Check out the causes and symptoms of bronchial asthma, find out how signs you can suspect the attack of bronchial asthma in a child.
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A man feels great, but suddenly his breathing makes it difficult, he feels silent in the chest, and then a characteristic whistle appears when exhaling. This is not a description of the thriller fragment, but a typical example of an attack of bronchial asthma — Diseases from which only in our country suffer 5.6-12.1% of children and 5.6-7.3% of adults.
A little bit about bronchial asthma and its causes
Bronchial asthma is called chronic inflammation of the respiratory tract, in which the bronchi is overly narrowed in response to the action of various stimuli. It causes shortness of breath and characteristic whistling breath. In children, the first attacks of asthma are usually fixed at the age of 0.5-5 years, and in adults — 27-30 years old. If the disease manifested itself in childhood, the child has a good chance «grow» disease.
Call a clear cause of bronchial asthma difficult. Modern researchers believe that this disease is caused by a complex of factors. All of them can be consecrated to two groups: external and internal.
To the inner, that is, the peculiarities of the organism itself include:
- Genetic predisposition. If one or both parents are sick of asthma, the chances of birth of a child, prone to the disease, very high.
- Obesity. Overweight contributes to the development of bronchial asthma.
- Floor. Among children up to 14 years old, the number of asthmatics boys is 2 times higher than the number of asmatics girls. In adults, the opposite: women are more likely to suffer from asthma than men. The explanation of this pattern, scientists have not yet found.
External factors play an important role in the development of the disease. That is why representatives of some professions (bakers, artists, agricultural workers, welders, persons engaged in the production of plastics, food, meat processing) are susceptible to increased risk of bronchial asthma. And nothing «Professional» Asthma accounts for 10% of all cases of disease development in adulthood. The main external factors playing a role in the appearance of asthma are:
- the presence of allergies and regular contact with allergens;
- frequent respiratory infections;
- smoking tobacco;
- Work with materials that contribute to the development of bronchial asthma: wood and food dust, watering animals, feathers, latex, formaldehyde, platinum salts, vanadium, nickel, etc.;
- Availability at the workplace of ticks, mushrooms of the kind Aspergillus, pollen;
- life in conditions of air pollution;
- Artificial feeding of children, disadvantage in the diet of vegetables, fruits and fatty varieties of fish.
Symptoms of bronchial asthma
The disease is manifested in the form of attacks. They can be very rare (1-2 times a year), and can manifest itself regularly, especially with constant contact with a specific stimulus. With asthma, the symptoms are quite characteristic:
- dyspnea;
- increased chest;
- whistling breathing;
- When listening to the lungs — wheezing;
- cough;
- sputum.
Cough with cough cut bronchial asthma — the main one and sometimes the only symptom. Usually it is accompanied by a wet wet. Characteristic feature of such cough — Strengthening at night.
It is very important to trace the pattern of symptoms. This will help the doctor not only when setting the correct diagnosis, but also tells the prevention options for the disease. For example, you can pay attention to the fact that the signs of asthma have a child manifest after visiting a classmate who has a cat. Or exacerbation begins after wiping dust. It is not difficult to conclude that the cat and dust — These are provoking factors. The symptoms of bronchial asthma in children are often manifested 5-10 minutes after exercise, and after another 30-45 minutes, they independently disappear.
