Allergies and asthma-Capacity of the parents in the fight against asthma

Allergies and asthma
Capacity of the parents in the fight against asthma

The specialists start to understand that there exists a bond between the allergies and asthma. Indeed, the children reached of allergies are often also prone to the asthma and a skin disease called dermatite atopic (eczema). As the factors starting the allergy can lead to asthma attacks, an effective control of these allergies can lead to a better control of asthma. However, the asthma attacks cannot always be avoided.

See his/her child to make an asthma attack is always source of concern or insecurity as for control to be adopted at the time of a forthcoming crisis. The doctor of your child and your pharmacist will recommend the drug or the drugs, the proportioning and the device of administration to you which are appropriate to him. Learn how to manage its drugs to him in a suitable way and ensure you to include/understand the “action plan well” conceived to face the best possible one with the asthma of your child. Preserve this action plan within reach: it is a list which guides you during the stages which will enable you to determine if the symptoms of asthma worsen, if it is necessary to increase the amount of the drugs and if it is time to call upon a doctor. It is also possible that one advises you to use a flowmeter of point. This apparatus enables you to evaluate the operation of the lungs. If your child makes an asthma attack, here the procedure to follow:

keep your calm and your insurance, speak with the child in a reassuring way;
give the drugs intended to relieve the symptoms as of the first signs of crisis;
you ensure that the child drinks sufficiently to avoid dehydration;
try to determine the factor which could start the crisis and eliminate it from the environment of the child;
follow the action plan. If your child uses a flowmeter, take a measure to use it within the framework of this plan;
if the crisis is controlled, you can slacken. If not, call the doctor.
You can be the best ally of your child in the control of his asthma. Make circulate information near the teachers, directors and school nurses, trainers and guards. Indicate to them what starts asthma and describe the procedure to follow during a crisis. As the child grows, explain to him how it must act in the event of symptoms. And if you smoke, try to give up, or at least, do not smoke in the house: smoke worsens the symptoms of asthma.