Triggers Vs Causes Of Asthma

For asthma patients the day-to-day management of the disease
becomes an important part of everyday life Controlling asthma
means paying careful attention to the causes and triggers of the
asthma
The ” trigger factors “, or ” triggers “, of asthma are used to
describe the things that can cause an attack in someone who
already has asthma
It is something that sets off an attack, but which does not make
a patient asthmatic in the first place
A ” cause” is something without which an effect (such as asthma)
will not happen
That is, a cause is something without which the patient would
not be asthmatic There may be more than one cause for an asthma
attack
However, there is a lot of confusion surrounding these terms
If a patient has an allergy to cats, dogs, pollen, mould in
wallpaper or house dust mites that cause asthma many describe
them as “triggering an attack”
By demoting causes, by calling them triggers, makes people think
they are not so important, and that maybe they should just keep
using their inhalers instead of making efforts to root out the
causes of their asthma and remove these from their environment
For example, if you don’t have asthma, or your asthma is well
controlled, then a cold will not give you any of the symptoms of
asthma
So in this sense, it is fair to call the cold a ” trigger factor
” for asthmatics
But if an asthmatic has an attack whenever they go near dogs,
when dogs have been the cause of asthma (for instance; the
reason they have asthma is because of dogs) , going near a dog
can trigger an attack
In other words, a dog can be a cause of asthma ‘and’ also a
trigger of an attack
Concentrating only on the triggering of the attacks misses the
really important point that contact with dogs was a cause of the
asthma in the first place
Asthma sufferers will want to avoid both causes and triggers of
asthma, but the causes are more serious nature If there was no
cause and the asthma didn’t exist, the triggers would do
absolutely no harm
Asthma – triggers vs causes
* When talking about diseases, it is important to distinguish
between causes and triggers
* A trigger for asthma is something which sets off an attack,
but which does not make you asthmatic in the first place
* A cause is something without which an effect (such as asthma)
would not be happening That is, a cause is something without
which you would not be asthmatic

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