Theme: Asthma

This forum is not so empty, my entry here views on asthma

I have learned over the course of study that I have allergic asthma (GINA 1, ie the lightest stage)

Even as a child was known that I have a house dust mite allergy.
I did as a child, especially at night coughing constantly and my parents almost driven to madness.
Somehow, however, no doctor came up with the idea that I might have asthma.
(A bronchial provocation test was done with me before!)

Many people are not aware that there are asthmatics that are not conspicuous by shortness of breath, but by permanent cough (so-called "Huster").

Today it happened to me yet from time to time (maybe once every 1-2 months) that I wake up in the middle of the night with a massive coughing fit.
But I have heard a mitlerweile inhaler with a betamimetic and cough shortly after.

So if you have a child or someone who knows the night coughs constantly, give the time a tip.

ps: Asthma is also part of my PhD thesis.
In my PhD work is about the long term behavior of exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO) in atopic children (children with allergic asthma).
FeNO is a marker of bronchial inflammation and is suitable for monitoring asthma therapy.

Have you ever gone through the whole allergy diagnosis?

So seen as though you're allergic to dust mites?

For coughs it is often a trigger that can resolve but fortunately relatively well with a house dust remediation.
Molds in the home could possibly be also a trigger for it.

If you have not done it yet, I would advise you to get tested at an allergist at you.

Greeting

Micha

With too many allergies can unfortunately do nothing.
The so-called "desensitization" (the body accustomed to the allergens and produces tolerance goes), I believe only when you have no more than 2-3 different allergens to which one is sensitive.

Do you have a long-term therapy if you cough every day?
Listening to the cough if you inhale a betamimetic (or something like Foradil Berotec)?