irritant for children during weather fluctuations
Family Medicine and Allergy Consultant, Dr. Khaled Obaid Bawaked, called on parents to prevent their children with asthma from leaving at the time of dust, indicating that the dust wave and weather fluctuations in some areas should be dealt with carefully, as it is one of the most important causes of asthma irritation.
He said that asthma is described as a chronic disease that spreads remarkably well in society, as the rate of its prevalence varies from one region to another due to different weather factors, as the proportion increases in very cold cities and dry areas, while this percentage decreases in humid coastal cities, recording four percent. This is in contrast to the global rate, which ranges between 5% and 10%.
Dr. Bawaked pointed out that asthma is a chronic inflammation of the membranes lining the airways in the lungs, which causes an increase in their sensitivity to any irritant (such as dust, smoking, and others) and leads to the constriction and narrowing of these airways, and the retention of large amounts of air inside the chest, but this narrowing is expandable. When using appropriate treatment.
Regarding the causes of the disease, Dr. Bawaked continues that there is a difference between the cause and the irritant of the disease. The first is that which leads to the occurrence of asthma in a healthy person, while the irritants of the disease are substances that lead to the occurrence of an asthma attack in a person who has asthma in the first place. There are some theories that attribute the causes of the disease to genetic factors.
Dr. Bawaked added that asthma affects all ages of children, adults and the elderly, and spreads more in childhood, followed by adults at the beginning of the third decade of life, and the severity of the disease usually subsides in children as they approach puberty, but there is no specific rule that explains the child whose condition will improve from the child who remains the same.
Dr. Bawaked takes the side of the drugs used in treatment, saying: Treatment is divided into:
Bronchodilators, which lead to relaxation of the muscles surrounding the airways, expansion of the airways, preventing the secretion of chemicals (such as histamine), and therefore they are often used when necessary and needed, and they work immediately after use and therefore taken when symptoms appear, such as coughing, congestion, chest tightness or wheezing the chest.
Preventive (preventive) medicines for the return of seizures, which work by reducing chronic inflammation in the wall of the air passages, and some of them need several weeks to take effect and therefore must be continued regularly several times a day for long periods according to the instructions of the attending physician, regardless of the presence of symptoms or not, to be able to Medicines reduce inflammation in the airways, and the common mistake of many patients is that they stop this medicine when the symptoms disappear and do not continue using it, while the chronic infections mentioned are still present and the ability to return seizures also exists, and therefore when exposed to any irritant, the attacks return as they were.
Cortisone: There is fear of using cortisone, and the fact of the matter is that if it is used according to the instructions of the specialist, it has very impressive results in treating the disease, and cortisone pills are taken to treat severe cases and under direct medical supervision.
Nebulizers used in treatment: Nebulizers are the best treatment for asthma, and therefore they are better than syrup, pills, and needles for several considerations, because they go directly to the place of the disease (the lung) and therefore their effect is direct and fast, and the dose of the nebulizer is low and therefore it is very rare to cause side effects.
