It is time to launch the Alire a series of ideas about the return to school or college, to know why a reality. The reality is that health services will see an increase in asthma attacks in children and adolescents, from the months of September and October and this is a why, rather. many causes that now address:
In summer, the weather, decrease asthma symptoms, and consequently lower his guard and a certain tendency to suppress the control treatment. People with asthma and his family believe that when symptoms have subsided, and asthma is cured or did not need medication to be taken daily and produce many dropouts. This abandonment of controller medication can encourage relapse.
The incidence of respiratory infections has declined to almost nothing during the summer, increasing again when esneñanza centers are filled with students and easier transmission of viral colds being crowded into classes.
respiratory viruses such as rhinoviruses and common cold viruses are present in the mucus of the students and these viruses are responsible for the reactivation of the symptoms of asthma, since they are direct triggers. It is estimated that 80 percent of asthma exacerbations in childhood and adolescence may be associated with infection prior respiratory viruses.
In the summer months the school has been closed and the possibility of more dust when cleaning or have been used irritants to the airways, with the risk of asthma attack.
In September starts to increase humidity to improve the conditions for the proliferation of mites (which nest in house dust) and Alternaria (environmental fungus) and students with sensitization to these allergens experience inflammation of the bronchi .
When classes begin, they also begin sports and physical education in many cases have been interrupted by the summer recess. The exercise becomes a trigger for asthma attacks, especially when inflammation of the bronchi are present, due to the factors listed above.
In short, this increase is multifactorial: they enter the fall season with little control treatment or absent, increased respiratory infections and "allergies" by mites and fungi and environmental control at school, where they spend 5 to 7 hours each day, is often inferior to their homes, plus all the increased activity.
What can be done to reduce the risk of reactivation of asthma in the back to class?
a) is to ensure that appropriate preventive medication. If
had suspended during the summer should see your doctor to review and assess the reintroduction of preventive treatment.
b) Talk to the direction of the school or college at the beginning of the course , reporting the status of your son or daughter and the need to protect the school environment. This should be put in contact with other parents or through the Association of Parents of Pupils (AMPA) and claim a basic standard for respiratory hygiene school:
- Prohibit smoking in all school
- that classrooms are cleaned with substances that irritate the airways, the airing
- classrooms when students are absent. That
- not use loose chalk dust.
- That the books are closed by glass doors in bookstores.
- to avoid having carpets and rugs that collect dust
c) To prevent exercise-induced asthma.
- preheating before exercise
- Avoid sudden changes of environment.
- Inhale through your nose and exhale through the mouth, while exercising. It should warm the air you breathe through your breath nasal.
- must not forget that the daily preventative therapy can control the response to exercise most asmáticos.Aunque in principle can and should practice the one you like, select the sport that originated fewer symptoms.
- Avoid exercise during a flare-active
- Allow students to change clothes after sport or strenuous physical activities.
- medication before exercise. If symptoms occur with exercise can be another effective measure to administer a medication prior to exercise and more effective for it is inhaled salbutamol or terbutaline, but there are others who can tell the doctor.
hope all these tips are useful for the educational community and serve to encourage "put the batteries" in the control of asthma, in partnership with their pediatricians, family physicians and nurse educators from asthma.
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