How To Treat Asthma

Seeing someone having an asthma attack can be highly frightening. This article will help you understand how to treat asthma and how to deal with it when you find someone suffering from the disease. People who suffer from the disease might be unable to call or answer you because of wheezing.

Make them to sit down regardless of the response. Making the sufferer sit in a "tripod" position is the best sitting position by placing their hands on their knees or legs and sitting by leaning forward, forming a tripod.

The tripod position is highly recommended as it helps in relieving the pressure on the diaphragm and permits increased lung expansion since people may experience difficulty in breathing in other positions and may even collapse or struggle for air to be inhaled into their lungs to breathe. You can also determine the severity of the asthma attack by getting them to answer. People who can talk in complete sentences during the attack gives the indication of not suffering from sever difficulty in breathing.

Making them sit down than standing and lying them down are recommended as laying down and standing can exert pressure on their lungs. Make them sit down, but be ready to support them if they collapse. For people who have already collapsed, make them to sit them up and support them. Help them with their inhaler as asthmatic patients will be always provided with an L shaped inhaler, generally blue, gray, brown or red in color.

You should help them in administering medication unless you are qualified to mediate. Dont try administering the inhaler yourself, but give them the inhaler to inhale themselves. Inhalers are required to be timed lest you may choke when trying yourself. Therefore, it will be good to let them handle it themselves. Never interfere with the puffs they take. Let the patient do whatever he wishes to sustain breathing.

As inhaler almost works quickly, you should wait for the recovery. After the breathing gets normal, you can make him relax and an ambulance. An EMS provider can help treat the decline of oxygen level in the patients body as it provides them with high flow of high concentrated oxygen. They should be given adequate medical treatment.