According to data from world health organization (WHO), currently the world's people with asthma reach about 100-150 million people. The amount is expected to continue to grow around 180 thousand people per year.
Most asthma suffered by children. The condition is potentially a major health problem in the future due to asthma can cause children to lose his schooling. It is known that 16% of asthma occur in children in Asia, 34% in Europe, and 40% in the United States.
Asthma is a chronic disease with one patient in the world. In Indonesia, although no exact numbers, an estimated 10% of the population suffer from asthma. Asthma itself is airway inflammatory disorder characterized by airway constriction. Complaint may be shortness of breath, wheezing, and coughing. Complaints often arise in the morning before dawn.
Asthma medication is there as a salve and the character as a controller. Salve will make the narrowed airways become open again. While the controller will make the airways narrow when there are not easy to trigger factors of asthma attacks. Most asthma medications safely and effectively is in the form of spray or inhaled because it directly into the respiratory tract, the effect was rapid, minimal side effects, and a small dose.
Asthma can be a hereditary disease. History of asthma is an important factor to diagnose someone suffering from asthma or not. However, there is no guarantee that if both parents have asthma, so their children would also suffer from asthma, and vice versa.
The important thing is what can cause a relapse of asthma is and that is to be avoided. These factors can differ between one person to another. Some people with asthma could be cured and some others do have to take drugs constantly. That depends on the heavy or light interference asthma, the state of a person's body, the environmental situation, and medication use. One of the important steps required in the treatment of asthma is a good knowledge of the patient and his family, especially to determine the types of asthma medicines and avoiding trigger factors of asthma so that treatment can be optimized.
