Asthma

Signs or Symptoms

Excessive coughing, wheezing, and difficulty breathing following exposure to an allergen or physical or mental stress.

Causes

In some people, asthma is an allergic reaction to substances commonly breathed in, such as animal dander, pollen, or dust mite and cockroach waste products. Some people have a genetic predisposition to react to certain allergens. In others, activities like physical exercise can induce the asthma symptoms.

Standard treatment

Corticosteroids can be inhaled to stop an attack. Desensitization may reduce the attacks if the offending agents can be identified.

AK Approach

As with the standard medical treatment, holistic methods to increase your production of specific hormones to increase your breathing capacity are tested for. Other deficiencies that can be easily altered cause the fluid that normally keeps the lung tissues separated to cause sticking of these tissues. Other organ systems can have an adverse effect on your breathing capacity. These include your digestive, immune, cardiac and respiratory systems. Testing is done to determine if there are ways to help up regulate the functioning of these systems and organs. . Special tests are done to determine what specific offending agents are upsetting you. Then treatment options ranging from avoidance to desensitization are employed. Spinal manipulation coupled with breathing exercises can dramatically increase your vital capacity, the amount of air you can breath in. Finally, a specific program for your needs is created.