a mood stabilizer for anxiety, panic, ptsd and bipolar disorder.

Isn’t it strange that when the panic attacks quit, so did the “asthma” attacks.

Q: why does laughing hard cause an asthma attack?
I have experienced, and heard/read, that laughing hard can trigger an asthma attack? Why exactly is that? What happens within your body that triggers it?

thanks

A: http://health.dailynewscentral.com/content/view/000891/74/

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Laughter Can Trigger Asthma Attack
27 May, 2005 22:33 GMT

Ever laughed so hard you couldn’t breathe? For people with asthma, it’s no joke. New York researchers reported Tuesday that more than half of people with asthma indicate laughing sometimes triggers their symptoms.

“It’s as common as some of the most well-known asthma triggers, such as grasses, trees, pollen, fumes and odors — and it’s even more common than dust mites, allergy to animals and molds. It’s a little-appreciated frequent trigger,” said Dr. Stuart Garay, a professor of medicine at New York University Medical Center in New York.

Garay reported the results of his study before the American Thoracic Society’s International Conference in San Diego.

Asthma is a chronic lung disease that affects more than 17 million Americans. Asthma occurs when a trigger causes inflammation of the airways, which in turn makes the passages of the lungs smaller and makes it more difficult to move air in and out.

The study of 235 patients with asthma found that 56 percent had experienced laughter-induced asthma. Most commonly, they started coughing or experiencing chest tightness within two minutes of laughing hard.

Asthma experts have long known that any of a number of strong emotions and stress — anger, crying, yelling or laughing — can act as triggers, but the extent it served as a trigger hadn’t been quantified.

Asthmatics don’t have to guffaw hard or for long to bring on an attack, either, Garay said. “It depends on the patient. For a majority of patients, mild laughter or even a chuckle will set off coughing. For others, laughing hard will bring on asthma symptoms.”

It’s not clear how laughter brings on inflammation that narrows airways, but Garay said it probably involves hyperventilating. He noted that exercise was the only trigger more common than laughter in patients who reported laughter-induced asthma.

Sixty-one percent of those patients reported exercise also caused asthma. Of those who said their asthma was never laughter-induced, only 35 percent said exercise was a trigger.

The researcher said asthma triggered by laughing doesn’t seem to cause more asthma flare-ups that require emergency room visits or hospitalization.

“But patients did report that during times when their asthma is well-controlled, they can laugh for longer without getting asthma symptoms. That suggests that laughter-induced asthma may be a sign that a person’s asthma isn’t as well controlled as it could be,” Garay said. “People with asthma should be allowed to laugh.”

(c) 2005 Scripps Howard

Q: Why could beta 1 blockers cause an asthma attack and why would it be difficult to treat?

A: Selective b-blockers are proportionally selective for receptors. i-e atenolol is B1 selective compared to B2 in ratio of 1:20. So, when a patient gets over exposed to the drug, both types of receptors get occupied.

Now remember the treatment of overdosage of B-Blockers (where b-AGONISTS) are useless & Glucagon is needed to reverse), same principle applicable here. Once the receptors in the lungs(b2) are occupied, there is no way to reverse it, other than the drug’s half life is reached and its molecules detached from the receptor binding sites. Therefore, until that period of time, management of the patient is quite a difficult task.

However, this is very rare in practice, as B1 selective rarely occupy receptors in the lungs (b2).

Q: Can talking exacerbate asthma or cause an attack?
Sometimes when I talk alot, I get out of breath and it triggers my asthma.

Can this really be a trigger?

So basically walking, talking, breathing even, anythign and everything can trigger asthma!?!?!

lol.

Will using a more eath friendly and pure laundtry detergent + safer cleaning products help any?

I’m really trying to beat this but literally everything that I do seems to make it worse!

A: I can have the same problem sometimes. It seems to be related to air quality. If there is a lot of pollution in the air that day, or you are talking near a road, it can trigger an attack.

all I can tell you is to avoid emmisions and smoke as much as possible.

Q: can an asthma attack cause a heart attack?

A: Puppy Zwolle is right. A friend of mine died because no-one knew how to deal with her severe asthma attack, so she had a heart attack.

No, my friends heart failure was caused by a severe asthma attack brought on by an allergic reaction to animal hair. It wasn’t panic, it wasn’t psychosomatic. Not all asthma is hysterical. That’s just a trendy diagnosis by people who like to believe you don’t really get sick unless you secretly want to.
Her throat and lungs closed up. No one knew how to give CPR or a tracheotomy so she died of heart failure – her heart was pumping but not getting oxygenated blood, do you see?

Q: Can a Scary Movie cause and Asthma Attack?
i have asthma, i was watching scary movies all night alone, like disturbia and all zombie gore movies and stuff and i started hyperventalating A lot and towards the end of 28 weeks later i had to go grab my inhalor, is it just me being a wuss or is it common?

A: Common . anything the tightens your chest – scary movies, fear, smoking, anxiety

Q: Can asthma attack cause abortion?

A: YES IT CAN. I’ve been in the medical field for 17 years and spent quite a few years in pulmonary at the HEART CENTER MEDICAL GROUP. We had a lot of pregnant patients and their care was very critical due to the fact that it is very dangerous to a fetus if the mother has a prolonged asthma attack.

It should only be obvious what can harm you also has the potential to harm your baby. There is such a thing as pregnancy induced asthma and if not controlled it can harm the baby, ask any pulmonologist.

Q: asthma attack??
i have asthma and today i think i had an asthma attack and it is the first time it has happened to me(im 13)! i felt dizzy, was wheezing, had shortness of breath, and i could barley see. it happened after i ran 400 meters at pe and it lasted about 20mins and then i turned back to normal after resting at my school office. My friends said it could be dehydration since i barley drank water today. My Questions are Is this really an asthma attack? Wat causes it? Wat are the Signs/Symtoms of an asthma attack?
it was very hot

A: It could have been. It also could have been dehydration or heat exhaustion. Talk to a doctor if you are worried, especially if it happens again. Check out site below for more info.

Q: Can the smell of oranges cause an asthma attack????
It seems like every time i smell an orange i have an asthma attack, also whenever i drink orange juice i start vomitting but my allergist says my skin test says im not allergic what could it be?? please comment.

A: You could be allergic to oranges. The skin test is not very accurate for diagnosing food allergies. Your allergist can order a RAST to see if you are indeed allergic to oranges. Avoiding the orange fruit and juice is reasonable.

Q: Vasovagal Reaction cause an Asthma attack??
I am 44 yrs old. I went for a vitamin therapy IV today (my first). (Maybe like a Myer’s Therapy IV?) Only vitamins, b12, b6, vit c, magnesium and sterilized water, etc. I have mild/moderate asthma with no real problems the last few months. The DR put the IV in my hand, found it wasn’t working then put into the crook of my inner arm, no problems. It didn’t even hurt. I have 4 kids, so TONS of IVs the last several yrs. After 15-20 mins, I felt “funny”, faint and started coughing my asthmatic cough. I felt tight. He said it was a vasovagal reaction and discontinued the IV. Can that cause an asthma attack?? he said it did, but, I haven’t heard of that. Thanks!
Thank you, Dougie! I too, thought it was a problem with the compound. I read a bit, on a few sites, about how the magnesium in them can cause asthmatic reactions, too.. Again, thank you!

A: Hello CAT
A difficult question to answer when not there: I answer it for a couple of reasons.
Firstly, “Vasovagal attack or syndrome” is a very generic term usually referring to fainting or near fainting. It implies a slow heart rate; low blood pressure: sweating; and changes in “gut” activity: I have never witnessed an “asthmatic “component or “bronchospasm” as part of this fairly common response: People can have a bronchospasm response without having asthma.
Aside from why the choice was made to get these agents I.V., I would be VERY CONCERNED that this was a “histamine”, possibly allergic affect or a direct affect to one or more of the agents used, including any anesthetic used to start the IV.
Of course, an emotional response can trigger both vasovagal and asthmatic triggers: Asthma, is an inflammatory process and what you experienced sounds more like a “bronchospasm”, or acute response to something that happened to you; Bottom line: In consideration for your safety, it sounds un-soundly based to proceed with your therapy based upon the assumption offered to You. There are sooooo many potentials here, that would warrant inquiry to satisfy the guarantee of no further adverse effects.
BE CAUTIOUS !!!!!

Q: How do you cause an asthma attack? Please read below… I am not actually trying to do this?
How do you cause an asthma attack? Please read the details below before answering.?
I have to do a little talk for bio relating to asthma, and we’re graded on how interesting the presentation is, so I was going to do everything the opposite, like people would want to cause an asthma attack, like “what NOT to do,” and I want to include, “real life” info from you all who have asthma or have personal experience with it. I know that skipping meds, smoking, or exposing yourself to allergens would likely cause an asthma attack… what else? Are there things you all would have done differently to prevent asthma attacks thinking back on attacks you have had? (E.g. getting your inhaler sooner). Thanks!

A: It really depends. I have asthma and I find that cold weather and extremely polluted or smoky air cause me to have attacks.. Also very dry and dusty weather conditions. Also, lots of vigorous exercise without medication often causes them.
To prevent asthma attacks you need to take proper medication at the proper time. You will often have a reliever inhaler and a prevention inhaler (you get to look that up lol). You need to take your medication regularly and stay hydrated.

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