why does asthma lead to more infections?

[ill13632]

I have asthma and noticed I would sometimes get more infections.
why does asthma lead to more infections?  asthma is an autoimmune disease so shouldn't your immune system be stronger or is your IS somehow messed up in asthma?
I was taking a lot of antibiotics, cipro, doxy, amoxicilin and isoprinosine
asthma seems to be allergic since after returning home after a while I had no symptoms for one month until I got sick and started having asthma/sleep apnea

[ill13632]

maybe someone can explain the biochemistry of why asthmatics are prone to more infections and what we can do to fight this?

[ill13632]

I read that the mucus can cause damage to your airways so it's best to expel as quickly as you can like maybe with dextamorphan or gufalsein

[ill13632]

it's really strange after I went through one 3 week course of 30mg prednisone (30mg-10mg tapered in 3wks) now the 30mg doesn't work for my wheezing!  it's as if I've developed prednisone resistance

[ill13632]

don't vitamin c and echinacea harm your immune system and my cause asthma since they mess up the balance of organisms?

[ill13632]

yeah I have this bad infection after trying zmax for 6 weeks- it didn't cure my asthma as claimed

[ill13632]

my main allergy on blood tests is dust mites and there seems to be this desensitizatin treatment
I think the 30mg prednisone my doctor prescribes me is too high and I think I am going to go with 10mg day in the future- maybe you develop resistance to prednisone also