Millenium Health Tips

Asthma is a common disease in children. Incidence of asthma increased in almost all the world, both countries developed and developing countries including Indonesia. This increase was allegedly associated with an increase in the industry that high pollution levels.

Although based on clinical experience and research of asthma is a disease that is often found in children, but the clinical picture of asthma in children vary greatly, even the heavy-light-attack and often lack the attacks change from time to time. As a result of this disorder are not diagnosed or wrong diagnosis sometimes leading to treatment was not strong.

Generally characterized with clinical symptoms of shortness of breath and wheezing (breathing that sounds). Group of children who are reasonably suspected asthma children who showed a cough and / or wheezing that occur in episodic, likely at night / early morning, seasonal, after the event, as well as a history of asthma and atopy in patients and their families.

Is it asthma?

Based on the definition and clinical experience Scadding Godfrey, asthma in children is a disease characterized by wide variations in short periods of time than the resistance of air flow in the pulmonary respiratory tract manifests as recurrent attacks of coughing or wheezing separated by symptom-free intervals.

Change what’s happening on the network?

• Reduction in airway diameter

• Changes in respiratory muscle response

• Disturbances in the autonomic innervation of smooth muscle regulation respiratory

• Epithelial cell damage respiratory mucosa

Trigger factors of asthma in children:

• Emotional factors; emotional disturbances can cause constriction of respiratory tract

• Factors immunological / allergy; now has a lot of evidence that allergy is one of the important factors of asthma development. Atopy is a real risk factor that can cause asthma symptoms.

• Non-allergic factors; viral / bacterial and irritant substances / pollutants.