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...

According to the Pr Paul Van Cauwenberge, department ORL, Ghent, Belgium, December, 1999 They noticed that many patients having a rhinitis also introduced signs of asthma, but the researchers wonder if it is not rather about a coincidence than about a true relation between these two affections. Rhinitis is defined...

This Scottish trial, randomis and controlled, was aimed at knowing if the parents of asthmatic children would give up smoking or change their tabagique behaviour having been informed about the delinquency of passive tobacco addiction at their children. It was led in 73 medical practices and included 501 families...

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...

According to the Pr Guy Dutau, allergologie and pneumologie, hospital of the Children, Toulouse (December, 1999) The natural history of the atopique (DA) dermatitis remains rather badly known, especially its reports with asthma and bronchial hyper reactivity (HRB). On the present state of a question still impregnated with myths often coming from popular beliefs. Dermatitis...

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...

For what are of use corticoids inhaled? When crises or respiratory discomfort are too frequent or that the measure of breathing is not good, it is that there is an inflammation of bronchuses: corticoids inhaled struggle against this inflammation. This treatment prevents crises and discomfort...

Concerning l' asthma the official report of epidemic does not date today's, far needs. For proof these Scandinavian directives on subject the prevention of phenomenon, which go back up already in the middle of 1990s. But this day, solutions offered then did not make the demonstration of their interest otherwise than...

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. 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...

The objective of the patch tests of allergy is to try to know if the child is sensitised to one or several allerg nes* and to identify them. The results of these tests are very fast obtained, at the end of about fifteen minutes. Linked to information concerning the circumstances of appearance of the symptoms of illness...

Patch tests allergologiques are accomplished according to the technology of the prick, which consists in making a small superficial injection, with a lancet with which end is provided with a very small top, across a drop of the allergen beforehand deposited on the skin. They are practically painless and draw away at most...

Patch tests allergologiques are accomplished according to the technology of the prick, which consists in making a small superficial injection, with a lancet with which end is provided with a very small top, across a drop of the allergen beforehand deposited on the skin. They are practically painless and draw away at most...

"EFR" means respiratory functional exploration. It is an examination which assesses evenly the respiratory state of the child and allows to appreciate the gravity of asthma. Some children complain u about their respiratory discomfort, and the parents can therefore think that the child is not very embarrassed. That is why he is necessary of...

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....

Normally, the pulmonary radiography does not show anomalies in the course of asthma. She must however be accomplished systematically to exclude illness other than asthma. Indeed any discomfort in the flow of air in bronchuses can make hiss a child and especially a new-born baby. He is therefore...

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...

All asthmatic children can have asthma attacks in effort. During strains, breathing accelerates The circulation of air in bronchuses and in windpipe draw away then an inflammation and a spasm of bronchuses. The breathing of cold and dry air aggravates this phenomenon. Thanks to the treatment...

The asthma attack does not come down to a simple spasm of bronchuses. Also caused by an inflammation and an excessive production of secretions, it is at the origin of a blockage of bronchuses. When this one is important, it is necessary to use corticoids (the cortisone) by the mouth (in tablets or there...

Once instituted, the thorough treatment must be even followed during several months, non-stop, and especially when the child goes well. The doctor changes prescription and adapts the quantity of medicaments according to the needs of the child, what avoids excessive doses. When advantageous effect will be got, the doctor...

Desensitizing consists in managing small quantities of allergens either by injection, or by way sublinguale (the medicament is put under the language then swallowed). It is a long-drawn-out treatment. Once undertaken, desensitizing must last at least three years. No significant effect is to hope before in...

After several months of treatment, when the child goes well, the doctor will try to diminish progressively the doses of inhaled corticoides. A stopping can be envisaged when needs in medicaments will have become trifling. The thorough treatment will be able to be stopped if EFR remains good, if signs as...

The thorough treatment is necessary if crises are often repeated (what is called persistent asthma). Its purpose is to normalise the respiratory state of the child and to avoid crises or worsening of illness. Medicaments of first rank of the thorough treatment are the inhaled corticdides, in whom one...

The taking care of asthma does not include regime, safe, of course, in case of linked food allergy. Contrary to some id e re ue, it is useless to subject the child who takes corticoids inhaled in a regime without salt and there is no cause for avoiding the red fruits...

The struggle against the dust mites, essentials in case of allergy to the dust mites, crosses principally by the use of anti-acanens dust covers for the elements of the bedclothes (pillows, bolsters, mattress). Other measures are also recommended: use a base with laths; wash the removable elements of the bedclothes regularly and in the hot water;...

Even if it is a decision sometimes difficult to take, the animals must be moved away from the home when they are directly responsible for disturbances of the child. Decision is made case by case according to symptoms, to inquiry allergologique and tests of ousting-reintroduction of the animal. published in www.medecine-et-enfance.net

No, a move in another region on the pretext that a child of the family is asthmatic can draw only disillusions away. The purpose of the anti-asthmatic treatment just is to allow to the child to live normally where it domiciles with his parents. That being the case, holiday in the mountain...

The impression of the parents on the state of health of their asthmatic child is a subjective notion, which can sometimes be misleading. It is therefore necessary to continue measuring its breath, because it is the only means to confirm that it goes well. published in www.medecine-et-enfance.net

Take dust covers with one antidust mites (when the child is there allergic), all anti-asthmatic medicaments, rooms of inhalation (used for the administration of medicaments to the children who cannot use inhalers correctly), the peak-flow, the last prescriptions, the last thoracic radiography and a summary of the history of the written child...