How doctor diagnosed asthma in children?

How doctor diagnosed asthma in children?

Your doctor can diagnose by the symptoms that tell the parents and the child, as well as chest auscultarle. It is very useful to measure lung capacity through a flowmeter (peak flow meter), a simple device that measures the speed with which the child expels air from her lungs. This measurement can be done in the office and at home, which is particularly effective in very intermittent or where triggered by exercise or that occur more at night.
However, the best diagnostic aid is the good treatment response test is often prescribed for the symptoms.

Asthma medication

Very often it is necessary to administer medication to the child, in order to:
•    Eliminate the symptoms, allowing social reintegration through play and exercise
•    Attenuating allergic reactions in the body and alleviate airway inflammation
•    Reduce or eliminate the long-term effects of inflammation on the lungs, allowing normal development.
Medications for asthma are basically like those used in adults, with some particularities. They are classified into two groups:

Bronchodilators

Quick effect, relaxing the bronchial muscles and relieve symptoms like coughing, wheezing and shortness of breath. They are part of the emergency treatment of acute asthma attacks.

Inflammatory

Or prophylactic acting longer term, reducing bronchial inflammation .
Both groups can be combined.

How causes asthma in children?

How causes asthma in children?

Asthma is the most common chronic disease in children, so that between 1 and 2% of all children suffer from asthma attacks in childhood, and between 15 and 20% of all children experience some difficulty attack respiratory wheezing, fail to develop asthma. However, about 50% of children diagnosed with asthma come to heal upon reaching adulthood.
Generally, children have asthma attacks during the cold of origin virus , also allergic irritants and can cause it, such as:
•    Pollens from trees or grasses
•    Skin, hair and pet dander
•    Foods such as milk or eggs
•    Dust mites domestic
•    Microscopic fungi and molds.

What does worsen childhood asthma?

There are a number of irritants that exist in the environment that contribute to worsening asthma attacks.
•    Exposure to substances you are allergic
•    Snuff smoke (cigarettes or pipe)
•    Common Colds
•    Pollution and dust
•    Efforts and exercise (this does not mean that they should not exercise, but specific medication applied before).

When to see a doctor?

Parents should take their children to the doctor at the mere suspicion that they have asthma, according to the symptoms described above. If your child is already diagnosed, and medication does not work or seems to make it worse, do not hesitate to consult your doctor and if any infection of the respiratory tract.
You need to consult a doctor urgently if:
•    The child has difficulty breathing
•    The skin or lips change color and become very pale or blue
•    Shortness of breath worsens dramatically
•    Asthma crisis is much worse than usual.

What is an asthma attack?

What is an asthma attack?

The asthma is a chronic disease of the airways in which alternate crisis breathlessness and cough, caused by inflammation of the bronchi, with relatively normal periods. Crises can be mild, moderate or severe, with a variable duration from a few minutes to several days, and may occur at any time.

During an asthma attack, inflammation of the mucous membranes lining the respiratory tract and contraction or spasm of the circular muscles of the bronchi causing a decrease in the size of these pathways, causing shortness of breath and wheezing.

What can make asthma symptoms in children?

The basis for suspecting asthma symptoms are shortness of breath, coughing and wheezing or noisy breathing. However, children may have some peculiarities.
In young children, from 0-3 years, the symptoms may include:
•    Noise (hiss) when breathing air
•    Cough, shortness of breath, wheezing or wheezing with exercise
•    Prolonged coughing, especially at night or worsen at night, not caused by a cold
•    Malaise
•    Colds and repetition that are slow to heal.
In children aged 3-15 years, the symptoms are:

Did you know that ...

•    50% of children who suffer from it are cured with age?
•    is the most common chronic childhood disease?
•    up to 20% of children suffer some respiratory disorder, although not develop asthma?
•    Hissing noise when breathing (expel) the air
•    Prolonged cough, especially at night or early morning
•    Nighttime awakenings with cough
•    Inactivity, lack of desire to participate in games or exercises that require physical exertion.