Children’s disease expert noted that the occurrence of asthma cases in children in summer is increasing year by year, and we must attach importance to parents. Study found that asthmatic children in the event of cold air, cold air or after ingestion of cold or frozen foods, will promote asthma attacks. Experts point out that many families will use air conditioning in summer, but for a child in terms of allergies, upper respiratory tract would be the cold air “attack”, easily added to an already high response in the state of tracheobronchial reflex spasm occurred, there cough, asthma. Therefore, from the perspective of child care, summer children’s asthma should prevent “cold” start.
Main symptoms:
Summer, children suffering from asthma, the main symptom was cough, often in the cold (eaten cold, into the air-conditioned room, etc.) suddenly array cough cases.
This cough is characterized by “cough three matrix”, that burst of early morning wake up cough, cough a while before going to sleep at night, wake up to the middle of the night still cough a while. The mild burst of coughing, dry cough without phlegm, cough and sometimes a little white froth mucus. Illness severe, or continuous burst a few minutes to half an hour cough, as if “machine guns.” While others like “whooping cough” cough flushed, tears flow of Qi. Furthermore, the cough may even eat the food will vomit out the stomach.
This cough is often repeated, there is no clear child asthma, lung auscultation and no wheeze, no fever, no signs of respiratory tract infection. In medicine known as cough variant asthma or allergen (allergy) cough.
Anti-”cold” 4 Tips
1, air temperature is not too low. It should be noted that the indoor temperature and outdoor temperature difference of no more than 5 ℃, can not let the children are facing the air conditioning outlet.
2, the child was sweating profusely from the outside good time back home, do not immediately enter the air-conditioned room, not to open the refrigerator pick up cold to drink. Can let the children first body with a towel to wipe away the sweat, drink some warm water, to be emotionally stable, then enjoy the air conditioning.
3, should be minimal for the children to eat cold. Children eat a lot of cold drinks in summer, is a “cold” stimulus. “Cold” for children with asthma is also a kind of allergy, asthma, no matter what the season is an important incentive.
4, air-conditioned rooms should pay attention to ventilation and cleaning. The use of air-conditioned room, the air is not thoroughly updated and circulation of air conditioners and dust accumulated in the virus may also trigger asthma, in foreign countries have long had the “air-conditioning-induced asthma” reported. Can be said that the summer air conditioning is induced asthma in children one of the main room every day, so a thorough cleaning air conditioning, ventilation time window.
In addition, parents should look for asthma specialists regularly inspect their children to receive timely guidance. To allow more kids to swimming, gymnastics and other physical exercise care in order to enhance physical fitness, reduce asthma attacks.