Feb 17

Controlling an Asthma Attack

Asthma Control – Three Tips For Controlling an Asthma Attack
By Tom Shephard

I use to have asthma and I can tell you from first hand experience that having an attack is probably one of the most frightening things that a kid or adult can ever have. It’s the feeling of suffocating without having anything over your face. You can’t grab at the object in front of you, and you can’t seem to get control of the lungs in your body. Here are three tips for you to use when you are getting an attack to help you get through each one of them easier, and without as much panic.

Three Tips of Asthma Control: Getting a Handle On An Attack

When you’re having an attack, the last thing you are wanting to do is go through a list of things that should be done in order to comfort your mind while you suffocate. Here are just three very easy exercises that you can do in the instance of an attack.

1. Coffee

If you can feel an attack starting, try brewing a cup of coffee and drinking it. This will open your lungs up, and help stave off any of the potential heaves or difficult breathing that you might have. This is not something to do during an attack unless you are under control enough to breathe semi-regularly.

2. Calm Down

Your lungs are physically closed and inflamed, but the mind can play tricks on you and make it seem worse than it is. When you panic, your heart rate rises, and your body registers it as needing more oxygen. As this happens, you’re going to want to breathe even more! Your lungs will FEEL (although, may not be any) more constricted than before. So it is very important that you just calm down, and take deep breaths.

3. Breathe Through Your Nose

In conjunction with number 2, breathe through you nose. This will help you slow your breathing down, and control your fear. Try and breathe as deeply as you can, and then release. This will allow you to open up the inflamed lung passages and will help you keep cool through the attack until medicine, or other help can be administered.

Growing up, I had asthma, and bad. It began to rule my life! I couldn’t run, I couldn’t swim, I couldn’t do anything that I wanted!

If you’re in the same boat I was, or feel like you could be getting to that point, you need to go to my Asthma Control blog.

There, I teach you methods, tips, and tricks to help you control your asthma so that you can go out, and take on the world in the way you were meant to: freely.

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