The weather has gotten warmer. We are making holiday plans now. So, should children with asthma take their medications during the holiday season? What path should be followed? These questions come to the fore with the summer and answers are sought.
One of today's important diseases is asthma. Asthma disease manifests itself with symptoms such as frequent cough, shortness of breath, wheezing in the lungs, and cough or wheezing after exercise. Children diagnosed with asthma use asthma medications prescribed by experts. Asthma medications are of two types: reliever and curative. Relievers should only be used when there is cough and wheezing, and their effect is to relieve these symptoms. Healing drugs repair damaged areas in the bronchi. It prevents the symptoms in the child.
Children who are diagnosed and treated by Pediatric Allergists use these medications throughout the winter. Because they often get flu infections during the winter. Flu infections are the most important cause of symptoms in children with asthma.
Especially children with house dust mite allergies often get sick because they stay indoors during the winter. Asthma symptoms occur frequently in children because the child stays indoors and the winter months are the period when house dust mites are at their highest. Later, in the spring, children with pollen-related asthma develop cough and shortness of breath, which are symptoms of asthma. When summer comes, that is, at the end of June, allergens decrease and the risk of flu infection disappears.
Due to the fact that the risk of flu infection is very low in the summer period and the amount of allergens decreases very much, children with asthma do not have many complaints during the summer period. For this reason, during the summer months, if the asthmatic child's disease is under control and your pediatric allergist deems it appropriate, asthma medications are usually discontinued. Because asthma goes on holiday in July. He doesn't come back from vacation until September. The child's body rests during the summer. Until mid-September, only medications that relieve symptoms such as cough or wheezing are used.
End Finally, asthma goes on vacation during the summer and, if deemed appropriate by your pediatric allergist, the use of asthma medications is stopped from the beginning of July to mid-September.
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