Asthma in Children
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Asthma is the most common chronic childhood disease. But as common as the sickness can be, parents of asthmatic children are mostly uninformed or mostly, misinformed of how to deal with the disease.
Prone to asthma are children living in the big cities. This is mainly because of air pollution. Pollutants are highly concentrated in these areas. In most rural areas, on the other hand poses risk for asthma because of certain allergens coming from cockroaches. So the best way to prevent this is to keep a healthy household by cleaning the house and keep pests away. Second hand smoking greatly increases risk of children developing asthma in the early stages of childhood. But medicine has evolved and learned how to control and eventually cure the disease. The important key is to follow religiously with the medication. Most of reported emergency visits by children with asthma almost always are preventable, if they would just drink their medicine according to the doctor’s prescription.