translated from Spanish: How deadly are asthma attacks and what can be done to prevent them

Tiernan was a 20-year-old boy practiced sport on a regular basis.
I loved the Gaelic football, but suffered from a strong asthma and is not cared.
In 2016, it had to be hospitalised and doctors told her that it was essential to take your medication. But it did not do so. Or at least not with the regularity that was.
The risk of asthma induced when you do a simple scarf high intensity how exercise can prevent attacks of asthma in winter in January of this year, entered the room of their parents in the middle of the morning. The air was missing. He was pale, with blue ears and lips. I was having an asthma attack and died hours later.
This is the story that tells her mother, Donna Green, for schools in Northern Ireland (United Kingdom) to educate children and adolescents that do not commit the same error as his son.
This Irish boy died with 20 years of an asthma attack. He had not taken drugs that more to your condition.
“It’s raise awareness that anyone who is the medication that have prescribed you […] you must take it”, he told BBC 5 Live.
Green tries to convince describing how were the final hours with his son’s life. When I saw that they drowned.
“Still haunts me the image of my son standing in front of me, looking in the mirror and hearing him say: ‘I’m going to die tonight'”.
Tiernan parents want to raise awareness among young people of the important thing is to take seriously their medication that have been online campaigns and in medical schools and institutes of Ireland of the Norte.Los they could do nothing to save the life of the young man and his mother of scubrio later that he had canceled appointments with the doctor and just took the medication that had been prescribed to him: an inhaler with corticosteroids.
“We will never know, but I am convinced Tiernan continue here with us if your medication correctly taken.”
Is asthma deadly?
Asthma has a low mortality rate compared with other chronic diseases but still 385.000 deaths (according to data from the World Health Organization of 2016) are produced annually by a disease which, despite having no cure, it is easily treatable.
This disease that narrows and swell the respiratory tract and that generates more mucus. This usually makes it difficult to breath, causes cough and even a whistling sound when breathing.
The World Health Organization estimates that worldwide there are 235 million people with asthma, the vast majority of children, since this is the most common non-transmissible chronic disease during childhood. But there are also people who develop it for the first time in adulthood.
Asthma is more common among children, but it can also occur among the adult population. It is in these cases in which mortality is highest, says who. Asthma affects people in developed and developing countries, but the deaths as a result of an asthma attack are more common in low-income or countries of medium low income, according to the who, due to the difficulty of preventing and treating the disease.
The exact causes of asthma are still unknown, but the main risk factors are the combination of a genetic predisposition and exposure to substances and inhaled particles that can cause an allergic reaction or irritate the respiratory tract.
Why is it so important to breathe and 5 simple exercises to do so correctly there are other triggers, such as cold air, strong emotions like fear or anger, or physical exercise.
There are some medications that can trigger asthma attacks, such as aspirin and other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory or drugs used in the treatment of hypertension, cardiac diseases, or migraine.
Symptoms and treatments to prevent asthma attacks that can trigger fatal consequences need to be aware of the symptoms and the treatments that exist.
The sensation of choking, shortness of breath, cough and even a whistle are more identifiable symptoms with asthma. According to the U.S. clinic may the most common signs of asthma are: pain or tightness in the chest.
Coughing or wheezing that gets worse with a respiratory virus, such as a cold or influenza.
Sleep problems caused by lack of air, cough or wheezing when breathing (especially common in children).
In addition, there are other signs that indicate us that asthma is getting worse. The symptoms become more frequent and annoying, shortness of breath is even greater and is needed more often than the quick-relief inhaler.
Asthma is an incurable disease but as who he highlights can be controlled with medication, avoiding your triggers, reducing its gravity and minimizing their mortality.
There are medications for relief of symptoms but also some in the long term to be taken every day to prevent asthma attacks. So, it is necessary to take the right medicine. The health public service British, NHS, ensures that the most frequent are inhalers to relieve symptoms at the time of an attack, and prevention which contain corticosteroids.
In some cases also steroid pills or ones that prevent the reception of leukotrienes are administered. Theophylline as appropriate may also be given.
WHO recalls that although asthma does not kill on the same scale as other chronic illnesses such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) can be deadly if the appropriate drugs are not used or the prescribed treatment is not fulfilled.
What is COPD, silent lung disease that kills 3 million people a year and has no cure Donna Green knew after the death of his son Tiernan had been making use only of an inhaler, the relief of symptoms, but not one that helped her to prevenirl OS.
Fatal night, symptoms had worsened so much that not even this helped you.

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