What Is Asthma?

There is a wide variety of symptoms of asthma, their severity, and how often they are present. The most common features are a wheeze, a cough, difficulty in breathing (rapid and/or noisy breathing), tightness in the chest, and shortness of breath.

But what exactly is Asthma? A lot of people assume they know what it but very few understand the true meaning and how its actually caused.

Asthma is a disease of the airways or branches of the lung (bronchial tubes) that carry air in and out of the lungs Asthma causes the airways to narrow, the lining of the airways to swell, thus causing less air to travel to the lungs and therefore causing symptoms such as shortness of breath.

My later post will inform asthma sufferers with relief solutions and products. I am interested to hear from those who do suffer from this and how it affects you.