Adult Asthma

While some people develop asthma as children, there is another group of individuals that are not diagnosed or do not appear to have asthma symptoms until they are adults. There is also a third group of adults that may be diagnosed with adult asthma, and those are individuals that had asthma as a child, then seemed to have no asthma over their teens and early adult years, and then start experiencing the symptoms when they reach their late forties or early fifties.
 
Occupational asthma occurs when the individual has been exposed to various chemicals or environmental factors over a long period of time. Usually the adult asthma occurs when a new chemical or allergen is introduced to the environment. The severe reaction can be very frightening; especially if the adult has not had any symptoms of adult asthma prior to the attack. Some of the most problematic triggers for occupational adult asthma are cleaning chemicals, vinyl processing compounds and chemicals, cottonseed products and products of petroleum manufacturing.

Usually, occupational asthma is not treated specifically, rather the individual simply changes jobs or moves to a different part of the manufacturing plant or facility.

 

Reoccurring Asthma

The reoccurring kind of adult asthma is often the most severe and most problematic to treat. This condition occurs when the asthma has appeared to clear up or ceases to be an issue for the adult, and then flairs up in middle to late life. Often these adults report that they did not have asthma as children, although they may report chronic coughing, colds or bronchitis. Most pulmonologists, doctors that specialize in respiratory problems, now believe that these adults really did have asthma as children; it was just not correctly diagnosed. 

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Chronic Asthma

Some individuals have had chronic breathing problems from childhood into adulthood. This type of adult asthma usually becomes worse as the individual ages due to constant irritation of the breathing passages throughout the individual's life. Scar tissue and general thickening of the tissues lining the respiratory passage naturally build up as adults age, and adult asthma increases the rate of this natural process. In addition it is natural for lung capacity and peak flow, or volume of air in and out of the lungs, to decrease. With decreased air flow there is an increase in the chances that even a mild to moderate asthma attack can cause increased difficulty in breathing. Medication strengths and combinations may need to change to reflect the natural aging process in many adults.

Adult asthma can be treated using the same medications as childhood asthma. Daily medications including corticosteriods and anti-inflammatory medications are usually prescribed in combination to control the daily symptoms and prevent or decrease the likelihood of an adult asthma attack.

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