PREVENTION OF ALLERGIES AT HOME The medical adviser in internal environment Si diagnosis and installation of a medical treatment constitute an important part of the taking care of allergic illness, the measures of oustings remain a major stage in the improvement of the quality of life of the allergic....

Dog's allergens From 3 to 14 % only of a not chosen population are sensitised in dog's allergens, while 40 % asthmatic children are him. Dog's allergen is in the fur. He is also present in the saliva and the skin. He is found of an ubiquitaire way...

Asthma is an illness of bronchuses. Bronchuses are the conduits which allow the air charged with oxygen to go to lungs to oxygenate the blood which irrigates organism then. Asthma is characterised by difficulties to breathe due to a shrinkage (tightening) of bronchuses (Bronchospasme). The child, who until then went well...

No. Asthma is not a psychosomatic illness, but an illness of bronchuses. Asthma is not caused, straight , by psychological reasons. He appears on a particular "ground" (genetics) when the patients are displayed to the 'attackers . But attention, psychological factors are important! At an asthmatic child...

If the inflammation of bronchuses is not fought by adapted medicaments, it is even going to persist and augments. She draws away then a thickening of the wall of bronchuses, what makes them lose their suppleness. The evolution at the age grown-up depends especially on the gravity of asthma during childhood. Most often...

Here is a misconception it is true that a light asthma improves often spontaneously. Simple fact to take care of a chronic illness gives a significant improvement. With better knowledge of illness, crises are told, treated earlier, therefore less serious; the parents avoid smoking...

No, asthma is not an infectious illness. Cough is a symptom of asthma. But, contrary to the cough of infectious diseases, for example influenza or whooping cough, that of the asthmatic is without risk for circle. This cough translates a sensitivity exaggerated by bronchuses (hyperreactivity) due to the inflammation. published in...

With the aid of complex but very definite methods, the geneticists located, on several chromosomes, places which control the production of the allergic antibodies (or lgE), the importance of bronchial hyperreactivity and of other symptoms of asthma. This family predisposition in asthma is known for a long time: the children born in parents attained by asthma...

Yes. Allergic rhinitis and asthma are two symptoms of the atopie. It is necessary to know two things: firstly, rhinitis precedes asthma three times on four; secondly, asthma is two - four times as frequent at the patients' with an allergic rhinitis that to those who do not have it. He...

The genetic predisposition which favours allergic diseases (eczema, asthma, cold of hays, food allergies) is called 'an atopie . A child predisposed to become allergic often introduces his first symptoms during the first months of life: eczema, digestive disorders, food allergies in the milk or in the egg. Later...

In the research of factors implicated in the increase of infantile asthma, the chloric air of the covered swimming pools is in good position among the supposed culprits. Results of an European inquiry. By ESTABLISHING a link between the more and more high prevalency of asthma at the children and the company of the covered swimming pools, the two...

No, but it is necessary to modify answer. Let us remember that asthma is classified in several stadiums of gravity. If most asthma are said intermittent (because of a weak number of crises), about 10 % are persistent (because crises are frequent and serious). It is in this last group that...

Reasons of nocturnal cough, very frequent symptom at the child, are numerous. Asthma is one of them, but it is not the only one. It is necessary to think of asthma if cough is dry, is repeated several following days, if episodes of cough often return in year....

Bronchuses are encircled with small muscles which contract in every attack it is the bronchospasme, the main representative for bronchial blockage in the course of the asthma attack. This blockage can also come from the swelling (edema) of the mucous membrane or from the excessive production of phlegm (especially at the preschooler). She...

Asthma attack is called the violent or progressive appearance of a respiratory sifflante discomfort. This discomfort is often preceded of symptoms avantcoureurs (or prodromes) nocturnal cough drawing away the waking, cough in effort especially in the breathing of cold air. There is also digestive prodromes, as nausea or vomiting. The children...

Yes, tobacco addiction is a formidable blight in all ages, but especially at the young children who cannot escape it. Yes, passive tobacco addiction causes numerous respiratory symptoms, conjunctivitises, nasopharyngites, bronchitis and asthma attacks, that the children are allergic or not. The parents have not to smoke...

If they think of the full moon, no. On the other hand, summer asthma (irritative action some ozone) is known. A physical activity by cold and dry time favours asthma attacks, phenomenon noticed at the thorough skiers, the skaters, the players of ice hockey... To others, it is the fog which will be...

At the same child, some of these factors can combine or succeed one another. allergy is a very important reason. Allergens are inside houses: dust mites (mattresses, pillows, carpet, etc.), animals (cats, dogs, small pets), mildew (humid walls, tapestries taken off, green plants), cockroaches. They are also...

Of course! An asthmatic new-born baby is a child (less than 24 months) who introduced at least three episodes of respiratory sifflante discomfort: it is definition. In this age (and until 3-4 years) asthma is due to several reasons: the viral infections (asthma often begins after one...

At the same child, some of these factors can combine or succeed one another. allergy is a very important reason. Allergens are inside houses: dust mites (mattresses, pillows, carpet, etc.), animals (cats, dogs, small pets), mildew (humid walls, tapestries taken off, green plants), cockroaches. They are also...

Yes. at an asthmatic child, "stresses", especially emotional (decease, divorce), can cause an asthma attack: the mechanisms of these crises are badly known. Tears and laugh also sometimes cause crises. In fact it is not really the emotion which launches crisis, but a mechanism...

1. There is a risk of allergy at a child coming from parents having euxm mes an allergic affection (asthma, food allergy (eczema), rMume of hays): 15-20 % (no parent is allergic), 30-40 % (one of both parents is allergic), 50-60 % (both parents are allergic), 80 % (both parents have...

For more than 20 years, the frequency of allergies so much augmented that they pose from now on an important problem of Public health. It is therefore logical to ask questions on the mechanisms of this tendency, to organise preventive measures, if at all possible. On the whole, in 20 years, the prevalency of...