Asthma is a form of COPD or Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. It is a respiratory condition that involves the inflammation of the air passages. The muscles that surround these air passages then become very tight, so the lining swells. This inflammation, swelling, and tightness cause less air to enter the lungs. Asthma is commonly triggered by irritants in the environment. Some irritants are dust, climate change, animal hair, fur, or dander, pollen, mold, chemicals, tobacco smoke, exercise, infections of the respiratory tract, and stress. Certain medications like NSAIDs (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs). A family history of allergies may also be one of the causes of asthma.

When you experience an asthma attack, it may be as short as a few minutes or as long as several days. If the passage of air is further aggravated, then a simple attack could be fatal. Symptoms of an asthma attack are productive or non-productive cough, intercostals retractions (skin between the ribs pulls), sudden and worsened wheezing, and shortness of breath. When you are at home, most of the time, you are dependent on inhalers and nebulizers for asthma attacks. What if you run out of any medical asthma relief? Here are some asthma attack home remedies that you could discuss with your doctor:

 

1. B6 and B12

These vitamins lessen the inflammation in your lungs and air passages. Food sources are turnip greens, tuna, mustard greens, cauliflower, spinach, garlic, crimini mushrooms, kale, broccoli, asparagus, chard, Brussels sprouts, cod, bell peppers, and collard greens.

 

 

 

2. Ascorbic acid

This vitamin strengthens your immune system. It helps your body fight off any infection or disease that may aggravate the asthmatic attack. This also allows you to treat inflammation naturally and increase the amount of oxygen in the body.

 

 

 

3. Caffeine and Ginko biloba

To dilate the bronchial passages, one of the effective asthma attack home remedies is caffeine. Ginko biloba lessens the frequency of the asthma attack. Both could just be purchased from your regular grocery or herbal store.

 

 

 

4. Fennel

Fennel is an effective means to get rid of the mucous from the lungs of the patient. You don’t need to cook the fennel. Just chew s raw fennel.

 

 

 

 

5. Juniper

Juniper’s essential oils could be used as an effective inhaler. Just use the diluted essential oil and not the undiluted one. Just a few drops will do but use a cloth and not your hands.

 

 

 

 

6. Other known asthma attack home remedies

Asthma attack home remedies are just very simple, passed on solutions, especially learned by homemakers. Here are some of them: rubbing camphor with mustard oil on the chest and back of the patient; a teaspoon of turmeric powder mixed with milk and honey; breathing honey vapors ease the breathing of the patient; caraway seeds placed in boiling water helps the patient when he or she inhaled the vapors produced; brew licorice the for ten minutes and drink it; heat radish, lemon juice , and honey for 20 minutes and take a teaspoon of this everyday; a gram each of black pepper and ginger powder are mixed with a teaspoon of honey or molasses.

 

 

Asthma could be aggravated and could result to complications such as very persistent cough, lasting changes in the person’s lungs, inadequate sleep, inability to participate with several activities such as exercise, the use of an inhaler  because of breathing troubles. Death is also a very grave complication.  You could either go to the emergency room or call your doctor if you experience worsening of the symptoms despite treatments taken, if the asthma attach does not improve with  medications, if shortness of breath occurs when you talk or rest, if your airflow is only 50 to 80 %, confusion, drowsiness, or if you have chest pain that is severe.

 

To prevent very frequent asthma attacks, you should keep everything allergy free in your home, vacuum regularly, vacuum a few times a day, use cleaning materials that are not scented, keep animals away from the patient or the area of the house frequented by the patient, and eliminate smoking.

 

Learning how to prepare asthma attack home remedies could really help with how fast you could get relieved of the asthma attack symptoms. By knowing some of these asthma attack home remedies, you could temporarily help a loved one or yourself when trying asthmatic episodes ensue. Talk with your doctor about the effectivity of these given methods. Perhaps you could consider the most effective methods that are the easiest ones to prepare so that when an attack happens, you could administer the solution immediately.