Childhood Asthma
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Asthma!
Constricting of the bronchioles in the lungs is the main result of childhood
asthma. Patient suffering from asthma depend on inhalers for 'rescue'
and nebulizer treatments daily to prevent severe attacks from occurring.
Exercise induced asthma often affects children in the mid teens and is
usually treated with albuterol 30 minutes before exercise to prevent childhood
asthma. Coughing, congestion and other symptoms can led to childhood asthma
attacks and therefore common colds and ear infections should be attended
to quickly in asthmatic patients.
New medications to treat childhood asthma significantly decreases the
side effect of hyperactivity and rapid heart rate that albuterol caused,
this medication is Xopenex. It is similar to albuterol in its' effect
on the asthma attack however without the increase in heart rate. Combivent
uses two medications, albuterol and Atrovent to bring patients out of
an acute asthma attack. Asthma in children is a serious condition. Treatment
with daily nebulizer medications should be maintained until a physician
determines the child is not a risk. Caregivers often stop preventative
childhood asthma medications without consulting a physician and the results
can be a sudden episode that requires a trip to the emergency room to
be controlled.
In summary childhood asthma can effect children as young a 2 and adults
as old as 99 it has not preference to race, sex or age. Treatments are
available through a physician and should be followed exactly as planned.
Preventative treatments, allergy shots, immunizations and a smoke free
environment are key to reducing asthma attacks. Children especially should
be kept up on all immunizations since the steroid treatments for asthma
make them susceptible to viruses that in a normal child would pass quickly.
However in an asthmatic patient the steroids to treat asthma cause the
body not to be able to fight the infections and they often become severe.
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