Taking Control By Tracking Your Asthma

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Asthma is a serious lung disease effecting over 20 million people in

the US alone. An asthma attack is caused by a trigger, which can be

any external stimulant such as perfume, food, air pollution, cold

air, animals, dust, etc., which our bodies react to. Knowing what

your personal triggers are and avoiding them will help greatly to

prevent asthma attacks. However, what triggers an asthma attack in

some people may not even bother another asthma sufferer at all.

To make things more confusing, sometimes a trigger will cause a mild

reaction one day and then a severe one the next day. This could be

the result of being exposed to multiple triggers, for example one of

your known triggers could be pollen, but when combined with a few new

unknown triggers - fabric softener, detergent, perfume or a food

additive can hit very hard and trigger a major attack. On days when

you are feeling tired and haven't had enough sleep or are under

stress, you may also find that things which never seemed to bother

you previously now suddenly do.

As you see tracing them can be rather complex and requires a bit of

detective work to track down and eliminate or minimize these triggers

at home or at work. Keeping track of your asthma attacks by writing a

journal for a few days is a good way to start. First it's a good idea

to note how you were feeling the day you had an attack, if you were

tired or didn't sleep well, had a fight with your friend.

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