What is asthma all about? Can asthma be “rooted out”?

  Asthma is a common respiratory disease, known as bronchial asthma. Asthma is an episodic disease with symptoms such as wheezing, shortness of breath, chest tightness or coughing, and can often be heard as the patient breathes with a sound similar to “whistling or playing a flute”, with various symptoms often occurring and intensifying at night or early in the morning. Most of the patients can be relieved on their own or with treatment. After the symptoms are relieved, they are like “good people” with no obvious discomfort.  Can asthma be “eradicated”?  This is a question that almost all asthma patients ask.  Asthma is a chronic disease that has a significant impact on patients, their families and society. Airway inflammation is the essence of asthma and is the basis of the clinical symptoms. Airway inflammation is present in all stages of asthma and there is no cure for airway inflammation, which means that asthma is not yet curable.  Although there is no cure for asthma, proper treatment can bring asthma under good control. When the inflammation is controlled, patients rarely have symptoms and severe asthma attacks are even less common, and patients will live and work like non-asthma patients of the same age. If asthma patients are not treated regularly and symptoms recur, not only does it affect the quality of life, but more importantly, recurrent attacks can lead to serious complications that can endanger the patient’s life. Therefore, it is important to receive formal, scientific evaluation and treatment when you have asthma.