Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Asthma care to family well

Bronchial asthma, or asthma, is a common respiratory disease. Patients usually sudden chest tightness, coughing and irritation in breath-based wheezing with the sound of breathing difficulties. Recurrent disease for patients with physical and mental development, the impact of life brings about a lot of work. Can no cure for asthma? Treatment which required the attention of the problem? How to prevent it? As the children's recurrent asthma, persistent Buyu, so that in the treatment of asthma, the most critical aspect of family health care. Doctors in the treatment of asthma, effective treatment for asthma, not only in children with the active support and more parents need to be given adequate attention. Health care workers should establish a positive relationship between the partners, instead of passively for the treatment of sick children and their parents to participate in the treatment of the initiative. In general, family health care should pay attention to the following: First of all, attention to the living room environment, it is necessary to keep indoor air fresh, from time to time ventilation. To maintain room temperature to 22 ~ 25 ℃ is appropriate. To maintain a certain indoor humidity, the best relative humidity of 50% to 60% better, inhaling moist air is conducive to the mucous membrane of respiratory cilia play a normal motor function. Can always sprinkle some water on the ground or in delaying; winter can be wet cloth on the heating; Hugai can be opened to allow water to keep boiling; conditional air humidifier can be used to increase indoor humidity. In addition, we must always clean indoor dust, not the best pet; to be taken to avoid passive smoking in children, and so on. Second, pay attention to food choices, especially in children with asthma, should the supply of nutritious, light digestible food, such as lotus root starch, milk, custard, rice, and so on. Usually it must make sure that nutrition and food intake, or too greasy to eat less sweet food, avoid eating cold food. If it should allergic to certain food taboos, so as not to trigger an asthma attack. Third, the long-term inhaled corticosteroids for the prevention of an asthma attack have a positive effect, which is currently the best way to the treatment of asthma. Some parents worry that there are side effects of hormones, so that children do not want to tie in with the treatment of disease caused by recurrent. In fact, as long as the appropriate dose and the right to master the methods of treatment, the role of non-performing very small. But note that immediately after inhaling steroids use mouthwash in cold water to prevent drug residue in the mouth and throat to stimulate the Mucosal caused local adverse reactions, such as candida infections, hoarse voice or upper respiratory discomfort, or swallow after stomach Systemic reaction caused by intestinal absorption. Adhere to the low-dose oral theophylline family therapy is an important part of asthma. In particular, sustained and controlled release formulation of theophylline, day and night so that the blood concentration of theophylline stable, lasting effects, better efficacy. The need to pay attention to when taking theophylline sustained-release tablets can not be crushed or spit chewing only scratches along the break; theophylline controlled-release capsules should be swallowed whole or in capsules of pellets in the back half tablespoon of warm water swallow, In order to ensure efficacy. In addition, parents should supervise or help children with asthma diary records, this is the strengthening of asthma in children with self-monitoring and self-management ability to raise an effective way. The records include daily weather conditions, learning and to participate in extra-curricular activities, whether or not adhere to medication, and whether or not an asthma attack, and other incentives, regularly measured and recorded the largest peak expiratory flow rate (that is, full of gas in the chest after the forced expiratory time Gas through the airway's the fastest rate). By monitoring changes in the condition to master the law of attack, doctors may have children with reliable information so as to develop individualized treatment programs. At the same time, the diary records that way, children can also enhance the confidence to overcome the disease.

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