Treating Asthma by Drugs



Asthma is treated firstly, to remove or lessen its symptoms and agony, and secondly, to remove its cause as far as possible. It is better and desirable that both aspects be undertaken side by side. Let us first take the drug treatment of asthma.
As we have already seen, a patient of asthma during an attack has narrowing of the airways and excessive production of lung secretions. The narrowed airways make respiration and exchange of gases in the lungs difficult, so that the patient has less of the oxygen and more of carbon dioxide in his blood.


The excessive secretions can within a short while lead to infection in the lungs, as the secretions are the nutrients of the different kind of bacteria and they grow very fast on it.
Furthermore, since a patient having an attack of asthma breathes very fast, he loses lot of water in the air which he throws out, and
so loses a lot of water from his body.