In this video, Prof. Nicola Dardes talks about bronchial asthma, explaining what it is and how to recognize it. On May 2, 2023, in a few days, the European Respiratory Society has declared World Bronchial Asthma Day. This is very important, because asthma is an extremely widespread disease. According to data from the World Health Organization, 43.5 million people in the world suffer from bronchial asthma. This is a chronic disease that mainly affects both children and adults. If you are watching this video, you or a loved one suffers from it. For this reason, it is very important to know bronchial asthma, understand what it is and consequently the first to recognize the disease must be the person who suffers from it. Now let's see together what asthma is and how to recognize it... If we give the definition shared by the scientific community on bronchial asthma, we must first say that it is a chronic inflammatory disease, which is characterized by the onset of bronchial obstruction. There are two aspects that emerge from this definition. The first is that a chronic inflammatory disease, which means that it is genetically determined and derives from the association of different genes, which together determine an alteration of the inflammation regulation mechanisms. In the video this step is explained in detail... The "expressions" of asthma are many. They start from the mildest forms, such as a simple sense of chest oppression, shortness of breath, move on to a dry and persistent cough, to then arrive at different degrees of intensity of shortness of breath. What are the symptoms of asthma? What are the symptoms that should make the doctor and the patient think that they are in the presence of asthma? If we start from the mildest condition, the patient has a feeling of "respiratory distress" (difficulty breathing) and tries to free his breathing, taking deep breaths. This is the simplest and least serious manifestation of asthma. Very often, however, an error of judgment is made and it is not diagnosed as asthma, but rather as a "Stress Syndrome". At a higher level of intensity of asthmatic symptoms, we have a cough. It is a non-"productive" cough, that is, not associated with the production of phlegm and not associated with the common causes of cough (viral and bacterial infections). Like all asthma symptoms, cough also has a peculiar characteristic: it occurs sporadically. Some patients have a cough mainly in the evening, others mainly in the morning, or in relation to the presence of environmental triggers (smoke or the smell of frying for example). Or another variant of cough is after physical effort (typical of children and young adults). Other manifestations of asthma are “air hunger”, people who get out of bed and have to open the window in search of air… What you find in this video is a real complete “handbook” on asthma. What it is, what are the different types of asthma, how to recognize it and what to do about it. Enjoy! To stay up to date and watch our videos CLICK HERE and SUBSCRIBE to our channel — / @nicoladardes If you want to book a consultation with Prof. Dardes call 06 86 356 953 or write to [email protected]