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World Asthma Day Awareness ( Press Conference) in Chennai
World Asthma Day Awareness ( Press Conference) in Chennai
World Asthma Day
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addressed by
Dr.R.Narasimhan,
Senior Pulmonologists, Apollo Hospitals, Chennai
&
Dr.R.Sridhar,
Medical superintendent at Govt.Tambaram Sanatorium Hospital, Stanley Medical College, Chennai
Do not stop using inhalers without consulting doctors. experts said at the press meet in connection with World Asthma Day (May2). Doctors also stressed the importance of pulmonary test for asthma patients.
Stretching on the importance of lung check-up, Dr.R. Narasimhan, Senior Pulmonologists, Apollo Hospitals highlighted that, “We should remember that asthma is a long-term disease that has no cure, but can be controlled well through inhalers. There are many patients who will stop taking their inhalers once they feel better. This can be dangerous and effect their breathing and doing daily chores will make them breathless. Patients should consult their doctor and the necessary tests to be taken to keep their lung healthy and fit.”
Spirometry measures airflow, by measuring how much air you exhale, and how quickly you exhale, spirometry can evaluate a broad range of lung diseases. Spirometry measures how well the lungs exhale. Whereas pulmonary function tests are a broad range of tests that
measure how well the lungs take in and exhale air and how efficiently they transfer oxygen into the blood. Lung volume measurement detects restrictive lung diseases.
Dr.R. Sridhar, Medical superintendent at Govt.Tambaram Sanatorium Hospital, Stanley Medical College further added, “It is important to understand the need to know your lung number and why inhalation therapy is the most effective therapy to control asthma and breathlessness. This World Asthma Day, we urge people who are asthmatic or feel breathless should get the spirometry test or pulmonary test, a first step to understand asthma symptoms. Myths associated with the treatment needs to be busted. Inhaled corticosteroids have been recognized and widely accepted as the mainstay of asthma management.”
The goal of asthma treatment is to control the disease. The most effective way to control asthma is through - Inhalation Therapy which is available in India at a price as low as INR 4 to INR 6 per day which means that a year’s supply of medicine is less than the cost of 1 night’s stay at the hospital.
The need of the hour for patient is to gain timely and authenticate information on correct symptoms, treatment and care tips. One such patient education website is www.breathefree.com which consists of easy to understand and doctor validated information on asthma, COPD and nasal allergy
