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Q: Conventional asthma attack treatments?
Can you overcome an asthma attack without having to take an inhaler or breathing treatment? I’ve heard suggestions such as breathing control, drinking respiratory teas, pressing acupuncture spots? Is this true and how does it work?

A: It depends on the trigger of your asthma? Allergic or not. Remove the trigger and it can help. In regards to an asthma attack, now you need to have a rescue inhaler on hand to help open your airways. If it gets very severe, a neublizer is the the next step.

If your asthma is mild you can get away without taking a steroid, but if you start using Albuterol more than twice a week, you are not controlled.

Talk your doctor. Singular can be used. It is effective for about 30 percent of cases. Used much more for allergies.

But to answer your question. No teas will help. Acupuncturee is said to help. But no real hard core studies to prove one way or the other.

Right now, Conventional Treatment really is the only way to the diease.

Q: Treatment of an asthma attack?
My best friend had a severe asthma attack at school yesterday. It was a hot dry day, so we went to a computer room to try to cool her down. Her ventolin had little effect on her breathing, and at one stage she couldn’t get any air at all. She was starting to lose consciousness. After an hour and a half it started to go away. Teachers didn’t suggest an ambulance.

I feel useless whenever she has asthma attacks, I really want to be able to help her.

What can I do to help her at the beginning of an asthma attack, apart from getting help and making sure she has ventolin?

A: When your friend begins to have an attack you should make her calm down. have her in a position where it is easy to breathe, put her hands above her head, try to get her to breathe in through her nose and out through her mouth if possible, and keep a very calm, reassuring voice. Give her her medicine AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, asthma attacks can be life threatening. you need to make sure she stays calm. if she has had it as long as an hour and a half or goes unconscious you need to call 9-1-1. hope it helped!

Q: Asthma Attack…….?
I was having a bad asthma attack that was not responding to my inhaler, it was apparently empty, so I went to a doctor. But since I am away from home at school it was one I had never seen before. I went into the office and she said my blood pressure was normal my O2 stats were fine but my heart rate was very elevated. So she (a physicians assistant) had me breath into a paper bag? It only made me feel worse, Why in the world would they tell someone who could not breath to breath into a paper bag?? She just kept yelling at me to try and take deep breath and I felt like i couldn’t breath so how was i suppose to take deep breaths? Eventually she decided to give me a breathing treatment and it helped for a while but i am starting to feel a little tight again, is that normal. I had the treatment like 6-7 hours ago…. Thanks for any help people can give to me.

A: The purpose for breathing into a paper bag is to slow your breathing down. You must have been hyperventilating. It makes sense if you were having breathing difficulties. As a person gets anxious when unable to breathe deeply and oxygenate the blood they start to breathe shallow and rapidly. The paper bag is an old technique to get someone who is hyperventilating breathing more normally. I used to tell patients to concentrate on the bag and making it expand fully. Have you been using your inhaler as directed? Or because you have much on your mind at school are you not as diligent in keeping up on its use? If you continue to experience problems you should make an appointment with a doctor to see if your inhaler medication needs to be increased or changed.
Hope you feel better. Best of luck.

Q: what do you do if you are having an asthma attack and don’t have the proper medical treatment at hand?

A: Asthma attacks are taken seriously. An attack can quickly escalate to severe bronchospasms. You need to have an asthma action plan. If you don’t have a rescue inhaler on hand, you get yourself to an ER.

Q: How to calm yourself during an asthma attack?
I am coming down from a bad asthma attack an hour ago. I took my inhaler and tried to keep myself calm. Lst time I was this bad I panicked, took 3 nebulizer treatments and ended up calling an ambulence. This time I tried to talk myself down so I didn’t panic. I’m wondering what other people do while they are trying to calm themselves down and it feels so scary in those first 15-30 minutes until the lungs relax.

A: Try closing your eyes, focus on your breathing. I’ve had asthma forever, like 41 years, and it’s hard to calm yourself. Drinking hot coffee, take your bra off if your a girl, it will release a little more pressure.

Q: What to do during Asthma attack?
I have not been diagnosed with Asthma, but suspect it. I have severe allergies all my life and lately have been noticing some light wheezing at times when I breathe. I have no insurance so medical treatment is not optional at this time.

So my questions is, what does a person do if they have an attack? Are their medications you can get (inhalers) over the counter for an emergency? Anything else people do during attacks?

A: well i would first say go to a doctor, but since you don’t want to go due to insurance there are some ways to help when you feel an asthma attack coming on.
drink coffee, eat chocolate caffine is supposed to help. When i had a really bad asthma attack and didn’t have my inhaler they gave me pepsi and m&m’s.
I’m not sure if they give albuterol over the counter, but you can always ask the pharmacy or look it up.

Q: are nebulisers better than inhaylars for the treatment of asthma in children ?
can i ask my gp for oxygen at home for treating the asthma attacks and evening breathlessness ?
forgot to say he is 10 months old and was born at 27weeks
can i ask my gp for oxygen to treat the evening breathlessness ?
forgot to say the child is 10 months old and was born at 27 weeeks

A: nebulisers are only used when the inhaler’s don’t work on the patient when they are having a attack the GP wont give you the oxygen unless your child is very ill they might try a spacer for the inhaler’s or other method’s first before they even consider giving you the oxygen

Q: When to use asthma inhaler after steroids via nebulizer?
I was in the hospital this morning with an asthma attack and received steroid treatment through a face mask. It’s been about 12 hours since my treatment and I’m feeling a bit short of breath and wheezy. Should I take my rescue inhaler?

A: Yes.
If you were in the hospital, you should have been discharged on oral or inhaled steroids, and given instruction on this, as well as rescue inhaler use. You need to call your doctor or get in contact with a medical professional to discuss post-discharge treatment and develop an asthma action plan to prevent this from happening again.
You can take your rescue inhaler as often as every four hours.

Please call a doctor ASAP, and good luck!

Q: Asthma treatment making me HUNGRY??!!!!?
I wound up in the ER the other night from a combination of a chest cold and an asthma attack, now I have to toke up on albuterol in the nebulizer every 4 hours. In addition to the increased heart rate, I am freaking STARVING!! OMG I could eat everything in the house. I just ate my usual breakfast of Activia, a piece of whole grain toast, and 10 almonds, which usually does me fine until mid afternoon, but I feel like I’ve not eaten in days. Does the albuterol cause this?? I don’t seem to remember being this ravenous the last time I had to use it like this, but it’s been a few years.
They didn’t give me Prednisone this time, yah that always used to make me hungry. I did get a cortisone shot though, would that do it? Next time I’m going to tell them to give me a script for phentermine to go with it.

A: It doesn’t effect me that way. However when I have to take steroids for my asthma, it sure does. Did they give you (inject or orally) Prednisone? That can make you super hungry, mean, and the feeling of restlessness.

Q: Homeopathy treatment for Bronchiolitis (Infant asthma) of 2year old boy (second attack)?

A: theresa p has the right basic idea… it’s very possible that his immune system is a bit weaker than it should be.
However, you should NOT give an infant Colloidal Silver. Yes, it’s great for adults, but the dose is too great that it can be toxic for infants.

If you are looking for a Homeopathic remedy for this, you’ll want to bring your son to a Homeopathic doctor… they will not only give you the best remedy for him, but you’ll be sure of not needing to try several products from the store shelves if they aren’t exact what he needs. Also, most herbs and supplements are sold in adult doses, which are commonly way too big of a dose for children. Good luck!

Q: Has anyone had a asthma attack while swimming?
My wife was at swim training today she is a sever asthmatic anh had a huge attack and needed to do a breathing treatment on her nebulizer has anyone had this happen before???

A: Heavy chlorine can cause asthma. You should check with the pool manager to see if there is too much chlorine in that pool.
—Hmm, your name is Amy, and you have a wife? ;)

Q: Asthma treatment help!?
I am taking a Flexhaler Turbohaler by AstraZeneca for my asthma, and I was wondering something. Ok, so there is the bottom trigger that opens the dose. The mouthpiece is at the top. The mouthpiece lays on a twist able cap. What happens if I say, accidentally twists this cap? I did already, and for some reason the doses taste bitter, but this could just be because I have not taken the inhaler for a while. This is a corticosteroid which is used to prevent asthma attacks. Will this problem cause any adverse effects?

A: It was not possible for me to comprehend. All I can say is that follow the instructions and don’t experiment with it. There may be a risk of overdose or any other complication.

Q: Asthma attack while praticing rescue breathing?
Hi there my girlfriend is trying to learn how to do cpr and rescue breathing but she is a really bad asthmatic.
Every time she dose rescue breathing she has a really bad attack and needs to stop and do a breathing treatment on her nebulizer and almost ends up stopping breathing herself does anyone have any ideas how i can help her we have tried to use the nebulizer before she does it but it still doesnt really help her!!!

A: As few people have said she needs to have her asthma reassessed to make sure her medication regime is correct.

She maybe also reacting to the latex on the manikins, does her lips become red and inflamed after contact with the manikins?

I try to prevent my students from reacting to the latex by urging them to use a CPR mask or shield. I also ensure anyone with asthma to take their medication about 10-15 minutes prior to practicing and completing their CPR test.

Also if she was unable to ventilate someone she can do just External Cardiac Compressions (ECC), meaning she’d be pushing hard and fast which may affect her asthma.

Q: If you have asthma and u r having an asthma attack should u not go to sleep?
Earlier at school i had an asthma attack and i went to the clinic to go get my inhaler and it was empty and the nurse called my mom and she told me to go back to class and she would call me back down to the clinic when my mom got here with my new inhaler and so i went to class and my chest got even tighter and i put my head down on the desk and fell asleep and my teacher said she couldnt wake me up so she called the nurse to come get me and then i went home with my mom and got a breathing treatment. Could my asthma have caused me to not wake up?

A: in a way yes but i don’t know if ur asthma attack would have been that severe bec u wouldn’t have fallen asleep. see when u breathe in ur breathe in oxygen and let out carbon dioxide( CO2). too much CO2 can make u very sleepy and cause u to be confused and not know where u r. but i doubt it was that bad i think u were just a little tired from ur asthma attack. make sure u keep ur inhaler up to date. and if ur asthma attack is bad trust me u wouldn’t be able to sleep.

Q: I have asthma, took a nebulizer treatment four hours ago, but can’t stop shaking?
Last night (well early this morning) I had an asthma attack and had to go to the emergency room. After a few treatments of albuterol (and something else I can never remember the name of – I just know that most hospitals only give you about three doses) and prednisone the doctor gave me a shot of adrenaline.

I “cleared” and was able to go home, since I have a nebulizer at home and am (for the most part) able to control my asthma.

I took another treatment about four hours ago. Usually right after taking the albuterol my hands shake for a bit, but it usually stops. Right now it’s my entire body. I can’t stop shaking.

Is this because of the adrenaline shot? Or possibly because I’ve had so much medication in the last 18 hours?
All suggestions welcome. Thank you!
I already take advair, singulair, prednisone, flonase, qvar, allegra, and albuterol (I have a nebulizer, a portable nebulizer and an inhaler).

A: The shaking is either from the albuterol or the adrenaline, most likely from the former. Asthma results in both constriction and swelling of the bronchial tubes. The adrenaline and albuterol affect only the constriction. The prednisone should take care of the swelling, but its action is slower in onset.

The treatment you received in the ER was a temporary fix. You may need to alter your treatment regimen by taking a leukotriene inhibitor like Singulair and/or an inhaled steroid on a regular basis, or perhaps a long-acting bronchodilator. You should discuss such treatment with your personal physician.

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