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What is  bronchial asthma?
Bronchial asthma is a disease caused by increased reactivity of the airways to various stimuli is characterized by a narrowing of the airways accompanied by an excessive discharge of mucus glands in the walls of the airways, causing symptoms of cough, wheezing and oppression. Airway constriction can recover and return to normal spontaneously, with or without medication.

In short, if you cough or shortness of breath several times for the same reason, or at the same time, or in the same situation, and the intermittent use of drugs or not, so we talk like asthma.

We do not know interferes with the term “asthma”. Because if our children are recurrent cough for many years what we call “chronic cough” or “bronchitis” and it’s handling so wrong. When asthma is called bronchitis, the most important treatment is antibiotics, but asthma does not need antibiotics. Antibiotics kill the good bacteria bronchitis, but there is no benefit from the treatment of asthma.

Asthma can not be cured, but can be controlled. So, no symptoms of asthma, they can work or play without limited. Use any drug just can be minimized, but never heavy attack, or abnormalities.

Why asthma occur?
The onset of asthma symptoms such as cough, shortness of breath can be caused by factors that are not related, such as cold air, pollution, changes in air pressure, psychological factors and fatigue.
Regardless of the basis of the onset of symptoms is the narrowing of the airways (bronchi), the airway surface swelling (edema bronchial) and excess mucus production (hyper).

What are the symptoms?
Asthma symptoms are shortness of breath and coughing repeatedly. To determine the severity of asthma attacks, it is also important to be aware of how often, long and extent of the attack. And how long the child is free from attack.

What to know the reason or time for your child’s activities before the attack. Consider, for example, air, cigarettes, food / beverage, dust, exercise, infections, drugs, and so on. Need to be made a note, which is useful to be known cause . In the family case, it is usually have a history of asthma or allergies.

How to deal?
Management There are two kinds, and both are equally important, depending on the severity of the attacks that occur.
First, non-pharmacological (non-medical)
1. Provide education to patients about what illness he/she had, so you can meet many of their illness.
2. Avoid the cause of an attack (the allergen), and control.
3. Relaxation exercises, control of emotions and do gymnastics or sports that are useful to strengthen the respiratory muscles, like swimming.
4. Physiotherapy, which makes the release of mucus easier.

Secondly, pharmacological (drugs)
1. Save your breath, such as salbutamol, aminophylline
2. Maintenance, such as prednisone, dexamethasone etc..
3. Mucus thinners, such as bromhexine, ambroxol etc.

We hope that this explanation may be helpful to enable it to cope with the disease, a wise and sensitive.

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