Is pediatric asthma contagious? What are the symptoms of asthma in children?

Asthma must be treated aggressively, long-term standardized, and must be treated under the guidance of a doctor. Treatment in the acute phase and preventive treatment in the palliative phase must be adhered to. Parents should regard childhood asthma, some children's asthma may not be self-cured when they grow up, some children will naturally get better when they are older, when the long-term attack affects his growth and development, he has a long-term onset of lung hypoxia, five organs hypoxia, brain hypoxia, affecting his growth and development, such as asthma frequent attacks of children, even when he does not attack, he can not exercise vigorously, after he exercises vigorously, he will attack, that is called exercise asthma, so all related functions, especially the parents of the child, should be highly valued, Be sure to carry out long-term treatment, exercise, and clothing and diet conditioning.

It should be noted that the vast majority of adult asthma is childhood asthma that has not been thoroughly treated, so it is left to adults to become lifelong asthma, and it is hoped that government departments and international medical institutions will officially publicize it, so that the general public can realize that this asthma is harmful to health, endangering the quality of life, and even endangering life, and everyone needs to raise awareness of prevention to prevent and treat asthma together.

1. Cultivate good living habits

To prevent recurrent respiratory tract infections in young children, it is necessary to cultivate good hygiene habits in children, such as washing hands frequently, not touching their nose and eyes, and letting children learn the correct way to wipe their nose; Pay attention to oral hygiene on weekdays, brush your teeth once a day in the morning and once in the evening, and cough your mouth with water after meals to prevent pharyngeal infection; Open the windows frequently for ventilation, and wash and dry the child's bed sheets and bedding frequently; Try to avoid dust when cleaning.

2. Stay away from the source of infection

Viruses and bacteria related to respiratory infections generally appear in department stores, train stations, etcabortionIn dense places, parents should avoid their children staying in such high-traffic places.

Outdoor activities should be avoided as much as possible on cloudy days. Dust particles in cloudy days can easily carry pathogenic bacteria directly into children's respiratory tract, causing respiratory diseases, and it is necessary to stay away from infected people.

3. Eat a reasonable and balanced diet

It is best to breastfeed your baby exclusively and start adding complementary foods at 4 months. After weaning at the age of one year, cultivate good eating habits such as eating on time, not picky eaters, and not picky eaters.

4. Strengthen exercise to improve immunity

Frequently take children to walk, jog, kick ball, operate, play, ride a bicycle and other ability exercise programs, let children wash their faces with water, and improve children's adaptability and resistance to climate change.

Dietary therapy in our Chinese medicine is called medical food homology, doctor medical treatment, food food, medical food homology or medicine homology, many foods can be used in medicine, can be made for medicinal purposes, and can also be used to make food. You have walnuts, for example, it can be used as a kidney, and it can also be used as food, which is a good food.

During the acute asthma attack, patients are advised to eat a light diet and eat light, not greasy and fatty food. For example, when the attack is severe, you can use white rice porridge, which has a sweet smell, nourishes the stomach, and is easy to digest. Therefore, patients who are often clinically sick cook porridge and eat it when it is an acute attack.

For patients with asthma in this way, children and adults can also use the method of cooking porridge and drinking tea to supplement the deficiency of human spleen, stomach and lung qi. During the specific remission period, you can use dried ginger, licorice, jujube, jujube and white rice to cook porridge, which has the effect of strengthening the spleen and stomach and removing cold, which is beneficial to physical deficiency and cold, and can be cooked and eaten in the morning. If you are a child with spleen deficiency and asthma, you can cook porridge with Huaishan, jujube, coix, and white rice during remission and eat it often.

Clinically, eat porridge in the morning, eat porridge, eat the spleen and stomach every day, jujube strengthens the spleen and stomach to replenish blood gas, coix has the role of profit, the effect of strengthening the spleen and stomach, white rice is sweet and nourishes the stomach, and it also has the effect of cultivating the soil and producing gold after nourishing the stomach, the spleen rises, the lung qi rises, and the lung function is sound if the physique belongsKidney deficiencyFor children with asthma, you can use walnuts, jujubes, yams, and white rice to cook porridge, and you can also tonify the kidney, spleen and kidney. The function of the spleen is sound, the nutrient absorption is good, the kidney function will also be improved, and the effect of slowly tonifying the kidney has also been achieved, so we can usually use these dietary therapy methods to assist in the treatment of children's asthma.

What are the symptoms of asthma in children

1. Symptoms and signs at the time of acute attack

The main symptoms of an acute asthma attack are cough, sputum production or sputum sound, asthma, dyspnea, chest tightness, etc. Typical presentation is episodic expiratory dyspnea with asthma sounds. Mild attacks are usually characterized by episodic cough and chest tightness. In severe attacks, the child is irritable, sits upright to breathe, shrugs his shoulders and breathes, his face is pale, his nose is fanning, his lips and nails are blue, his whole body is cold sweat, and his words cannot be spoken continuously. The three retractions are obvious, the chest and abdomen are abnormally moving, the chest contour is distended, the sound is clear when percussion, the exhalation is prolonged, and there is often asthma sound dominated by extensive expiration. When the airway is severely blocked, the sound of breathing decreases markedly, and the sound of breathing decreases or disappears. The heart rate is increased, signs such as jugular venous distension and pulsus paradoxus may appear, and severe cases can be complicated by heart failure, resulting in extensive medium and small vesicle sounds at the base of the lungs, hepatomegaly and edema. The symptoms of an asthma exacerbation can be relieved by bronchodilator medication or on their own between a few hours and a few days.

2. Intermittent symptoms and signs

Intermittent signs and symptoms mostly disappear. Some patients experience chest tightness and decreased breathing sounds on lung auscultation, but often do not have asthma.

5. How to prevent asthma in children

1. The prevalence rate reported by various countries is not completely consistent, but the survey results of various countries prove that the prevalence of childhood asthma has an upward trend, and the prevalence of childhood asthma in China is reported less, in 1988~1991, nearly 1 million children in 20 provinces and cities in the country, the total prevalence of asthma in urban and rural children is 0.9%~1.1%, but the prevalence rate is different in different places, in 1978, Shanghai Huashan Hospital surveyed 140,000 people, the prevalence rate of urban children was 1.9%, and the prevalence rate in rural areas was 1.3%.

2. The age is generally believed to be about 70~80% before the age of 5, and the data from Shanghai show that 75% of the patients under the age of 4 are affected, of which the earliest begins 3 months after birth; According to a survey in Xi'an, 50% of children with asthma develop before the age of 3; According to national and international reports, the prevalence is equal for males and females over the age of 10 to puberty.