Bronchial asthma as a kind of a chronically relapsing illness, accompanying with dyspnea attacks or asthmatic status maintenance due to bronchi spasms, has become a real problem in polluted cities.

Different non-specific allergens provoke bronchi spasms: pollen (pollen of flowers, field grass, trees), dust (household dust, hair of cats, dogs, etc.), food (eggs, citrus fruits, fish, milk, etc.), drugs (aspirin, analgin, etc.), mechanical and chemical substances (metal, wood, silicate and cotton dust; vapors of acids and alkali; smoke), physical and meteorological factors (air temperature and humidity variation, fluctuation of barometric pressure, the Earth’s field, etc.), allergens of ticks, insects, or animals as well as various nervous and psychological effects.

Hereditary factors are no longer the main source of the illness. The roots of the bronchial asthma now chiefly lie in inborn or received defects of bronchi sensitiveness which are widely spread in urbanized megapolices.

Bronchial asthma treatment methods are based on the earliest termination of contacts with allergens. If allergen’s nature is known and it relates to home commodities (carpets, flowers, etc.), domestic animals (“cat’s asthma”, allergy to dog’s hair), food (eggs, milk, citrus fruits) or “professional” factors (furriers’ ursolic asthma), than elimination of the said contacts allows to completely get rid of bronchial asthma attacks. However, allergy on a pollen of flowers growing in the neighborhood, or allergy on specific substances suspended in the air (gas, smoke, specific odors) appears more frequently. To treat this kind of allergy, moving to another place (moving to another district of the city, another type of building (for instance, from a wood house to a brick house, or vice-versa) or another climate zone is only recommended. Given the fact that ordinary citizens typically have permanent address registration and their jobs are in the vicinity of the place they live in, people subjected to allergy decease can hardly follow this advice.

In these cases anti-allergenic drugs are typically ordered.

Since contacts of patients with allergy-initiating sources continue, patients have to continuously search for new anti-allergenic drugs: as a matter of fact, in the course of time people get used to drugs they consume and these drugs don’t help them any longer.

As a result, bronchial asthma soon passes into a chronic phase that can’t practically be treated.

So, at an early stage of allergy development it’s very important to break up your lifestyle and avoid further contacts with allergens for a month at least. It’s advised to take a vacation and go to a specialized sanatorium wherein physiotherapeutic treatment, namely, inhalation, electric current treatment or acupuncture, is practiced.

After passing such a treatment, allergy doesn’t return, even if patients restore contacts with allergens.

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