Asthma is a widespread disease, but through appropriate treatment it can affect its path, according to Erika von Motius, director of the Helmhlots Environmental Health Center in Munich in Germany and director of the Institute of Asthma and Allergy Prevention.
The expert explains that in this way, it is possible to ensure that the complaint in children and adults can be reduced as possible, noting that this disease is not curable.
This disease is being raised annually on the International Day of the asthma on the first Tuesday of May, which falls on the sixth day of May 2025.
Although it is reported that this disease is not curable, its path can change in the various stages of life, and even it can disappear on its own. In the following, we review an overview of its path:
Childhood
Most asthma cases occur in the first four years of life. “About 80% of new cases occur in the first years of life,” says von Motius, adding that asthma is a “very variable disease”, and it varies greatly from person to person, for example, depending on whether the person is suffering from other sensitivities, such as hay fever or types of food allergy, explaining that there are also risk factors that can lead to asthma, such as viral infection or exposure to smoking in the surrounding environment.
The expert said: “The goal of treatment is for children to live a normal life, including exercise. The drug can now be well adjusted so that children can withstand the pressure naturally,” the expert said.
The expert pointed out that the number of children with asthma was rising until the beginning of the new millennium, but it is now stable at a high level, and she said: “One of every 10 children suffers from asthma, and this is a large percentage.”
Adolescents
According to Motius, the good news is that there are good opportunities for the disappearance of the disease in children, explaining in contrast that the infection of asthma can be repeated during the period of puberty, especially at the boys, and she said: “But this depends on its intensity. We still do not understand that. “
Adults
Asthma usually appears in childhood, but there are also forms of asthma that develop only at the age of adulthood, as explained by Christian Topah, president of the German Association for Lung and respiratory diseases. “Asthma can arise at any time of life,” says Toubah.
Women during pregnancy
According to Toubah, the path of asthma varies during pregnancy, as symptoms are exacerbated in a third of women with asthma, while the condition remains stable in another third, and it may improve in the last third. Toubah, who also heads the Department of Lung Diseases at Essen University Hospital, stressed the importance of continuing pregnant women with asthma to use asthma sprays, and said: “It is extremely important not to stop using inhale.
Above the 50 -year -old
Toubah pointed out that it is important for people over the age of 50 years that asthma be diagnosed properly and differentiated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), for example. He said: “This age group may have dangerous paths of asthma, but regardless of this, people with a average age have a normal age.”
According to a statement by the German Federation of Pulmonary Clinics, “Although asthma is not healing yet, it is remedied in most cases.” Meanwhile, the union warned that if asthma is left without treatment, it is possible that the patient’s breathing course will be exposed to permanent damage with the continuation of the disease, and the statement stated: “In principle – regardless of how quickly the disease development is – the exacerbation of asthma seizures can be dangerous. Without appropriate treatment, it can even lead to death.”