iS THERE A PERMANENT CURE FOR ASTHMA ???

Question

i'm 18 yrs old...and i've suffered from asthma since i was little...is there a permanent cure for it ?

Answer 1

No, unfortunately there is not a cure.
There have been great strides and successes in Asthma management and treatment.
Do you see a Family Medicine doctor to manage your asthma or are you followed by a Pulmonary Medicine Doctor who specializes in the treatment of asthma?
If you haven't seen a Pulmonologist in years, now might be a good time to see one. You may qualify for the new gene therapy treatment that is available and fairly successful in controlling and preventing "Asthma Flares"
Once you have seen a Pulmonologist, have them send the plan for treatment and management to your local Doctor so that they can continue the plan (and so you won't have to wait to be seen since it is sometimes difficult to see a pulmonologist frequently)
Here is the link to webmd.com concerning Asthma and treatments available:
http://www.webmd.com/asthma/default.htm
Webmd.com has a fairly comprehensive site concerning asthma and they have put it in "real people" language not "Medical talk".
Here is the link to the Xolair site (the gene therapy treatment for asthma)--knowledge is power!
http://www.xolair.com/index.jsp?search=zolair&ei=UTF-8&fr=ks-ans&ico-yahoo-search-value=http%3A%2F%2Frds.yahoo.com%2F_ylt%3DAuEaUFyLz0UqJfUCX6dreZkazKIX%3B_ylv%3D0%2FSIG%3D11i8pm7jm%2FEXP%3D1194034016%2F*-http%253A%2F%2Fsearch.yahoo.com%2Fsearch&ico-wikipedia-search-value=http%3A%2F%2Frds.yahoo.com%2F_ylt%3DAgdKuaxLJPD_QBHBRhg5.ZYazKIX%3B_ylv%3D0%2FSIG%3D121qf1j0o%2FEXP%3D1194034016%2F*-http%253A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSpecial%253aSearch&p=zolair

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Unfortunately, there is no cure for asthma (think about it, If there was, you probably wouldn't have asthma right now). It's a chronic disease. Symptoms occur as a result of inflammation of the airways. Generally, the symptoms arise as a result of an allergic trigger. The allergen is identified by dendritic cells in the lungs and carried through your lymphatic system and presented to B and T cells. T cells induce eosinophils to travel to the lungs, causing inflammation in late stage asthma (can occur several hours after initial symptoms. Symptoms are similar to early stage, but Short acting Beta 2 agonists may not be immediately effective). At the same time, the allergen is detected by IgE on mast cells within the lungs. The mast cells degranulate and release chemicals such as histamines which induce inflammation.

It seems as though asthma will be difficult to cure because of it's relation with the immune system. To prevent your lungs from having an inflammatory response to allergens, you would need to block an occurrence at an early stage of allergen introduction. This would be difficult to do, however, without significantly disrupting other immune responses. Targeting the release of chemicals later in the reaction (such as histamine) is much easier to do, but there are many chemicals released that induce asthma symptoms. Hopefully, there will be a cure someday.

Answer 4

I feel your pain. I've had asthma for 14 years now and have seen several doctors. The truth is, there is no known cure for asthma at the moment. But the symptoms can be prevented. It really depends on what causes your brother's asthma. Mine is usually dust and hot weather. But I think the universal method is using the control inhaler.

I cured my Asthma the natural way?

Answer 5

There is no cure for asthma. Everyone who has been diagnosed with asthma should have a rescue inhaler with them.

The best non medication treatment for asthma is learning your triggers and avoiding them.

If you are unable to avoid your triggers, you will need a perscripiton medication to help control symptoms.

Answer 6

I had asthma from 5-15, but it went away on its own. Not really a permenant cure for it though.

Answer 7

medicine and science haven't found a "cure" yet. I have it too. When I was little, it was bad. I seemed to outgrow most of it in my early teens. I played all kinds of sports, ran log distance
cross country etc. Later, in my late 20's it started acting up again. I was able to control it with proper meds. It got worse when I hit my late 40's, but I can still function, I just have to be more aware, and stay on my meds.

Answer 8

I have asthma and have had it for decades. You can only keep it under control with medications and lifestyle changes. Once you know what triggers it, you can avoid those situations and it isn't as bad as it was when you were younger.

Answer 9

Unfortunately no. They can only give medications to try to control the symptoms

Answer 10

I don't know if there is...But I didn't know they have a cure for asthma...