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How to Diagnose Asthma Disease ?

Important asthma diagnosis is the exact description of problem :

• What symptoms occur ?
• When did the symptoms occur ?
• Are there things or situations that trigger or aggravate the symptoms ?
• Do you have allergies or hay fever
• What are the psychosocial stress are available ?

On asthma suspicion, the doctor will examine and check your lung function. While the interception of the lung is a whistling or hissing sound on the exhale (wheeze and hum). The dynamics of respiration is measured by spirometry or Bodyplethysmografie and determine the gas content of the blood.

During bronchial asthma diagnosis investigation, the physician doctor examined using a small device (peak-flow meters) the highest flow velocity of the air during a forced exhalation. This device is also important for the self-measurement at home. An X-ray examination of the lungs is carried out in asthma diagnosis to rule out other diseases that also cause shortness of breath and Read more…

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Acute Bronchitis Symptoms and Diagnosis

Acute Bronchitis Typical Symptoms

Acute bronchitis symptoms is associated with the following complaints :
- Hypersensitivity of the respiratory system with frequently painful cough stimulus.
- Increased mucus production : For viral infection often associated with slight whitish mucous discharge in bacterial infections with a yellowish-greenish discharge.
- The inflammation is often associated with fever, fatigue, headache and general malaise.
Of chest pain are rare, usually only in connection with a violent, long-lasting cough or a simultaneous disease of the pleura.
- Lung “rattles” when breathing.

Other acute bronchitis symptoms like inflammatory swelling of the bronchial mucosa and increased mucus production can occur , the airways and cause embarrassment to increased cough and possibly a respiratory disability. It is also called spastic bronchitis or obstructive bronchitis.

When go to physician doctor to check symptoms of acute bronchitis ?

In acute bronchitis, you should consult with a physician necessarily following Read more…

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Pneumonia Symptoms, How to Diagnose Pneumonia

Pneumonia in the world can be individually expressed very differently, but pneumonia symptoms can be detected early. It depends on the general health and pathogens. Symptoms of a classical (bacterial) pneumonia are:
- Sudden chills,
- High fever,
- Cough and difficulty in breathing, chest pain with respiration if necessary,
- The cough is initially dry and after a while mucus is coughed up, the green, yellow, brown or rust-colored.

People with severe pneumonia, shortness of breath due to very fast (tachypnea) and strained. Lips and nails may be a sign of lack of oxygen bluish discoloration (cyanosis). Deep breathing or coughing, often prepares pain.

Pneumonia caused by viruses or parasites, most start slowly with mild fever without chills vibration frost. The cough is dry and there is hardly coughed up phlegm. This pneumonia is also known as atypical pneumonia. We can discuss about causes of atypical pneumonia and atypical pneumonia symptoms later. Other pneumonia symptoms, if different lung illnesses already exist such as  asthma or chronic bronchitis worse, they often through Read more…

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Different Bronchitis Types in Children

A common disease in children is acute, chronic or obstructive (asthma), inflammation of the bronchial mucosa, the bronchitis. The bronchi are bifurcation of the trachea in the lungs are lined with mucous membrane and have cartilaginous portions. Acute bronchitis can also be the forerunner of other infectious disease. Chicken pox, scarlet fever, whooping cough, measles, or begin as acute bronchitis.

Different Bronchitis Types in Children and Baby

Acute Bronchitis
There are different types of bronchitis. Acute bronchitis is a very common childhood disease in the offspring may even occur several times per year. It follows on from inflammation of the nose and throat area. In baby and child, acute bronchitis resolves after two weeks. Such an inflammation of the upper airways is usually caused by various pathogens :
* Viruses, including Respiratory Sinzytial (RS), adeno, coxsackie, influenza and parainfluenza viruses,
* Bacteria, e.g. Streptococci, pneumococci or Haemophilus influenzae,
* Mushrooms

Obstructive bronchitis (asthmatic bronchitis)
Acute bronchitis can develop into an obstructive bronchitis infants, if they narrow the airways. Above all, babies and young children are affected. The mucous membranes swell up Read more…

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