You may think that your skin is the only protection you have from the outside world. But you also have an internal "skin" that is in constant contact with your surrounding environment. Just think of your lungs. Every time you inhale oxygen, you suck in whatever pollutants and potential allergens are floating in the air surrounding you. I consider your lungs to be a part of your internal skin because they're barriers against toxic agents that assault your body. These barriers can be subject to the same inflammatory insults as your skin. Three distinct lung conditions all stem from inflammation: asthma, bronchitis and emphysema. Together they are known as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

Asthma attacks can be triggered by a number of offenders including pollen, molds, fur almost anything and can vary from person to person, but the lungs respond in a universal way. They overproduce a pro-inflammatory hormone called a leukotriene. As with bronchitis an inflammatory condition of the lungs and over production of leukotrienes.

These conditions are treated with the use of steroids, corticosteroids and anti-biotic's for secondary infections. (See article of the side affects of cortisone).

Treatment Options:
Respiratory conditions are always associated with inflammation. This condition is extremely difficult to eliminate conventionally and medicines only allow you to control the effects. As you cannot filter out all the foreign particles you breath, you can drastically reduce the molecular mechanism that is causing the inflammation - the over production of of leukotrines, which runs rampant when there are high levels of arachidonic acid present.

The key question to ask why is my immune system so sensitive to the allergens that I am breathing in. There are numerous things you can do to reduce the frequency of attacks if not stop it all together. The carryon effect will also be a reduction and total remission of the eczema