Pediatric asthma, also known as bronchial asthma, is a chronic airway inflammation involving a variety of cells, especially mast cells, eosinophils, and T lymphocytes. The main clinical manifestations are recurrent wheezing cough, dyspnea, and chest tightness. Unlike adult asthma, children’s lungs are in the stage of growth and development, and airway lesions are reversible in the early onset of asthma. Therefore, once a child is diagnosed, parents should take the treatment seriously and actively cooperate with the doctor.
In the acute attack stage of asthma, anti-asthma and anti-inflammatory treatments are mainly used to relieve symptoms quickly. When children enter the chronic persistent phase and clinical remission phase, they should not be careless. They should take preventive drugs every day and avoid contact with allergens to prevent the aggravation of symptoms and prevent recurrence. The commonly used preventive drug in clinical practice is aerosol inhalation hormone, its dosage is only a few tenths of that of systemic medication, it hardly produces systemic effects, it has good safety, and can effectively reduce airway inflammation and airway hyperplasia. Reactivity, control symptoms, reduce seizures. During the inhalation treatment, parents need to help and guide the child to press and spray the medicine on the throat, and at the same time cooperate with deep breathing, and then close the mouth and hold the breath for 10 seconds, which can improve the treatment effect. Rinse the child’s mouth with water in time after the medication to avoid adverse reactions such as oral fungal infection.
Allergic asthma in children is prone to sudden attacks, but there are usually auras, if detected and controlled in time, major attacks can be avoided. Therefore, it is recommended that parents keep albuterol aerosol, budesonide aerosol, and oral anti-asthmatic drugs at home.
reduce exposure to allergens
Children with allergic asthma are prone to acute attacks when exposed to abnormal smells such as flour, dust, soot, mosquito coils, and home decoration paints, so they should be avoided as much as possible in daily life; pay attention to keeping the indoor air clean, and often open windows for ventilation; Fill it with old tidbits and feathers, change it frequently and expose it to the sun; try not to place scented flowers and plants indoors, and it is not suitable to keep pets at home; wear a mask when taking the child to public places, so that the filtering and adsorption effect is better Activated carbon masks are preferred.
eat well and dress warmly
Children’s physical development is not perfect, and the disease consumes more physical energy. Therefore, parents need to provide a light, less stimulating, and nutritious diet. However, considering that children are allergic and are prone to allergies to some high-protein foods, it is therefore necessary to avoid providing a large amount of high-protein foods, such as dairy products, egg products, fish, shrimp and crab and other seafood. In addition, some pigments and other additives in processed foods are also common allergens. Parents should try not to let their children eat snacks containing these ingredients. For children with loss of appetite, you can choose appetizing foods such as Gorgon fruit and hawthorn.
The children themselves have weak resistance, and they are more likely to get sick if they catch a cold and catch a cold. Therefore, it is necessary to do a good job of keeping them warm, especially in spring and autumn when the temperature difference between morning and evening is relatively large, and it is necessary to add clothes in time. Children can take appropriate aerobic exercise to improve their physical fitness, but do not exercise in places with a lot of pollen and when the climate changes greatly, and avoid strenuous exercise, especially when asthma attacks.
In addition to the above measures, parents also need to create an attack file for their baby, and carefully observe and record the time, place, weather, diet, environment, etc. of each baby’s asthma attack to find out the law and cause of the attack, and then take Targeted measures to be avoided.
