How to correctly prevent children from suffering from asthma

In winter, as the weather changes suddenly and the temperature drops, asthma is a common disease among children in winter. However, sometimes many parents do not know enough about this disease, which makes it easy for their children to suffer from this disease. The fatal point, let the parenting experts explain it to us in detail below!

I remember there was a parent whose 9-year-old child kept breathing. When I asked her why she didn’t treat her child, she said no, it shouldn’t be a big deal!

I said, why wouldn’t it be a big deal? Asthma is also a disease, and it doesn’t seem to have any impact. You should know that if asthma is not treated effectively when children are young, the incidence rate in adulthood can be as low as 60%. In addition, once an acute attack of asthma occurs, it may be life-threatening if it is not treated in time.

Now she was anxious and asked, how should we treat it?

I took a look and found that her child was not serious and had thermal asthma. The main symptoms are fever, thirst, and vomiting yellow phlegm. Therefore, the treatment should focus on clearing the lungs, clearing phlegm, relieving cough and asthma, and just drink some Xian Sheng Ke Chuan Ning or Ji Zhi Zhi syrup. In addition, for thermal asthma where heat stagnates the lungs and stomach, the main focus should be on dredging the meridians. Rubbing the soles of the children's feet and the inside and outside of the calves can dredge the meridians, relieve internal heat, and relieve cough and asthma. You can also eat more fruits that clear away heat and moisturize the lungs, such as pears, pomelo, grapefruit, loquat, and lily, which have a good therapeutic effect on hot cough.

Asthma is a chronic inflammation of the respiratory tract that is prone to recurring attacks, leading to coughing, wheezing, chest tightness and difficulty breathing. Approximately 100 million people worldwide suffer from this disease, of which children account for a large proportion.

Genetic factors, bacterial and viral infections, and various allergens are the main causes of asthma in children. If not treated in time, it can easily lead to recurrence of the disease, and even induce emphysema, cor pulmonale and other serious diseases. complication. Since most children have relatively simple illnesses and are still in the growth and development stage, it is the best time to treat asthma. As long as they persist in treatment, many children can be cured after adolescence.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that there are two causes of asthma. One is internal causes: due to deficiency of lungs and spleen in children, the lungs are delicate and have poor ability to protect the outside world. The skin is not dense and is prone to external evils. The evils of wind-cold and wind-heat invade the human body through the fur or nose and mouth, blocking the lung meridians, causing the lung's function to be abnormal, causing lung qi to be unfavorable, and body fluid to condense into phlegm. Deficiency of spleen, poor transport and transformation ability, produces dampness and produces phlegm, which is stored in the lungs. Therefore, ancient doctors said that "the spleen is the source of phlegm, and the lungs are the organ that stores phlegm." The second is external causes: due to sudden changes in climate and cold temperature, evil spirits take advantage of the deficiency and enter the lung meridian to induce phlegm, causing phlegm to block the airway, and qi to reverse the phlegm and cause asthma. Generally speaking, the internal cause of asthma is phlegm, the external cause is external sensation, and the internal cause causes symptoms through external factors.

When an asthma attack occurs, "treat the symptoms when it is urgent". The treatment principle is to clear the lungs, resolve phlegm and calm asthma. The commonly used prescription is Maxing Shigan Decoction with flavors such as Tinglizi, perilla seeds, and Trichosanthes trichosanthes. , Houttuynia cordata, Fritillaria fritillary, silkworm, fried earthworm, loquat leaves.

Once asthma has stopped, treat the underlying cause. If the lung qi deficiency is obvious, the child often appears pale, tired, sweats profusely, and is prone to repeated colds. The treatment principle should be to nourish the lungs and strengthen the surface. If the spleen qi deficiency is obvious, the child often appears pale, eats little, has poor appetite, and is tired. For patients with fatigue, loose stools or heavy stools, the treatment principle should be to strengthen the spleen and resolve phlegm. If it is easily caused by allergic factors, the treatment principle should be to regulate the functions of the lungs, spleen and kidneys. By using this treatment to regulate the environment inside the human body and achieve a balance of yin and yang, it can improve one's own immunity and enhance resistance, which is the so-called root removal treatment.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that fish, shrimp, crab, meat and other fishy and greasy foods will produce phlegm, and children with allergies will have allergic reactions if they eat such foods. Spicy seasonings such as ginger, green onion, and pepper can irritate children's respiratory tract and make coughing and asthma worse. For children who often suffer from respiratory infections, coughs, and loss of appetite, in addition to necessary drug treatment, they can also use foods that strengthen the spleen and nourish the lungs, such as japonica rice, black fungus, white radish, lily, ginkgo, Polygonatum odorifera, and coix seed. wait. When a child has cough and asthma accompanied by fever, the body consumes too much water and should pay attention to replenishing water. You can drink more boiled water, rice soup and fresh juice. You also need to supplement eggs and vegetables to maintain balanced nutrition and improve immunity.

The triggering factors of asthma are directly related to cold, so the focus in the prevention and treatment of asthma should be to avoid catching cold and avoid eating cold food. As long as cold is tabooed, you rarely get sick. If you do get sick, drink garlic water as the main drink, and eat it with warm foods that regulate the spleen and stomach, nourish the kidneys, and nourish the lungs, and the symptoms can be controlled quickly.

Some parents abuse antibiotics whenever their children have asthma. In fact, this is very bad and can easily lead to the development of bacterial resistance and is also detrimental to the growth and development of their children.

Asthma is a chronic allergic inflammation of the airways. The airway inflammation in asthma is completely different from the usual inflammations such as pneumonia and pharyngitis. Pneumonia is caused by a relatively clear infectious pathogen, such as viruses, bacteria, etc. The airway inflammation in asthma is caused by allergic reactions. Most are caused by inhaling dust mites, pollen, cold air, etc., but only a small number of patients may be caused by bacterial infection.

The effect of external application of traditional Chinese medicine in treating children’s asthma is also very good. It can not only save children from the pain of taking medicine, but it is also simple and easy to use, without side effects, and children are happy to accept it.

Take an appropriate amount of grubs, peach kernels, almonds, anemarrhena, and pepper, grind them together into fine powder, mix it into a paste with egg white, divide it into 4 equal parts, and apply it to the Yongquan points on both sides of the child respectively. On the dorsum of the foot corresponding to the Yongquan point, or using ephedra, perilla seeds, aconite, dried ginger, white mustard seeds, etc. to make a medicinal pad vest, it can warm the lungs, dispel cold, resolve phlegm and relieve asthma.

The key to childhood asthma is prevention. Parents should prevent their children from catching colds in normal times, avoid wind and cold, and avoid allergens as much as possible. Children should go out as little as possible during pollen season, and wear masks when going out. Pay attention in daily life. For room hygiene, keep the indoor air fresh and circulating. The diet should be light and easy to digest. The spleen, lungs, and kidneys should be nourished in a coordinated manner. Children should not be picky or picky eaters. They should not eat irritating foods and drinks. They should drink more. water, and adhere to appropriate physical exercise to enhance body immunity.

Asthma is generally difficult to treat. For this disease, it is neither too big nor too small. Some parents often have the view that asthma does not need to be treated and that children will get better as they grow up. , in fact, this idea is extremely incorrect and will pose a direct threat to the child's life, so parents please take it seriously!