Dr. Javier Hiriart, Pediatrician at Family Medicine Center at West Kendall Baptist Hospital explains with a bio digital imaging how the asthma development occurs. Catching a cold, cold air or a perfume, for example, starts to change natural breathe process, because the patient gets the trigger for smooth muscle in the airways to kind of…...

Coughing, especially at night; wheezing; shortness of breath; and chest tightness, pain or pressure are some symptoms of asthma. Dr. Mario Zambrano, Pediatric Emergency Medicine Physician with Homestead Hospital, explains asthma is different from croup, which is when you have a stridor breathing in, versus trouble breathing out when you have asthma...

Dr. Mario Zambrano, Pediatric Emergency Medicine Physician with Homestead Hospital, says asthma will go away when your body has adjusted to the environment and learned how to deal with allergies and allergens. "If you don't follow your doctor's advice, if you don't listen to the cues, asthma can become adult asthma." Some benefits of good…...

Air pollutants, family history and allergic tendencies are the main factors that can trigger asthma on a child, explains Dr. Javier Hiriart, Pediatrician at Family Medicine Center at West Kendall Baptist Hospital, who agrees that asthma affects one in twelve children ages 0 to 17 in the United States. Coughing, wheezing, shortness of breath, chest…...

Dr. Raul Valor, Pulmonologist with Baptist Health South Florida, says the majority of the diagnosis of asthma is done on clinical grounds, and the history of the patient is probably the single most important factor. He points out patients will report wheezing at night and they are awakened in the middle of the night by…...

Dr. Raul Valor, Pulmonologist with Baptist Health South Florida, says the most important treatment for asthma is inhaled steroids, because they keep asthma under control and they are probably the mainstay of treatment. He also explains there are long-acting bronchodilators, which are similar to the rescue inhaler, but have a longer duration (between 12 and…...

Dr. Rodney Benjamin, Critical Care and Pulmonary Medicine Physician with South Miami Hospital, says refractory asthma is undertreated, because there are new treatments that are still getting traction. He also explains not everybody that wheezes has asthma: "You can wheeze because you're in heart failure; obesity can cause wheezing because of low lung volumes from…...

Dr. Raul Valor, Pulmonologist with Baptist Health South Florida, says when people have asthma, there is a constant inflammation in the airways. He explains it is always there and requires active treatment in order to keep the disease under control. He points out that part of the disease is excessive mucus production. Asthma affects the…...