Allergy Asthma Treatment

We’ll follow the last article on Asthma and Pesticides, with a look at adult asthma, or how allergy asthma can affect us in adulthood.

Allergy asthma is often regarded of as a childhood condition. However, allergy asthma can affect you at any age in your life and can change over time.

Maybe you have just discovered you have allergy asthma later on in life, or perhaps you are thinking about starting a family and are concerned how adult asthma may affect you.

Allergy asthma is often regarded as a condition you get when you are a child and for many people, allergy asthma does start in childhood. However, some people can be diagnosed with allergy asthma for the first time later on in their life. This is commonly known as ‘adult onset asthma’.

In older people, the debilitating symptoms of allergy asthma are less likely to be triggered by allergies such as house dust mites, pets and some pollens.

Allergy asthma symptoms in adults are more likely to be triggered by:

• flu, colds or other viral infections
• certain forms of exercise
• laughing or getting highly excited
• depression or anxiety
• some prescribed medicines
• certain irritants such as tobacco smoke, cold air, perfumes and chemical fumes

For older people who contract allergy asthma, a shortness of breath may be the only symptom they notice. It can be difficult to discern allergy asthma from other conditions that cause similar symptoms, such as bronchitis, emphysema, heart disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). For this reason it is sometimes more difficult to diagnose asthma in older adults.Allergy Asthma