Thursday, March 6, 2008

Bronchial asthma in children which clinical performance?

Young children are not in detail before the asthma attack some indication of symptoms, so most dramatic performance for the onset, Some may first have upper respiratory tract infections or bronchitis symptoms. According to illness at the onset, can be divided into mild, moderate and severe three species. Mild asthma at the beginning is often the only irritating cough and wheezing a little noise, or a similar foreign bodies caused by the inhalation of choking. Meanwhile had mild asthma, with oral medication can be rapidly eased, or no treatment can alleviate their own. Moderate, dry cough at the beginning, shortly after the cough gradually increasing, and there are more white bubble-like mucus plugs, gradually aggravated asthma, accompanied by a high-profile sexual breath music wheezing. At this time, the performance offered emotional restlessness, not recumbent, older children - to rise up in the hands and knees, or arm placed in the table. The first movements of the arm; Infant-parents cling to the first side and the parents shoulders, shoulders sensational, respiratory rate increased, paleness. Some sick child showed red, alar expansion and fans, sweating, or a breath sexual groaning, intercostal its neck and soft tissue depression, chest swollen Man, can hear both sides of the chest wheezing sound more spontaneous delivery both sides of the chest is drum sound, Heart sector voiced little circles, liver voiced drop zone. Inability to control disease remission, often progressive development with severe asthma. At this time, apart from the above cases, we can see Asthmatic increased hypoxia may appear obvious when cyanosis. If a patient spirit obvious fatigue, irregular breathing slow down, breathe shallow, but also reduce coughing, both sides of the chest breathing almost hear the sound, or the performance of respiratory failure, and we should pay serious attention to. In addition, because of asthma and the causes of allergenic species of different clinical manifestations are slightly different. If caused by infection, often sick child fever, and can hear the lungs moist rales; Such as exogenous asthma, attack before it nose and eye itching, tearing, runny nose, sneezing, coughing, etc.; on food allergies, in addition to asthma, also have lips, face or limbs and body edema, or vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain and numbness, and so on.

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