TREATMENT+Asthma+Jemmy

===|| HOME || CAUSE || EFFECTS || TREATMENT || PREVENTION || Theodore Roosevelt || QUIZ || NOTES || MLA ||=== =Treatment: = ====Asthma is a chronic disease, once you get it, you have it forever. Currently, there is no cure for asthma itself, but there are ways to assuage and prevent asthma attacks. There are two ways you can do this, you can take **quick relief medicines** or **long-term control medications**.====

====**Quick relief medication** soothe and control the symptoms of an asthma attack. One of such medicines are bronchodilators, they relax your airways and allow you to breathe. These drugs imedietly take effect, hence their name. This medicine is usually delivered by an inhaler, as shown below====



====**Long-term control medicines** help make the airways less sensitive and less likely to start a reaction. They do not immediate relieve asthma symptoms however. These medicenes are usually taken daily.====