Bronchitis In Toddlers
This section provides information on asthma (asthma) in children. If you are looking for information on asthma (asthma) in adolescents and adults, see asthma in adolescents and adults.
Is asthma (asthma) who?
Asthma (asthma) causes swelling and inflammation in the airways leading to lungs. In case of relapse of asthma, the airways narrow and tight. Thus, air can move easily and make breathing difficult. This is called asthma attacks or exacerbations.
Asthma infecting children in several ways. Some children are asthma attacks during allergy season, when they breathe in cold air, or in the exercise / sport. Lainny have many serious attacks are often the physician.
Even if your child has an asthma attack a few years, you still have to treat asthma. If the swelling and irritation of the respiratory tract of children are not controlled, asthma can reduce the quality of life for your child, keep your child from practice, and increase the risk of children going to hospital.
Although asthma is a chronic disease, treatment can control and keep your child healthy. Many children with asthma play sports and live healthy and active.
What causes asthma?
Experts do not know exactly what causes asthma. But there are things we know:
* Asthma is a hereditary disease.
* Asthma is more common in people with allergies, but not all people with asthma, allergies. And not all people with allergies have asthma.
* The pollution can cause asthma or make it worse.
What are the symptoms?
Symptoms may be mild or severe asthma. You may have mild attacks now and then, or perhaps a severe asthma symptoms every day, or perhaps perpaduannya. How often you have these symptoms can also be changed. If you have asthma, you can:
* Sigh, sound hard or soft hiss that occurs when you inhale and exhale.
* Cough.
* Feeling of tightness in the chest.
• Feeling short of breath.
* Difficulty sleeping because of cough or difficulty breathing.
* Quick tired during exercise or sport.
Your symptoms may worsen at night.
Severe attacks of asthma may be emergency situations that threaten life and require treatment.
As the disease asmadidiagnosis?
With the completion of a physical exam and ask questions about your health, your doctor may perform tests of lung function. These tests include:
* Spirometry. Doctors use this test to diagnose and manage asthma. Measure how fast you can move air in and out of your lungs and how much air is in motion.
* The peak expiratory flow (PEF). This shows how fast you breathe when you try as hard as possible.
* An exercise or inhalation challenge. This test measures the speed at which you can breathe after exercise or after taking medication.
* Chest X-rays to see if there are other diseases that cause symptoms.
* Allergy test if your doctor thinks your symptoms may be caused by allergies.
You need regular examinations with your doctor to monitor your asthma and decide on treatment.
Drugs against asthma?
There are two parts in the treatment of asthma. The objective is:
* Control of asthma in the long term. To do this, use a treatment plan for asthma per day. This is a written plan that provides information about the medicines you take. It also lets you track your symptoms and know very well taken care and treatment is effective. Many people take controller medicine is usually inhaled corticosteroids daily. Using a controller medicine every day helps reduce inflammation in the airways and prevent attacks. The doctor will show you how to properly use suction. It is important that you get the right amount of medication to help him breathe better.
* The treatment of asthma attacks when they occur. Using an action plan that asthma is saying what to do when you have an asthma attack. Help you identify the triggers that can cause seizures. The use of rescue medication, such as albuterol during asthma attacks.
Aspiration (inhalers) with spacer is the best way to treat the lungs of their children. But his son has to use the correct vacuum (inhalers) to function properly. If you are unsure of how to use a vacuum cleaner (CFC) is right, ask your doctor to show you how.
If your child needs to be vacuumed more often than usual, talk to your doctor. It is a sign that your child’s asthma is uncontrolled and can cause problems.
Asthma attacks can be life threatening, but you may be able to avoid that if you follow the plan. Your doctor can teach you the skills you need to treat your child’s asthma and action plans.
How can you prevent asthma attacks?
You can prevent some asthma attacks by avoiding things that cause them. These are the triggers. Triggers can be:
* Irritants in the air like cigarette smoke or air pollution. Do not smoke, and try not to smoke around them.
* Things you are allergic to computers, such as animal dander (cat, dog), dust, cockroaches, or pollen. If you can avoid the things you are allergic to it. It can also help ensure you select the type of drugs against allergies.
* Ask the doctor uses inhalers (empty) if the exercise can trigger.
* Other things like heat, cold, infections, or drugs like aspirin and anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). Try not to exercise outdoors in cold weather and heat. Talk to your doctor about a vaccine to prevent infection, and ask what medications to avoid.
Can be frightening when your child has an asthma attack. You do not feel helped, but it has a daily treatment plan and an action plan for asthma that will help you know what to do during the attack. Asthma attacks can be severe enough to require medical treatment, but in most cases, you can control the symptoms at home if you had an action plan for asthma is good.
