Asthma is commonly referred to as asthma. Asthma is considered a hereditary disease, usually present from childhood. Shortness of breath increases due to various allergic factors, such as - allergic food items, airborne allergens, viruses, bacteria fungi, etc. Difficulty in breathing due to such allergies is called asthma in the medical language. Along with this, people suffer from shortness of breath due to two other similar diseases called chronic bronchitis and emphysema. The main causes of these two diseases are smoking, working in a polluted environment, genetic predisposition, and frequent cold-like illness. Asthma, chronic bronchitis, and emphysema are lung diseases. These illnesses are always long-term illnesses that will manifest day by day. This is the continuation of these diseases. This results in long-term cough, shortness of breath and inflammation of the lungs, lung infection, and loss of performance. Over time, due to such illness, the heart is affected and the breathing problem increases and becomes very complicated, the patient suffers from breathing problems all the time, both the frequency and severity of the cough increase, and the patient becomes unable to perform work. In this condition, conventional treatment fails to alleviate the patient's symptoms. Heart disease is considered to be the leading cause of shortness of breath. Due to these diseases, the blood pressure in the lungs increases, blood flow stagnates in the lungs, more blood accumulates in the lungs and the air capacity of the lungs decreases, as a result, the patient suffers from acute and long-term shortness of breath and regular cough. In severe cases, fluid accumulates in the patient's lungs, making the condition more severe. Another major cause of shortness of breath is attributed to heart disease. Hypertensive heart disease, heart valve problems, ischemic heart disease (lack of blood supply to the heart), cardiomyopathy, anemic heart disease, and especially heart failure, etc. Other symptoms of heart disease include chest pain, palpitations, decreased physical ability, etc. Due to the two types mentioned above (asthma and heart disease), the level of breathing problems increases day by day. It is generally said that the swelling of the hands, feet, and face of the patient develops very quickly due to the right side of the heart being affected due to lung disease. Heart disease usually affects the left side of the patient's heart, but over time, both sides of the heart become affected. As a result of both types of diseases, the heart gets affected and progresses towards a similar outcome, which is called heart failure in medical terms. As the patient's disease progresses to heart failure, the patient's symptoms become such that it is often difficult to distinguish between the two conditions. In this case, treatment may be impossible without a specialist. The end result of both types of breathlessness is heart failure, so it is better to treat it according to the advice of a cardiologist.
