How long does it take once you are around whatever triggers your asthma to bring an asthma attack on?

Answer 1

Like most complete answers, it depends.

Many asthmatics already have underlying inflammation in their lung tissue. The more this tissue is inflamed before being exposed to the Asthma trigger, the shorter the time it will take for you to notice an attack attack starting and/or the more severe the asthma attack will likely be. Many asthma attacks are caused by a reaction to a trigger.

Many reactions will start to manifest the beginning symptoms within 30 minutes and most, but not all reactions will manifest symptoms within 90 minutes, meaning that it is very possible to have a nearly immediate reaction (within 3-5 minutes), but sometimes a reaction will take very long to manifest. This is why people who get allergy injection therapy, where the body is being directly exposed to an asthma trigger, must wait at least 20 minutes in the office just in case a reaction manifests. If the trigger is a food allergy, the possible reaction time range can be larger (like seconds all the way up to hours) since, for some people, the food must be digested before they have an reaction and for some people, the slightest exposure to the food can cause a rapid, and deadly reaction called Anaphylaxis.

There is also a possible three-day delay for some specific triggers, like pollen and cockroaches.

This is why preventive asthma medicines are very important in the treatment of asthma. They can delay, mitigate, and/or prevent asthma attacks by reducing the underlying inflammation in their lung tissue. The most common of these medicines are leukotriene receptor antagonist, like Singulair or Accolate in the US, and inhaled corticosteroids, like fluticasone propionate. In the US, the medicine called Advair contains both fluticasone propionate and salmeterol xinafoate, a short-medium action asthma medicine. Of course, other countries use other names for their brand name medicines. i have asthma and it sucks munkey butt

Answer 2

It depends on the seriousness of your allergy, how much you are exposed to the allergen (whatever makes you allergic) & what you are allergic to. Allergies to dust, animal hair, and hayfevers are usually worse the more you are exposed to it, and say, if you were allergic to cats and you touched a cat then you would get allergy symptoms probably in the next minute even. Allergies to foods or medicines usually start either as soon as the food is in your mouth (severe reaction/anaphylaxis) or once you have digested it partly (milder reaction).