1. Those who generally suffer from some sort of throat affection and there is recurrence of symptoms relating thereto.

2. Those having a family history of asthma.

3. Persons who often suffer from bouts of sneezing, especially at the change of season.

4. Persons experiencing coughing at the change of season.

5. Those living in polluted environments and whose houses are dark, damp and filthy and where standard of personal hygiene is appallingly poor and where sun rays cannot enter.

6. Persons working in cloth mills, chemical factories, flour mills, paint and varnish factories, coal miners, laborers who work in stone quarries.

7. Persons who easily get breathless even after a light exercise or due to change of season.

8. Recurring bouts of rhinitis, (sneezing) and eczema could also be the pre-disposing and precipitatory causes to trigger an attack of asthma.

9. Those who are sensitive to cold winds and develop breathing problem.

10. Persons whose nose often remains blocked and, thus, have difficulty in breathing through nose.

There could be other situations/causes which may trigger an attack of asthma.

Asthma has been observed to run from one generation to another. If grand parents of a child had asthma, but not the parents, even then risk factor still looms large over the child. Allergy may manifest itself in some other form - that is a parent may not have asthma but his one child may have tendency to sneezing and the other from eczema.

Hypersensitivity to a particular type of allergy cannot be brought under control. For instance, if there is a smoke and/or toxin emitting chimney near the house, the only viable alternative and solution is to change the residence. But due to certain socio-economic factors, it is not possible. There is no guarantee that even if you, somehow, manage to change your residence you may not have to face some other problem which also might prove to be another potent precipitatory allergic factor.

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