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Respiratory disease, asthma can attack anyone, including children. Children with asthma often have difficulty breathing due to inflammation or infection in the respiratory tract or lungs.

Asthma itself is a respiratory disease that basically occurs due to inflammation. As a result of the inflammatory process, symptoms can occur such as narrowing of the airways, wheezing, coughing with a lot of mucus, to shortness of breath.

What are the symptoms of asthma in children?

Generally, children with asthma will show symptoms before entering school age or around 5-6 years. But this can happen differently in each child. So there is a possibility that asthma symptoms in children are found in the baby's age range.

Symptoms of asthma in children that can occur is a cough that appears repeatedly. However, this cough that appears is usually not due to an infection in the child's body because the child does not have fever symptoms which usually occur when the child is infected with certain diseases. In addition, other symptoms that can arise are wheezing or wheezing. Both of these symptoms are symptoms that are often found and are usually often recognized by parents so that prevention or treatment can be done quickly.

Parents need to be very understanding if these symptoms occur. For example, if a child's asthma symptoms appear in the form of a persistent cough, then people need to recognize the nature of the cough. Is the cough affected by a certain time or area before symptoms occur. In addition, parents also need to check the food that is usually consumed by children. If the cough occurs more often and feels heavier, the more likely the characteristic cough symptoms are to lead to asthma symptoms.

In addition to monitoring through symptoms, parents also need to pay attention to whether asthma is mild or severe. Because, if asthma symptoms appear repeatedly and interfere with daily activities, it is highly recommended to take further treatment. This is intended so that the quality of life of the child is not disturbed. For example, if the child often has a severe cough that causes vomiting, it can certainly interfere with the child's nutritional intake. Therefore, parents need to take appropriate anticipatory steps.

How to detect asthma in children

To detect asthma in children can be done in various ways. This of course must be adjusted to the age of the child. If the child is old enough, the diagnosis can be made by examining lung function or spirometry tests with an instrument known as a spirometer. However, if the age is still relatively small, it can be diagnosed through the characteristics of the symptoms you have. This is because the lungs at a child's age can still develop. However, if from the beginning of the child's development symptoms have been seen and treatment is not immediately carried out, it can cause impaired lung function growth which causes respiratory problems as an adult child.

Therefore, if your child is already showing some of the symptoms of asthma, immediately take treatment according to the doctor's advice. Do not let the developmental disorders of lung function in children get worse until treatment will be difficult when complications occur in adulthood. Consult all your child's complaints with pediatricians and pulmonary specialists at Royal Progress Hospital.