Ladies Hormones Make Asthma Worse! What Can Be Done?

When you’re deciding how severe a chronic condition is you need to look at two factors. One is just how much you’re going to have to do to keep it under control and maintain your way of living and the other is just which of our body’s many systems and functions is it going to effect. Some of the nastiest chronic conditions which require the most effort to counter actually only cause damage to systems which aren’t necessary to our survival on the whole, there’s nothing pleasant about them but they’re not going to kill. Others are well known and well understood but effect a crucial bodily system and as such can be fatal and life-destroying while being so well known they lost almost all fear and notoriety.

Asthma is one of the second kinds of condition. It’s well known, relatively well understood and it can be managed with relative simplicity compared to some other chronic conditions. By affecting the respiratory system however, it becomes very dangerous and shouldn’t ever be underestimated or considered frivolous.

In a recent study by researchers in Norway it was shown that the hormonal fluctuations caused by a woman’s menstrual cycle may have a negative impact on her asthma. It was shown that, around the time of ovulation, a lot of ladies would struggle much more with their condition as was usual and even some women who generally wouldn’t suffer from any respiratory conditions could suddenly find that they had some slight issues in breathing.

Doctors are suggesting that this knowledge will allow them to prescribe women with treatments for their asthma which better suit the time of the months in which they’re treating. They’d be given more potent remedies during their period and less potent ones throughout the rest of the month, the idea being that doing this would allow their asthma to be easier to treat and thus improve their standard of living.