World Asthma Day, child asthma should be more attention

Western Network (Shaanxi Radio and television, "First News") today (May 6) is the 16th "World Asthma Day", said asthma people often think this is a common disease of middle-aged and elderly, but in fact, children are also the high population of this illness. And because childhood asthma is often misdiagnosed as common cold cough, in the early onset of disease is difficult to arouse the attention of parents, often delayed the illness.

The little porch, which is just half a year old, looks lively and healthy, but in fact he has been suffering from asthma for 5 months. But the parents just knew about his illness.

Xiao Xuan's father: the child started from a month began a little cough, in the hospital to see many times, began to think that he is ordinary cold fever what, last until now, 10 days after eight days he began to breathe again.

Small Xuan's situation is not an exception, small Hao this year four years old, family also can not tell when he was suffering from asthma, but he was diagnosed two months ago.

Small Hao mother: One day is a bit of a fever, I feel the common cold, and then in (home) other hospitals to see, the doctors are treated by the cold, dozen hanging bottles played four days have not seen better.

In fact, two children who are mistaken for a cold cough by their parents are now diagnosed with asthma. Experts tell us that nearly five of every 100 children in our province are diagnosed with asthma. But because the symptoms are similar to the cough caused by colds in children and the normal wheezing of a baby, the early onset of a child's illness is often overlooked by parents.

Xi ' an Jiaotong university, the second affiliated hospital pediatric Director Howie: If you meet a child with repeated wheezing, or long-term cough cured, or often difficult to treat the cold, to be highly vigilant children have asthma, need to go to the asthma clinic to let specialists to diagnose.

Experts tell us that children with asthma are up to 60% to 70% of adult asthma if they are not regulated. Fortunately, only in adults can be controlled, it is difficult to fundamentally cure asthma, in the children's community there is a great hope to be cured.

If once diagnosed as asthma, should adhere to the norms of long-term treatment and regular visits, then the effect of child asthma treatment is particularly good, almost every child through standardized treatment can be completely cured.