Diseases and their symptoms indicate that something is going wrong in the body and make us alert for cure. Cardiac Asthma is an asthmatic-type severe, shortness of breath especially at night caused by sudden and unexpected blockage of the blood circulation. Cardiac Asthma is not considered as true asthma; it is shortness of breath and wheezing but because of heart failure.
In cardiac asthma, the pumping efficiency of the heart goes to slow down and it causes the back pressure from the left part of the heart towards lungs. It is to be examined that there causes a sudden imbalance and disproportion between the work load and work capacity, in the left part of the heart.
Most of the symptoms of Cardiac asthma and bronchial asthma are alike or very similar. The major symptoms of cardiac asthma are shortness or squatness of breath with or without wheezing, a severe attack of dry cough, increase in blood-pressure, hasty and shallow breathing and a feeling of anxiety and uneasiness.
The pattern of breath during asthma attack helps doctors to determine the type of asthma and facilitates to give proper treatment.
Cardiac asthma can go to a critical and life-threatening situation, and you should immediately consult your doctor if you assume to have some symptoms of cardiac asthma.
Main reason for Cardiac asthma is that when left part of the heart cause imbalance between the work load and the work capacity of lungs and heart, the heart back pressure the blood from lungs causing spasm to the bronchial tubes.
Cardiac Asthma
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