Asthma
Asthma is an inflammatory disease of the airways that affects breathing, causing sufferers to suffer severe coughing, chest tightness, sibyls and a number of symptoms that make it difficult for them to inhale the air normally. Therefore, possible complications and to slow to a flare, it is important to follow a rigorous treatment.
Increase public awareness that asthma can be very dangerous if not treated properly, is what the organizers have been proposed for the Second Week of Asthma. Under the motto “Breathing is life ‘, they want to see a person with asthma may develop a normal life provided that care.
More and more cases
the popular belief that asthma is a disease only makes many adult children do not follow appropriate treatment. However, this condition is chronic, so it is important to continue the medication for life, to a condition estimated to affect more than 5% of the adult Spanish population.
In addition, specialists are seeing more and more people suffering from this disease go to their queries. This is due to environmental changes. Following this, in July Ancochea, president of the Spanish Society of Pneumology and Thoracic Surgery (SEPAR), states that “the most polluted air we breathe, coupled with the lifestyle of the big cities and smoking” are the main reasons for those affected by asthma are increasing in number.