Taking Care Of Your Child’s Asthma
Asthma is a disease where inflammation blocks the air to flow freely into the lungs and hence one gets difficulty in breathing. Airways become so sensitive with mucus clogged in the air tube that it becomes difficult for the child to sleep with the tightening chest with excess mucus and consistent cough at night. This condition is called flare up.
Symptoms Of Asthma
When chest your child’s asthma triggers, he may show the symptoms like wheezing, shortness of breath, lasting cough at night for a prolonged period and tightening of the.
Risk Factor
Asthma is leading serious chronic illness in all over the world today. It is not known why more and more children are developing asthma. According to some doctors, factors that trigger asthma are children being exposed to ellergens like dust, air pollution and smoke. Other expert suggests that due to disorder of immune system where a child fails to produce enough protective antibiotics are causing asthma in children. It is understood that risk behind childhood asthma are mainly presence of allergies, hereditary causes, frequent cough and cold or respiratory infection after birth and exposure to tobacco smell, smell of perfume, paint and varnish etc
Taking Care
Parents must know the symptoms about triggers.
Stick to a single doctor, who knows everything about your child for regular care.
For monitoring your child’s asthma, work with your doctor and make a plan of action. Submit the plan in your child’s school and keep with yourself. This plan must include the action you or school authority have to take if the ashma flares up or any emergency situation develops.
Consult your doctor before giving any other medicine. Otherwise give medicine timely as prescribed.
Help child to avoid allergens and dust etc. The child must be protected from all kinds of irritants. Parent and the child himself must be able to recognize the early sign of attack. At an early stage use of nebulizer, inhaler can help to get relief to the child.
