Though it has been claimed there is no cure for asthma, and many an asthmatic will dare not leave their homes without their inhalers, I, a former asthma victim aim to prove both mind-sets wrong and reveal why I stopped using asthma drugs.

Having suffered from asthma personally from the age of 5 to about 7 years ago, I can say first hand that I strongly think most asthma medications just may not be worth the use.

As with most conventional drugs, when one truly considers the side-effects that the drugs may have, it makes one wonder if they are even worth being prescribed and used both by the medical fraternity and vulnerable patients. For asthma treatment, this is no exception.

Let's analyze the number one asthma treatment drug: Ventolin. As an inhaler or oral medication, it is arguably the most prescribed from of medication for asthma control. However, studies have indicated that this drug might actually cause more harm than good in regards to asthma treatment.

Now symptoms of these side effects do vary from patient to patient as no 2 humans are alike, nonetheless here are some of the side effects as revealed by research.

1. Shaking, usually of the hands (tremor)

2. Nervous tension

3. Headache

4. Faster than normal heart beat (tachycardia)

5. Awareness of your heart beat (heart palpitations)

Medicines and their possible side effects can affect individual people in different ways. Because a side effect is stated here, it does not mean that all people using this medicine will experience that or any of these symptoms.

For more information about any other possible risks associated with this asthma treatment medicine, you can always look at what the drug manufacturers have indicated on the package itself.

At this point, it leaves the question of what alternative treatments of asthma can be used and are there any at all.

Indeed there are and although that's another subject into itself, what worked for me (and is in effect in the "Breath Retaining Program for Asthmatics" developed by the Russian, Dr. Buteyko) was a drastic change in my diet, some mild breathing exercises as akin to Yoga (I picked this physical culture up as a therapeutic means of building fitness after years of having to be indoors) and other common sense methods such as avoiding excessive cold, dust and the like. However, the last steps are more of preventive measures more than anything.

Breathing is the very essence of living; asthma need not be a barrier any longer in your existence and you need not use side-effect laden drugs at that to curb it. There are successful methods of treating your asthma out there.

Here's to free breathing…

Foras.

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