Asthma is the most common serious chronic childhood disease. It is a chronic inflammatory disease of the lungs and airways — the tubes that bring air to the lungs. If your baby has asthma, these airways are irritated and swollen, and produce more mucus which narrows these breathing tubes and can affect his ability to breathe and lead a normal, healthy life. He may breathe rapidly, cough, wheeze, or whistle as his breath is forced through the narrowed airways.

Exposure to allergens such as pollens, or animal dander can trigger or worsen symptoms in some children with asthma. This condition is referred to as allergic asthma. Other possible triggers include cold air, viral infections (such as the common cold), tobacco smoke, and other air pollutants. Some children only get attacks when they have a cold or other upper respiratory infection, while others have an attack after coming into contact with an allergen or with cigarette smoke.
If the child often coughs and wheezes after running or playing etc, he may have what's called exercise-induced asthma.

SYMPTOMS:

During an asthmatic attack, the child may breathe rapidly, cough, wheeze, or whistle .It can be noticed as child’s nostrils flare, the skin around his ribs suck in with each breath, or his skin start to turn blue. Serious symptoms of attack need immediate medical attention.
Other conditions like a viral respiratory infection can also cause wheezing or wheezing-like sounds. However, if the child coughs frequently and has allergies or eczema, and if there is a family history of asthma and allergies or eczema, there’s a good chance that your child can develop asthma. Children who were exposed just before or after birth to tobacco smoke are also more prone to asthma.

HOMOEOPATHIC APPROACH

Some systems of medicine advocate Anti-histamines to cure the all forms of allergies. Homoeopathy believes that such drugs merely suppress or palliate the allergy and rarely cure it.
Homoeopathy is a science that does not depend only on the diagnosis of the diseases. For most of the other therapeutic sciences treatment depends only on diagnosis. In Homeopathy equal importance is given to the patient as well as his suffering. This means when other sciences aim at treating Disease in Man, Homoeopathic science at the very inception, has been devised to treat the Man in disease. In simple terms Homeopathy aims to treat the inner man that is his immune system thereby treating the root cause of his disease, which is a weak immune system. The system of homoeopathy works on the principle of taking every patient as a different entity with different medicine based on the symptoms therefore, a doctor should be consulted before taking medicines.

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