outpatient clinics often bring their children to come and ask worriedly: "The doctor told me that the baby may have asthma. Is it really asthma?" Whenever the doctor told parents that the child has asthma, the parents' reaction was almost a bolt from the blue, and they felt that asthma was a terminal illness that would not be cured.
In fact, asthma is caused by repeated tracheal sensitivity, which is a gradual chronic disease. As long as the symptoms of inflammatory reaction are mild, it will be treated as early as possible to avoid the worsening of inflammation and long-term injuries to lung tissues and fibrosis, children's asthma will mostly improve and heal.
Usually, I will tell my anxious parents, "I am an example of asthma recovery!"
Repeated tracheal sensitivity will gradually develop into asthma
Asthma is an allergic bronchial disease. If a child gets sick every time he gets sick, he will be accompanied by severe cough and wheezing. You should suspect that there is tracheal sensitivity. At this time, it cannot be called asthma, but if a child with tracheal sensitivity becomes sick repeatedly, it is easy to become asthma.
I often use the spring coil to describe it. Repeatedly pulling the spring coil is constantly causing physical damage caused by tracheal sensitivity. The multiple spring coil pulls and finally the elastic fatigue will become a straight line, and it will no longer become the original elasticity of the spring. At this time, the damage that cannot be restored to the body is called asthma.
What changes will happen to asthma?
If you hear a "swooshing sound" in your breath just once or twice, you can't be sure that you are breathing. I will comfort my nervous parents, and as long as I cooperate with the doctor's treatment, I will still have the chance to improve when I grow up. But parents must be alert. Once they get sick and cough, they should take their children to seek medical treatment immediately, because children with sensitive trachea are prone to inflammation of the sensitive trachea due to the accumulation of sputum and secretions in the trachea, causing swelling of the trachea wall, narrowing of the caliber, and finally fibrosis.
Once the trachea is fibrated, it is not easy to restore the original tracheal diameter. At this time, children will suffer from respiratory obstruction, causing discomfort in breathing due to respiratory obstruction, resulting in severe cough or wheezing, which is asthma. Therefore, when the tracheal sensitivity continues to occur repeatedly and is not treated, it may often progress to asthma.
What causes trachea to be sensitive?
Children with tracheal sensitive mainly inherit their parents' allergic constitution and external environmental factors, such as after being infected with bacteria or viruses, the allergic reaction will increase due to low resistance, so the trachea will become more sensitive and the symptoms will be exacerbated, such as respiratory fusion virus infection during the neonatal period.
In addition, dust and dirt in the air, exposure to allergic allergens caused by smoking in the house, dust in furniture and carpets during infancy, or food that is prone to allergies will also increase the chance of tracheal sensitivity. Parents should pay more attention.
Attention! There may not be a "swooshing sound" when you have asthma!
About 10% of children suffer from different degrees of asthma. Asthma is a phenomenon of contraction of the trachea due to allergic reactions. When the trachea contracts severely, exhalation may make a "swooshing" or so-called "swinging". Therefore, when children have asthma attacks, parents at home are prone to hear "swoosh sounds", which is also the most common clinical manifestation of asthma children.
In fact, only about half of the children's patients breathe sounds when the disease occurs, while most patients only have the trouble of continuous or frequent recurrence of coughing.
Children cannot do a "spike expiratory flow rate (PEF)" test for lung function to diagnose asthma in children. Instead, the doctor will suspect that they have suffered from asthma based on whether there are repeated tracheal sensitivity and "swooshing sounds" before, or the following symptoms have appeared.
1. Difficulty in breathing: Continuous or frequent recurrence of coughs lead to poor breathing (especially in the evening, early morning or after exercise.) 2. Chronic cough and wheezing: Common colds will cough for many days. It is difficult to breathe, or makes a "swoosh" sound when breathing.
3. Chest tightness: chest tightness and feeling stressed.
What parents should pay attention to is that it is not necessary to have the above symptoms to be considered asthma.Some mild symptoms do not necessarily cause wheezing or making a "swooshing sound", only "coughing" is the only noticeable symptom. Therefore, if a child has persistent or frequent recurrence of cough and illness for several days, he may be tracheal sensitive. If he is often repeatedly infected and not properly treated, it will easily turn into asthma.
Do you need to get blood tests for allergens?
Children with asthma allergic attacks come from the environment or food allergens. According to statistics, dust mites are the most allergens that induce asthma, accounting for more than 90%. In addition to improving the environment, children must also avoid eating food that causes asthma and treat it with medication.
If a child over 2 years old cannot improve allergic symptoms after environmental, food control and drug treatment, doctors may recommend blood tests for the "allergic sources" that induces asthma.
Stay away from allergens, three devices and one set of devices cannot be missed
blood draw result. If a certain allergen is positive, it means that the body is sensitive to the environment or allergens in food. At this time, you should avoid exposure to allergens, which is the concept of "prevention is greater than treatment". The key to avoid asthma. In addition to avoiding allergens in the environment as much as possible, it is recommended to use three sets of devices in places where children often appear at home: filters, vacuum cleaners, dehumidifiers and dust covers to prevent asthma caused by common dust mites and molds.
If you find food that is allergic, you should avoid eating this food. In addition, cold drinks can irritate the trachea and cause trachea to contract and cause more severe coughs. Therefore, children with asthma must try to avoid drinking cold drinks and food.
How to treat asthma?
The purpose of asthma medication treatment is to restore respiratory obstruction and avoid respiratory asthma symptoms in children. Asthma medications are mainly divided into two categories: "relieving drugs" and "control drugs".
"Relieving Drugs" mainly contain short-acting bronchodilator drugs, divided into spray-type and oral bronchodilator . Dilaters can quickly relieve bronchial contraction and accompanying acute symptoms in children with asthma, and are used to urgently rescue acute cough, chest tightness and wheezing symptoms in children with asthma.
However, after continuous use of bronchodilator every day for up to two weeks, it will cause an increase in the sensitivity of the rebound airway bronchial, so it is not recommended to use bronchodilator regularly every day. This type of drug can only be used when necessary.
"Control Drugs" are therapeutic drugs that must be used for a long time daily basis to control and maintain the stability of long-term asthma. Includes oral steroids, inhaled corticosteroids and long-acting bronchodilators, and leukotriene modulators. Leukotriene regulators are more effective when combined with antihistamines, and can be presented within two to four weeks. These are the most effective control drugs at present.
If you want to achieve the best treatment effect, in addition to using drugs as directed by the doctor, you must cooperate to improve the environment or lifestyle, avoid environmental and food allergens, and reduce the occurrence of induced asthma, such as avoiding illness and colds, so as to reduce the time for drugs to control the disease.
Faced with asthma, the environment, food and medicine are indispensable
Finally, we should give asthma parents a heart-wrenching agent. As long as we do a good job of environmental control and food control and use medicine, more than half of the chances of asthma can be cured. I was also a long-term asthma and recovered from junior high school. Therefore, cooperate well with treatment, pay attention to the environment, food, and work hard together!
