Asthma Healing

Asthma triggers are the things that can set off an asthma attack, such as allergens, environmental triggers for asthma, and stress-induced asthma. Understanding how to avoid asthma triggers can help you better manage your asthma.

Asthma Triggers – Comprehensive Overview
Identifying your asthma triggers is the first step in asthma control. Asthma triggers are the things that set off asthma symptoms. Once you know your triggers, you can work on avoiding them.
Outdoor Asthma Triggers
Outdoor asthma triggers are substances normally found outside that can set off asthma symptoms in sensitive people. Typical outdoor triggers include tree, grass, and weed pollen, mold spores, and certain extreme climate conditions. Let's take a closer look.
Top Indoor Allergic Asthma Triggers
There are many triggers for asthma and the most common are some of the same triggers that can cause allergies. These triggers can be found both indoors and outdoors.
Asthma Allergens
Asthma symptoms are set off—or triggered—by airborne substances that initiate changes in the airways of sensitive people that then make it hard to breathe. Most often, these triggers are allergic in nature.
Pollen – A Potent Seasonal Allergen & Asthma Trigger
Pollen is an airborne allergen known to trigger asthma and nasal allergies. This means that asthma symptoms may worsen when people who are also sensitive to pollen come in contact with it.
Ragweed Allergy & Asthma Trigger
Ragweed pollen is one of the most potent asthma triggers around. Find out what ragweed is, when it is blooming, what it looks like, and how to avoid it.
Dust Mites & Asthma
Dust mites and asthma is not a good combination. Dust is a potent asthma trigger in sensitive people. Find out more about dust and how to avoid having it set off your asthma symptoms.
Animal Dander – An Asthma Trigger
Animal dander is an asthma trigger for many people. Animal dander is the dead skin flakes that come off furry and feathered animals. It can trigger asthma symptoms.
Mold: Asthma Trigger x 2
Mold is both an indoor asthma trigger and an outdoor asthma trigger. Mold is also an allergen for people who have allergic asthma and can trigger asthma symptoms.
Insect Allergens: Indoor Asthma Trigger
Insect allergens are an indoor asthma trigger. Cockroaches are the most common type of insect allergen, but stinging insects such as bees and fire ants can also trigger asthma symptoms in some cases.
Asthma Irritants
Asthma irritants are airborne substances that when inhaled act as an asthma trigger. However, they differ from allergens in that they do not generate an immune response. Instead, they just further irritate already inflamed airways.
Chemical Asthma Triggers & Irritants
Chemical asthma triggers occur when someone with already inflamed airways from asthma is exposed to a chemical irritant that further irritates the airways.
Air Pollution as an Asthma Trigger
Air pollution is yet another asthma trigger. Air pollutants such as smoke, ground level ozone, vehicle exhaust, and others are known as irritants.
Tobacco Smoke - Irritant
Tobacco smoke is a powerful asthma trigger, whether you are the one doing the smoking or if you are just breathing in secondhand smoke from someone else's cigarette, cigar or pipe.
Airborne Asthma Triggers
Airborne asthma triggers are inhaled particles of dust, powders and so on that further irritate already inflamed asthma airways. They are sometimes known as irritants.
Exercise Induced Asthma: Facts About EIA
Exercise induced asthma is a fairly common type of asthma that occurs in both adults and children. With EIA, asthma symptoms are triggered by exercise. Learn the facts about exercise induced asthma.
Possible Asthma Triggers on the Job
Find out what you need to know about occupational asthma. Could your symptoms be caused by asthma triggers on the job?
Asthma Triggers - Quick Overview of Common Triggers
This overview of possible asthma triggers will help you figure out what might be setting off your asthma symptoms. Knowing what triggers your symptoms is the first step to preventing asthma attacks.