If the responsibility of sharp stress in the asthma attacks of the child is known, a Finnish job has just shown that the delay between event and exacerbation of illness is possible vary according to the state of tension of the child. If there is not chronic stressful context, this delay is three...

The parents of an asthmatic child have to know that asthma is under no circumstances a taboo illness or a disabling illness and to inform about him their child, who must lead a life family, school, social and sports as whom of his friends, on the only condition to notice correctly and...

The asthma attack is only "the part appeared from the iceberg". It is caused by various attacks of bronchuses: allergens, contagious agents (especially viruses), pollutants of air, etc. These attacks draw away an inflammation of the bronchuses which persists between crises. On these bronchuses "ignited , a new exhibition to the "attackers"...

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, 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...

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...

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...

The peak-flow, called also advanced a d bitm tre, is a small portable apparatus which records the advanced respiratory debit. More simply he allows to measure the breath of the child. It is a method much more accessible than EFA, usable by the luim me child, to leave e the age of five or six years....

No, it is the absence of treatment of the crisis which is risked. The bronchodilatateurs of quick and short-term action managed fast against crisis is going to relieve your child. They tranquilize the spasm of bronchuses and give again to them a normal diameter. Air can so start circulating easily...

Is it possible to begin the treatment before it arrives? The call to the doctor is necessary in different circumstances: the diagnosis of the asthma of your child is recent and you still do not know what it is necessary to make; you are anxious as well as your child; crisis seems to you unusual or does not give in fast in...

Not only the treatment of crisis must never be postponed, but he must even be put under way before she becomes established, from the appearance of warning signs. These signs "sentries", or prodromes, are always identical for the same child: a nose which runs, a cough which is repeated...