Children who are suffering with asthma should understand the risk involve when appropriate medical attention is not given immediately. The mechanism and the conditions which causes the lungs to become inflamed includes the lymphocytes, antibodies, mast cells, eosinophilis, the epithelial layer and the blood vessels in the bronchial walls. We need to understand the causes of the inflammation so we may understand why immediate care is needed at the first sign of the symptoms. Asthma is an inflammatory disease by which lifestyle greatly influence immunity, immunopathology and physiology of the lungs. Our air contains noxious gases, bacteria, viruses and fungal spores. Sometimes it carries nonviable particles that contain foreign proteins. Our lungs are being exposed by approximately one cubic meter of air per hour. These particles carried by the air contribute to the inflammation of our lungs.
Viruses have the ability to trigger acute attacks by positive interaction with allergens. The strongest correlation is hypersensitivity to proteins found inside the houses. Usually they were derived from dust mites, domestic animals and the German cockroach. Allergens could be in the form of pollen and moulds. Common irritants are the tobacco smoke, air pollutants, strong odors and fumes. Emotional stress is one great cause for my asthma attacks. For my children their asthma are triggered by physical factors like exercise or too much activity especially running, prolong laughter and crying, cold air and hyperventilation. I also experienced these things before. That is why at the house we always have our nebulizer ready. Sometimes when I wake up at night, one of the kids may be wheezing so I immediately nebulized them. You will know it because their breast will sound like cats crying and their stomach are like deep waves rolling. It is advisable not to cover the stomach of the children when they are having attacks because sometimes there’s no sound effects just the wavelike deep breathing.
The cough usually appears and are usually nonstop and severe during night time or early morning. When you feel they can’t be cured with the regular cough and colds medicines or if they get cured they come back after one week or a few days then you got to get your child to the doctor. You may not hear it but with the use of a stethoscope they are already wheezing inside. They need to be closely monitored by their pediatrician and they need to have their maintenance also aside from the regular cough and cold medicine. The severity of the disease is reflected by the volume expelled in the first second of the forced expiration. This also connotes severity of the airways obstruction. The patient expels air rapidly. And this is the time that I hate to breath and is most likely will be holding my breath for a few seconds before expelling because I am finding it difficulty to breath air. During my asthma attacks I don’t really care much for make up or anything. I could trade places for a little comfort.
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Let me tell you how it feels so you may understand if you are not affected by the disease but has to take care of someone affected by it. Air flow is very little and it seems that your chest is being controlled or I think it feels like you can measure only a half inch flow of the air inside your lungs. Expelling phlegm while coughing is real tiresome and can really affect your mood and eating habit. At night time, I would cough and always get out of bed to expel phlegm and I get weary doing it the whole night. But sleep and rest is very hard to find when you have the cough, the colds and the asthma. Terrible disease it almost got me years ago. I was thinking I would really die. I made it to the hospital on time and was given oxygen. From that time on, I made it a goal to save money to buy a nebulizer. Now I got two nebulizers for the whole family. Being asthmatic is not easy. It will occur anytime and the child must know how to handle self.
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