Allergic asthma in children

Five percent of children under ten years of suffering asthma attacks in the spring, a problem of great concern to parents.

The treatment of asthma attacks, in addition to some medication to relieve symptoms, the following measures:

• Living in a decontaminated environment in a house very clean (the dust is removed with vacuum or electric with a damp cloth, never sweeping) without humidity or smoke snuff. The affected small bedroom furniture indispensable and will have no carpets, rugs and stuffed animals.

• Avoid together with domestic animals, contact with the flowers and leave the field in the spring months.

• If there is a chronic source of infection such as tonsils, adenoids or sinusitis, it is necessary to treat it. Another factor that should be prevented
is the common cold. When autumn arrives, it is desirable that children with recurrent respiratory disease receive the influenza vaccine.

• During the crisis it is necessary to consult with the pediatrician. Possibly prescribe bronchodilators to eliminate bronchial spasm and for sprays fluid mucus. When there is choking, you have to go to a hospital for the child to receive oxygen.

• During periods of crisis, the child shall take a position that allows you to breathe better, ie: lying sideways with her hands crossed and his legs bent, or sitting with the trunk inclined forward.

• Food will be abundant in liquids.

• When the crisis is repetitive, the doctor often teach their parents a few breathing exercises that facilitate the entry of air into the lungs of children and their expulsion from their phlegm.