Asthma Children | Childhood Asthma
From studies it is found that in UK approx 80% of children develop the symptoms of asthma before children cross the age of 5. Because of this parents can easily make out signs like:
- The child has less stamina.
- The child gets tired very quickly and finds difficult to breath.
- While breathing they breath with noise, otherwise their breathing is quiet.
- They start to cough if they fell short of breath. It can be caused because of exercise, cigarette smoke or allergens like dust, pollens and pets.
There is lot of confusion between bronchitis and asthma, many times the diagnose is done in-correctly in case of children. Children with asthma in early days of their childhood is found to be minimal during their adult hood, but still there are some exceptions. Some children develop asthma and as they grow the problems related to asthma also grow and become more severe asthma. In childhood the wind-pipe is small and this wind-pipe could be blocked very easily due to deposition of mucus on the walls of the wind-pipe.
The common triggers to asthma in children could be exercise or viral infection. Children fall sick when they go through the asthma attack. During the asthma attack the children fell short of breathing, their lungs become tight because they are not able to push the air out of the body, and this puts pressure on the stomach. Because of these reasons children fall sick and complaint about problems faced during asthma.
Asthma Treatment
Small children find taking metered dose inhalers difficult, so doctors prescribe them with asthma syrup instead of asthma inhaler.
Need to take extra care if the doctor have prescribed a course of steroids. Because there is a possibility that the asthma may get triggered because of a potential allergen. The care is needed because the body becomes more sensitive to asthma potential allergens. This care need to be taken for at least a year.
Asthma precautions
- Take medicine on time.
- Keep medicine which are easily accessible to the asthma suffering child and other members of the family.
- Keep the teachers and school staff aware about the asthma problem which your child is suffering from.
- Keep the teachers informed about the medicines to be taken and procedure to follow to take the medicine.
- Keep the contact numbers with the school staff along with the teacher, so that in emergency the person can contact parents immediately.
