Dealing With Cough Variant Asthma

What comes to mind when you meet someone who has had a consistent cough for about 2 months? An easier answer than just a persistent flu would be hard to come by especially for those with minimal knowledge of the medical world. Ever heard of Cough Variant Asthma?

Well that would be the correct term for this kind of condition that is usually with very reserved signs. Shortness of breath, wheezing and sneezing is absent in this ailment, unlike in the normal asthma. Chronic Variant Asthma is mainly triggered by strong smells, moist air and dust.

Although there is no known cause of the ailment, it is more common in younger children already exposed to normal asthma. Allergies to blood pressure, migraine and palpation medication as well as aspirin allergies have been known to trigger it in adults with cases of jogging in cold air being a factor.

Since a physical or chest X-Ray test for cough variant asthma does not show any signs, a test where inhalation of methacolin is done. In cases where asthma is present the respiratory tract narrows and a bronchodilator is given to the patient to open the tract. An asthma inhaler with albuterol ipratropium and some anti-inflammatory agents can be used as treatment begins.

Cough Variant Asthma is an ailment that is gradual in responding to medication. It is therefore recommended that once you have began treatment for the same, patience should be a guiding factor, since the medication may take up to 6 weeks before visible results begin to show.

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Asthma - A Breath of Fresh Air

Research at the Johns Hopkins Medical Center casts serious doubts about the prevailing medical view of the cause of asthma and suggests an entirely new way of thinking about a disease that affects a growing number of people today, particularly children.

Until now, doctors assumed that asthmatics were hypersensitive to irritants like dust, pollen or pollutants. This hypersensitivity was thought to cause the airways in the lungs to contract, blocking the flow of air and leaving the patients gasping for breath. This lung airway constriction process was assumed to be absent in nonasthamatics.

But the new study strongly suggests that everyone is susceptible to asthmatic attacks and that the crucial difference between asthmatics and nonasthmatics lies in how well they can breathe after the initial assault on their system--specifically how efficiently they can take the deep breaths necessary to reinflate their lungs and clear the blocked airways.

Researchers used the inhalant drug metachlorine to deliberately constrict nonasthmatics airways. The subjects were then told NOT to breathe deeply. The nonasthamatics suddenly began to have breathing difficulties remarkably similar to those of asthmatics, said Dr. Alkis Tongias, the leader of the group conducting the study. This is just the reaction we would expect if asthma is caused by an impairment of muscle relaxation (in the lungs) triggered by deep breaths.

Dr. Marshall Plaut, chief of the allergic mechanism section at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, commented: These are somewhat unpredicted findings...if deep breathing has a critical effect on the way the lung relaxes, it is a mechanism that is not well understood and needs more study.

F. Matthias Alexander, the developer of the Alexander Technique, knew from his own experience a thing or two about gasping for breath, and how to overcome this problem. As early as 1903, he wrote: Imagine the folly of narrowing an air tube when desiring to force a larger volume of air through it: and yet this is exactly what occurs in ordinary breath-taking. When Alexander began teaching his method, he was known as the breathing man because he was able to help so many of his students regain the full use of their breathing mechanisms.

Could it be that asthmatics are particularly prone to constricting their nasal and throat passages when trying to take deep breaths? And could it be that this is caused by poor breathing habits, habits that may well have been learned in early childhood? If so, reeducation of the sort the Alexander Technique provides could make a huge difference in their lives.

A more complete account of the Johns Hopkins study can be found in an article titled Study Induces Asthma Symptoms, Pointing to a Failure to Relax by Warren Leary in the New York Times Health section, page B10, November 1, 1995. The quote from Alexander comes from an essay titles The Prevention and Cure of Consumption.

Robert Rickover is a teacher of the Alexander Technique living in Lincoln, Nebraska. He also teaches regularly in Toronto, Canada. Robert is the author of Fitness Without Stress - A Guide to the Alexander Technique and is the creator of The Complete Guide to the Alexander Technique at http://www.alexandertechnique.com.

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