Stress, Asthma, Allergies & Hay Fever

Asthma Review of psychosocial stress and asthma: an integrated biopsychosocial approach   Three recent trends in medical research have led both clinicians and investigators to reconsider the role of psychosocial stress in asthma. Firstly, efforts to define the aetiological risk factors for the development and expression of disease have intensified in the face of rising trends in the prevalence and severity of asthma observed worldwide.  Thus far, focus on traditional environmental risk factors has not fully explained these trends. Secondly, evidence evolved over the last two decades of important interactions among behavioural, neural, endocrine, and immune processes provides fresh insight into means by which psychosocial stressors may influence the development and expression of inflammatory diseases. Psychological aspects of asthma Asthma can be affected by stress, anxiety, sadness, and suggestion, as well as by environmental irritants or allergens, exercise, and infection. It also is

Stress and Asthma Why is  stress  an  asthma  trigger?  Stress  makes you more likely to react to your usual  asthma  triggers – like pets, pollen or colds and flu. It can trigger symptoms indirectly too. You may get angry more easily when you're under  stress , and anger is an emotional  asthma  trigger.