Misconceptions about asthma management

1, asthma can not be cured, treatment is useless: asthma is a more stubborn inflammatory diseases of the respiratory system, delayed and difficult to cure, patients and their families often produce negative emotions, lose confidence in the cure, and even produce despair. In fact, although asthma is difficult to cure asthma, but through correct and effective treatment, can make the patient’s symptoms disappear, to avoid an acute asthma attack or the development of emphysema, pulmonary heart disease, can make the patient like a healthy person as normal life and work. 2, treatment only when the attack: asthma is a chronic airway inflammation, whether it is an attack or remission, this inflammation exists for a long time. As a chronic disease, the treatment of asthma is a long-term process, including not only rapid symptomatic relief in the attack period, but also in the stabilization period of maintenance therapy. Stabilization treatment is a key component of long-term management of asthma patients, which can significantly reduce the number of acute asthma attacks, protect lung function, and help improve the quality of life of patients. 3, blind use of antibacterial drugs: asthma attacks can be caused by many reasons, including allergies, fatigue, emotional stress, viral or bacterial infections. Antibacterials are only needed when the patient has an asthma attack with fever, coughing up thick sputum, or elevated white blood cells, and when there is clinical evidence of bacterial infection. Inappropriate use of antibacterial drugs not only can not control asthma symptoms, but also easy to cause bacterial resistance. 4, refused to accept hormone therapy: some patients are worried about hormone side effects and refused to accept glucocorticoid therapy. In fact, glucocorticosteroids are available in intravenous, oral and inhalation dosage forms, and most patients can control their symptoms with inhaled glucocorticosteroids. Inhalation therapy is a local drug, small dose, direct action on the target organ, fast onset of action, less systemic adverse effects, is the first choice for the treatment of chronic persistent asthma. 5, for triggers can not be avoided in a timely manner: some patients can do standardize the use of drugs, but still poor control, analyze the reason is to find that the patient long-term exposure to asthma-inducing environment, such as painters. Only focus on drug therapy but neglected to get rid of allergens, which often makes the drug treatment half the effort. 6, combined diseases do not pay attention to active treatment: some asthma patients combined with rhinitis, gastroesophageal reflux disease and other comorbidities but do not go to active treatment.