Asthma is a lung disease where you're airways contract, bulge and produces excess mucus. This makes breathing challenging and sets off severe coughing. For many other people asthma is just an Irritation and for many others, it’s more serious and prevents them from doing daily tasks and can lead to life-threatening asthma attacks. Asthma can’t be cured, but the symptoms can be contained. The name asthma comes from the Greek word azien, meaning breathing struggles. Asthma was discovered by a Greek physician Hippocrates, the first case of asthma was found in China in 2400 BC.
Asthma is caused by many different things for instance, if you have a blood relative (parent or sibling) with asthma there is a chance you might have asthma due to genetics, many allergies cause you to have a higher chance of having asthma such as eczema and hay fever being overweight and smoking also increase your chances of getting asthma because of severe breathing problems and lung pollution even if you don’t smoke secondhand smoking where you inhale smoke because you are often near someone smoking can lead to lung pollution which is a factor of asthma. Many hairsprays and pesticides contain chemicals which if inhaled can fill the lungs with dangerous fumes and toxins and lead to asthma. Cold air is another major factor in asthma because the lungs bulge and contract harder in cold air and over 80% of people with asthma say that when they exercise in the cold air it leads to asthma attacks.
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The chest pain and difficulty breathing can lead to sleepless nights and severe coughing when you have a common cold or a flu virus and you also have asthma it is likely you will have more asthma attacks than