Examples are tobacco smoke, wood smoke, room deodorizers, pine odors, fresh paint, household cleaning products, cooking odors, workplace chemicals, perfumes and cosmetics, and outdoor air pollution. Respiratory infections, such as the common cold, the flu, or a sinus infection. Cold air or sudden changes in air temperature. You need to follow your written Asthma Management Plan to avoid or reduce being exposed to asthma triggers. The basis of asthma care was a class of drugs known as bronchodilators that fight airway constriction.
Inflammation causes the tissues that line the airways to swell and produce extra or thick mucus.
All this helps to prevent airway constriction. This new approach realizes that treating airway constriction, but not airway inflammation, is a lot like trying to stop a fire by putting out the flames, but not the hot coals. Throwing water on the flames may save the house, but until the hot coals are also put out, flames will keep flaring up. In some ways, peak flow meters can be compared to home smoke detectors. Both devices can warn of trouble early, while there is still time to prevent a disaster.