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When the respiratory air passage is blocked or becomes narrow, it results in breathing problem. This further grows in to continuous coughing, panting for breath or other such problems. These signs should not be mixed with the regular ones as they have a pattern of their own.
For example, coughing at the extremities of day/night, wheezing, quickness of breath, tiredness, mood swings, and blocked nose all put together are signs of asthma.
These problems can be categorized into three types of asthma namely extrinsic, intrinsic or mixed one. Extrinsic type of asthma usually occurs to younger ones due to inhalation of larger allergens like dust mites, pollens or other particles. They may show the signs of hay fever, eczema or skin rashes. Their immune system can be brought in control through the help of medicines.
Apart from allergies, anything that affect the breathing process, like stress, infection or other factors like cold air, exercises etc denotes intrinsic asthma. A mixed one is, as the name suggests, combination of intrinsic and extrinsic asthma. They can be caused due to some allergens or other factors. Often they can trigger mild attacks that may cause serious complications.
Apart from these types, there are other types of asthma that are named after their impacts. Childhood asthma, as the name suggests, occurs during childhood due to hormonal changes in the growing body. Their treatment is similar to an adult asthma. Adult asthma targets adults of age group of above 20, especially females. They can start at any stage or due to any factor like pollution, plastics, dust, especially at work places.
Bronchial asthma affects the breathing process, as muscles are wrapped around the air passage, especially during winter season. A small allergen may even cause wheezing problem. Seasonal asthma, as per their name, arrives and vanishes with an onset of a particular season. Silent asthma types attacks the patient silently, without any warning that may be severe, in extreme cases, life-threatening too.
Nocturnal asthma attacks the patients during the middle of the night by short breath, wheezing or presence of allergens at home. Their diagnosis usually takes a long time, since they are absent during day times, delaying their treatment. Occupational asthma types trigger at work place due to presence of pollutants. They are not harmful and have a very short life span.
Allergy of asthma may result from running nose, burning sensation and itchy eyes or even through cough/sneeze. Keeping oneself away from the particular allergens and having an inhaler nearby may be of tremendous help. Steroid resistant asthma occurs due to inhaling of glucococrticoids during its steroid therapy.
Apart from the all these, sports/exercise induce asthma signals, danger after some time performing exercise and cough variant asthma, as they are easily mixed with other conditions are hard to judge on time.
