Why do you start to somewhat lose your voice after having an asthma attack?!
Question: I had a few attacks yesterday afternoon and a few hours later someone pointed out that it sounded like I was starting to lose my voice. This has happened a few times after a bad attack. Why is that?
Answers: I had a few attacks yesterday afternoon and a few hours later someone pointed out that it sounded like I was starting to lose my voice. This has happened a few times after a bad attack. Why is that?
Voice is produced from the voice box(larynx) as result of a free flow of air from the lungs. When the victim suffers with an asthma, basically those tiny airways are constricted and congested with the thick secretions making the flow of air very difficult through the bronchial system. The voice box too gets congested during the acute episode.
So, there is an inadequate air movement that can not vibrate voice box enough to produce the voice. It resolves soon after the acute episode is adequately treated. That`s why steroids are very helpful during the worst episodes of an asthma attack that reduce the oedema and perhaps inflammation of the airways.
Hope, this helps.
I find using my inhalers makes my voice crack/causes me to start losing my voice. So if you have an asthma attack and use your inhaler lots, in addition to the aforementioned asthma damage to your voice box, the drugs will affect it.