Bronchial asthma in children - symptoms and treatment

For the first time, faced with the symptoms of bronchial asthma, many parents often confuse this serious ailment with a common cold or a viral disease. Only one thing is alarming - the absence of temperature. This sign is an alarm bell, indicating the severity of the disease.

So, how is bronchial asthma manifested in children, what are its first symptoms and methods of treatment? Let's discuss.

Symptoms of bronchial asthma in children

If one of your relatives suffers from this disease or is prone to allergies, be on the alert. It is proved that in 6 out of 10 asthmatics the disease is hereditary. Also increased vigilance to the health of your baby should be shown to residents of large, and industrial waste polluted megacities.

Asthma is dangerous because of its complications, as against the background of frequent respiratory failure, the baby's brain lacks oxygen and can not develop normally. This affects not only the physical development, but also the psychoemotional state. Children diagnosed with bronchial asthma are susceptible to neuroses, emotionally labile. And the most sad - in the absence of adequate treatment and assistance with an asthmatic attack, the outcome of the latter can be lethal. That is why it is so important to recognize the first symptoms of bronchial asthma in children and start treatment on time.

As a rule, shortly before the appearance of the characteristic signs of an ailment, the child has so-called precursors. These include:

• suddenly appeared snot and nasal congestion. Usually watery mucus begins to stand out after a night's sleep, the baby begins to sneeze, rubs the eyes and nose;
• an unproductive cough that appears several hours after the snot. After dinner, the cough is markedly increased, it may become slightly moist.

Emerging precursors should alert parents, in fact, despite its similarity with the symptoms of a cold, on their background, the baby does not rise temperature. And after a while the crumb develops, directly, an asthmatic attack, which is accompanied by:

• a strong dry paroxysmal cough (without the separation of sputum), which may become slightly smaller if taken in an upright position;
• bad state of health, in connection with which the crumb becomes capricious and irritable. The smallest babies can just cry, and older boys start complaining about pain and a pressing feeling in the chest, a shortness of breath;
• shortness of breath, noisy and intermittent breathing.

Atypical symptoms of bronchial asthma in children include: lacrimation, the appearance of skin rashes.

As a rule, attacks of suffocating coughing appear under certain conditions, for example, in close proximity to a pet, in contact with household chemicals, in a library, during or after painting with paints and so on.

How to treat bronchial asthma in a child?

Despite the rapid development of medicine, medications for this ailment, unfortunately, do not exist yet. But with the timely diagnosis of bronchial asthma in children it is quite possible to maintain the quality of their life at a decent level. Therapy, conducted in the detection of the disease, is aimed at stopping seizures and destroying allergens. For the removal of spasms are taken, the so-called symptomatic drugs, their action is aimed at the release of airways for air passage. Such medications are used only in case of emergency, that is, with an attack. Basic therapy in the treatment of bronchial asthma in children is aimed at eliminating inflammation and allergen. It is held for at least three months, and sometimes all the year round. For these purposes, antihistamines, glucocorticoid hormones, and stabilizers of mast cell membranes are used. Good results help to achieve:

• special physical exercises and breathing exercises;
• acupuncture;
• salt mines and gala-cameras.