What is the risk of allergic bronchitis in children, and how to cure it?
More and more diseases, which used to be extremely rare, are now occurring more often. There are many reasons for this, but they can not unite and name the exact one often. That is why all that the patient and his family can do now is to take measures for prevention and treatment.
Until recently, we did not know that babies could have some "complicated" diseases. Mom, hearing from the doctor the diagnosis of "allergic bronchitis", usually hears such a name for the first time. But with the spread of allergies and various types of it all the more often there is such a disease.
Causes of the disease
Where does allergic bronchitis occur in children? Its nature is the same as that of normal allergy, but the reaction of the organism in this case is accompanied by a cough. Children are the most frequent victims of such a disease.
In adults, it is found at times less often.
In fact, it's just an individual manifestation of allergy in a single person.
Allergy sufferers in their attacks feel different:
- strong rashes are possible;
- sometimes there are large spots all over the body;
- can also be watered by the eyes;
- and there may be a cough, which is what is being talked about.
Allergic bronchitis in children is not an isolated disease, but an individual reaction to allergens. However, this fact is not very comforting to the child: there is nothing pleasant in frequent attacks of cough, exhausting the children's body, and sometimes depressing.
Knowing what the nature of the disease is, helps to cope with it. In this case, the parents have to fight with allergy. Its causes are known: immunity perceives a product as alien and is taken to push it out of the body, "survive".
This provokes inflammatory processes in the entire body;nerve endings are irritated, vessels are dilated. When the reaction of the immune system reaches a peak, cough appears - the nerve endings in the lungs are irritated to the limit.
Symptoms of the disease
When allergic bronchitis occurs in children, it is easily confused with the usual. Despite the fact that this is a manifestation of the reaction to an allergen, some doctors consider this disease to be a type of bronchitis.
It also manifests itself as a cough: first rare, then passing into a constant, to the sores in the throat. By itself, it sounds the same as simple. Feelings are also almost identical. When there are physical exertions there are shortness of breath.
However, there is also a feature inherent in this bronchitis - it is an increased sweating. Babies can also have whimsical behavior, increased irritability, and sometimes weakness.
As a rule, if parents have not seen before in their child of allergy symptoms, then for a long time they may think that they have a cold or bronchitis. Typically, people treat such diseases at home, with pills, and therefore they do not go to the clinic for a diagnosis until they realize that there is no sense in treating the past treatment.
In the end it turns out that it was an allergic bronchitis: the symptoms of which could not be recognized on time. Then it is necessary to urgently start treatment, and not to stuff the baby with pills.
If allergic bronchitis occurs in children, treatment should be carried out as soon as possible. No, the heavy form will not develop in a short time - however, why so torment him with eternal attacks?
Although if very long time not to treat - a couple of months and more - you can earn bronchial asthma, and this is the topic of another plane, much more serious. Also, chronic bronchitis in children can develop. It's not as scary as asthma, but it does not bode well. In any case, you can not pull here.
How to treat
If a child has allergic bronchitis - treatment will be long. Because, as a rule, you need to eliminate the reasons. And they lurk not just in allergens.
After all, the perception of the body "not like everyone else" can have deep roots, for example:
- strong antibiotic treatment of another disease;
- increased skin sensitivity;
- if this is a product, then its overeating in the past.
And this is not the whole list. In any case, how to treat an allergy, can establish only a doctor, since each case is individual.