About Inflammatory Triggers | About Symptom Triggers
Triggers often bring on asthma attacks. A trigger is any thing or condition that causes inflammation in the airways, which then leads to asthma symptoms.
Your personal triggers can be very different from those of another person with asthma. But in every case, it's important to avoid your triggers in order to keep airway inflammation to a minimum and reduce the symptoms.
Inflammatory (allergic) triggers can cause inflammation of the lungs' airways or tightening of the airways' muscles. Inflammatory triggers include:
Symptom (non-allergic) triggers generally do not cause inflammation, but they can provoke "twitchy" airways, especially if they're already inflamed. Symptom triggers include:
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