Asthma Attack

When a persons air passages becomes irritated or blocked due to any condition an asthma attack is initiated or trigger. However an asthma attack is not always initiatiated after an asthma trigger. Sometimes an asthma attack happen hours or even days after the trigger. There is no particular timing for an asthma attack and it can happen at any time of the day. Normally the duration of an attack is totally dependent on the amount of inflammation. The small and medium sized airways become inflamed and constricted as a result of which the whole air passage becomes blocked because the muscles on the outside of the air passage tightens up constricting the air flow.

Asthma attacks can be very dangerous at times. A person suffering from an asthma attack will not be able to maintain adequate nutrition and fluid levels in the body. oxygen levels in the body can also go dangerously low and the levels of carbon dioxide can rise which might even lead to the death of the individual.
 
What actually happens during a asthma is due to the fall out of a trigger. Exposure to a trigger leads to the production of a large number of substances which occurs normally in the body in a higher amount. Increased amounts of these substances contribute to the swelling and the narrowing of the air passages. One of such substances is leukotrienes. It has been found that leukotrienes has been one of the major reasons of air passage narrowing.

Symptoms of an Asthma Attack include
• Breathing with short interval space and combined with wheezing
• Sleeping problems due to shortness of breadth
• Simmering chest pain at regular intervals of time.
• Increased use of bronchodilators
• A steady decrease in peak follow rates of your heart.
Asthma should always be taken seriously as excess carbon dioxide. Without effective treatment during an attack, exhaustion may worsen respiratory function and in critical cases an asthma attack can lead to death also.