如果你曾呼吸短促或胸悶,那可能是因爲...

Asthma is a comMon condition which affects about 5 million people in the UK. It causes sensitivity to the airways, which can lead to difficulty in breathing, but with a good asthma action plan it can be well controlled.

哮喘是一種常見疾病，500萬英國人正遭受哮喘的折磨。哮喘會導致氣道敏感，從而導致呼吸困難，但制定良好的哮喘行動方案則有助於控制哮喘。

The Daily Mirror has teamed up with LloydsPharmacy for its Need-to-know health campaign which aims to make patients more aware of a range of conditions that can be treated with the help of their local pharmacist - and to make the pharmacy their first point of call.

《每日鏡報》與LloydsPharmacy合作開展了Need-to-know健康活動，旨在使病人更瞭解在當地藥劑師的幫助下可以治療的一系列疾病--使藥房成爲他們的首選之地。

Here, Mirror health correspondent Martin Bagot talks to LloydsPharmacy pharmacist Anshu Bhimbat to discuss asthma's symptoms, how to manage the condition and the mistakes people living with asthma often make.

在此，Mirror的健康記者馬汀·巴戈特和LloydsPharmacy的藥劑師Anshu Bhimbat展開了對話，談論哮喘症的症狀、如何管理病情，以及哮喘患者常犯的幾個錯誤。

How does asthma impact on people's lives day to day?

哮喘如何影響人們的日常生活？

Asthma is chronic inflammation of the airways - symptoms will include shortness of breath, a tight chest, and general uneasiness linked to the respiratory system. The symptoms can persist during the day and that can interrupt your work pattern and if a child is living with asthma and at school it can cause an interruption to that too.

哮喘是氣道的慢性炎症--症狀包括呼吸短促、胸悶、與呼吸系統相關的不適。這些症狀可能在白天持續存在，可能會打斷你的工作模式，如果小孩子患有哮喘，那也有可能中斷上學。

It's really important to consider the symptoms. If these are recurring so it is interrupting your day to day life, then it could be a reflection of poor asthma control and therefore we would need to investigate that further.

考慮這些症狀非常重要。如果症狀反覆出現，那麼就會打擾你的日常生活，而這可能是哮喘控制不佳的反映，因此我們需要進一步調查。

What are the common mistakes which people make in dealing with and treating asthma?

治療哮喘病時，人們經常犯哪些錯誤？

There are a number of common mistakes that we do find when we review patients' medication. The main one is inhaler technique. Obviously, patients living with asthma do get prescribed inhalers and it's important to take your inhaler correctly so we would sit down with a patient and go through their inhaler technique.

當我們檢查患者的藥物時，我們的確會發現一些常見的錯誤。其中主要的錯誤是吸入器使用技術。顯然，哮喘患者確實買了處方吸入器，但正確使用吸入器也十分重要，所以我們會坐下來與患者過一遍如何使用吸入器。

Most asthmatics commonly struggle with inhaler technique. It's important to take your inhalers, your reliever and your preventer, as recommended. Sometimes patients will place their inhalers by their toothbrush to remind them to take their inhalers.

大多數哮喘患者通常不知該如何正確使用吸入器。根據建議使用吸入器、緩解器和預防器是十分重要的。有時候患者會將吸入器放在牙刷旁，提醒自己記得使用。