Suffering with nocturnal asthma? Nocturnal asthma occurs at night when you are sleeping.

You will get asthma attacks between midnight and early morning.

The pulmonary lung functions will be at lowest level in between these timings.

The reason is cortisol and epinephrine circulating blood levels, which protect you against asthma, will be at lowest levels.

Nocturnal asthma occurs due to your body’s circadian rhythms (Circadian Rhythm Disorders). If you have heartburn, lying down can make heartburn and asthma symptoms worse.

* Circadian rhythm refers to the inner body clock.
- Your circadian rhythm is in charge of coordinating your daily sleep-wake cycle.
- Your body in fact has hundreds of circadian rhythms.

The circadian rhythm operates on a 24-hour cycle.
- To set your circadian rhythm each day your brain relies on outside influences such as daylight.
- To set our internal body clocks our bodies depend on these external cues.

Our sleep and wake patterns, body temperature, hormones, performance, moods, digestion, and other bodily functions are all genetically programmed to take place at certain times. As a result, certain universal rules apply. For example, body temperature is at its highest at around 5 P.M. and then starts to drop.

* If you have asthma and heartburn, when you lie down after a large meal, stomach contents roll up the esophagus and into back of your throat. Then stomach acid in the esophagus irritates the nerves in the airway and triggers an asthma attack.

If you get nocturnal asthma regularly, it indicates that you have severe asthma condition. When you get nocturnal asthma, you will be awakening during the night. If you are awakened, your sleep will be disturbed and can result in daytime sleepiness.

Causes of nocturnal asthma!
One of the causes of nocturnal asthma is if a person works at night and sleeps during the day, he suffers more likely nocturnal asthma in daytime.

The other reason is melatonin, which enhances the allergic airway inflammation making nocturnal asthma attacks more likely.

The other causes of asthma at nighttime include pollen, dust mites, pet dander, and cockroach debris. Exposing to dust mites in the bedroom during nighttime is one of the main causes of nocturnal asthma.

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