Disease Management

Environmental cleanliness is one of the key to prevent children from asthma. A recent study reported that exposure to pollution and dust from the infant may increase the risk of asthma at the age of three years.

Asthma is known as a disease is not contagious, but can be derived. That is, if one or both parents suffer from asthma, chances are his son also had asthma or take “talent” asthma.

The good news, “talent” is not going to manifest into asthma if pencetusnya factor avoided. Well, the factors that can trigger asthma can be diverse and different in each person, such as food and dust. Medical experts believe that asthma is strongly influenced environmental cleanliness. The more dirty air and the surrounding environment, the more easily the children experienced allergic airway inflammation which then triggered.

An American study reported that children from infants often traffic pollution exposure and higher risk endotoxin have asthma. Endotoxin is a component of bacterial toxins that are (poison), which can trigger the immune system response someone. Well, this endotoxin was also found in dust in the room.

In this latest study, the research team from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine found that there mengik at 36 percent of children aged three years when the baby is often exposed to air pollution particles and endotoxins in the dust. Mengik is loud sound heard when breathing. Conditions that are also often referred to these ends is the beginning marker of asthma and lung disorders.

Mengik symptoms seen in 11 percent of children who are exposed infants allergen (allergy triggers) low-yield inside and outside the room. While children who are exposed to traffic pollution and high levels of indoor endotoxins higher figure, namely 18 percent. Exposure to endotoxin alone showed less impact on children.

“There is a clear link between exposure to particle air pollution and traffic mengik endotoxin with protracted emergence as a three-year-old child,” said research team leader, Patrick Ryan.

Ryan added, the two sources of this exposure (especially if high levels) can synergize each other so that the long-term exposure may harm lung health of children. Lung health disorders in children usually take up to children aged 18 or 20 years.

“The earlier children are exposed to particle pollution, the greater the impact on long-term health,” said Ryan, whose research results will be published in the American Journal of Respitaroty and Critical Care Medicine, early December.

Compared with lung disease acquired in adulthood, pulmonary disorders due to early exposure to endotoxin and traffic pollution can be more dangerous. Moreover, if this happens since the baby, the process of formation of antibodies immature children become more prone to respiratory allergies. Although initially just a shortness of breath, inflammation or inflammatory processes that continue to accumulate causing disease more severe asthma when the children hit.

Lung specialist from Friendship Hospital Jakarta, Budhi Dr. Space PhD, says that an asthma can be based on allergic airway which then causes inflammation. Manifestations can be diverse and in any organ. For example a person who ate seafood at the skin becomes red, meaning that he was allergic manifestations in the skin. Another example, if there are people who every morning sneezing rubbed with a runny nose, meaning the location of allergy in the nasal cavity.

“Asthma can not be cured, but can be controlled and prevented by avoiding kekambuhannya factors pencetusnya. If there are family members who had asthma, environmental hygiene should really guarded,” Budhi advice.

Mother Depression, Asthma Children often relapse

Mother is the “closest friends” children from infancy. If the mother was happy, too happy child. When the mother is sad or angry, children can suffer. Well, if you are a mother who has a child with asthma, as much as possible avoid conditions that can trigger stress and depression. What article?

A recent study conducted research team from The Johns Hopkins Children’s Center reveals America, mothers experienced depression can worsen the condition of the child’s asthma.

Study involving 262 black participants and their mothers this child, found that children whose mothers experienced more symptoms of depression, are also more often showed symptoms of asthma. So did the children of mothers with fewer depressive symptoms are also more rarely have an asthma relapse.

Studies will be published in the Journal of Pediatric Psychology is deliberately focused on blacks. The problem, prevalence and incidence of asthma attacks on black race is higher than whites.

Kristin Riekert incorporated in this research investigation team, the findings also reveal the fact “unique” relationship between the number of associated maternal depression and the increased frequency of asthma symptoms in children. When the degree of maternal depression affect a child’s asthma symptoms, this was not true for the opposite. This indicates that maternal depression is a risk factor that stood alone, which can predict a series of symptoms of asthma in children. Initially thought Riekert this study will deal with the situation: “Where Oldest chicken eggs equal?”.

“In fact, the fact that maternal depression is not influenced by the frequency of occurrence of asthma symptoms in children makes us wonder, but both missed the factors which actually came first,” says child psychologist from Johns Hopkins Research Center’s Adherence.

Depression, a disorder characterized natural feelings of grief and melancholy, also often led to fatigue, memory loss and concentration problems. When a depressed mother, his spirit of caring for asthmatic children (such as reminding to take medicine every day and consult a doctor) can also be decreased.

“My mother is the backbone to implement the mandated physician instructions in the routine care of asthma children. However, if depressed mothers, this mandate can not be done so that children come to be victims and suffer,” said the head of the research team Michiko Otsuki

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