{"id":924,"date":"2015-11-27T20:07:47","date_gmt":"2015-11-27T14:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/articles.1mg.com\/?p=924"},"modified":"2026-04-17T15:11:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T09:41:14","slug":"asthma-myths-swallowing-live-fish-cures-asthma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1mg.com\/articles\/asthma-myths-swallowing-live-fish-cures-asthma\/","title":{"rendered":"Asthma Myths: Swallowing Live Fish Cures Asthma!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1mg.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-176869\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1mg.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/7372.jpg\" alt=\"asthma myths\n\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1mg.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/7372.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.1mg.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/7372-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.1mg.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/7372-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.1mg.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/7372-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>BY DR. P.P. Gupta, Chest Specialist<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Myth: Asthma is an infectious disease<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Asthma is not an infectious disease.\u00a0 It does not spread from person to person. It occurs due to inflammation of the air passages that result in a temporary narrowing of the airways that carry oxygen to the lungs leading to asthma symptoms.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Myth: Asthma medicines are Habit-Forming<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Medications used to treat asthma are not addictive; however, because asthma is a chronic disease, long-term use of medicine is often needed to manage the condition and prevent asthma attacks. It&#8217;s important to follow your doctor&#8217;s recommendations for treatment, even when symptoms are well controlled.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Myth: Asthma medicine is only needed to stop an Attack<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>That depends. There are four categories of asthma: intermittent, mild persistent, moderate persistent and severe persistent. People who have mild, moderate or severe persistent asthma need a daily long-term controller medicine, usually an inhaled corticosteroid, to control inflammation and minimize asthma attacks.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Myth: Children with asthma will always get better with age<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Asthma is a chronic, treatable condition that develops in childhood. It&#8217;s no longer considered a disease that children outgrow.\u00a0 However, symptoms may improve during adolescence and adulthood.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Myth: Swallowing live fish can cure asthma <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>This is an unscientific and bizarre practice in many parts of the country where patients are made to gulp down the fish stuffed with a yellow herbal paste, in the hope it will help them breathe more easily. Not only is it unscientific but also unhygienic and baseless with no medical evidence of cure.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Myth: People with asthma shouldn&#8217;t exercise<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Exercise is as important for people with asthma as it is for anyone else. With care or pretreatment, people with asthma can exercise normally and often vigorously. 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