 Today I will be speaking about Allergic Asthma. Asthma affects millions of people worldwide, almost of all the age groups, right from small children to middle-aged and elderly people. So what happens in asthmatics? Mainly in asthma, there will be chronic inflammation of the airways that causes narrowing and causes excessive mucus production. What are the symptoms of asthma? They will be sneezing, cough with the expectation, wheezing, difficulty in breathing, especially on exertion and chest tightness. What are asthma triggers? First and foremost is tobacco smoking, both active and passive forms. Second is air pollution. Both indoor and outdoor air pollution. Next is your respiratory allergens. It can be your pets, housed as might. Then third, fourth is your fungal allergens, especially these fungal mouths which are found on the walls, especially in this poorly ventilated rooms. Fifth is your irritant strong smelling gases. For example, mosquito coils, perfumes, incense sticks, smells, etc. So how do we diagnose this asthma? It's very simple. We need to have your basic blood allergy levels, we need to get a chest x-ray done and we need to do your pulmonary function test. So once we get the reports of all this, we will have a basic investigations done and then we will move for the treatment. So how do we treat asthma? It's very simple. We will give you inhaler based on your results which are very safe and not at all habit forming as opposed to the common myth among the people. And the key to asthma control is to stick to your inhalers as prescribed by your physician. So if you have any of these symptoms, please get in touch with your pulmonologist because asthma is one such disease which is very much treatable and controllable. Hope you like the information that was shared about asthma. If you have any doubts regarding asthma or any respiratory diseases, please drop in your doubts and questions in the comment box. And also please follow this page for more such updates on healthcare. Thank you.