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| Nocturnal Asthma | Airway cooling from a drop in body temperature, decrease effect of medicines during early morning hours and chronic sinus problems can also cause asthma at nighttime.
Symptoms at nighttime will be common if you have daytime asthma. It can occur once in a while or more often during the week. If you have nocturnal asthma, your airways consist of more number of eosinophils compared with people who have asthma during daytime.
When your doctor understands about the causes of nocturnal asthma, he or she can prescribe medications based on your condition.
It is impossible to completely prevent nocturnal asthma. Proper treatment and right medicines can reduce the symptoms.
Nocturnal asthma prevention methods:
• Make your bedroom free of allergens. Clean your bedroom by removing dust and carpets. Mattresses and pillows should be covered with allergy-proof covers.
• Keep your pets out of bedroom as the pet dander stick to the bed sheets and when you go to sleep, the dander can cause allergy and asthma.
• Use humidifier in the house to keep the air warm and moist. The humidifier helps in maintaining the body temperature normal and avoids falling too low.
• Wash the bed sheets and covers every week in hot water which you are using on the bed.
• If you are having nocturnal asthma, you should talk to the health care professional about taking care of heartburn and GERD (Know more about GERD).
• During daytime, cover the entire bed with a bed sheet and at night, remove the covered bed sheet and keep it in another room.
Following the above simple steps can prevent nocturnal asthma attacks.
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