Children and Asthma.
One day I find out that my 1 year old daughter have difficulties in breathing. I have no idea why. So I and my wife bring her to see a doctor. The doctor said my daughter have wheezing and give her treatment by putting mask on her nose and mouth and the next thing I saw smoke and it's make me and my wife uncomfortable. During that time I did not know what is wheezing, what is inhaler or what is nebulizer. I really don't know.
The doctor did explain to us but I have no confident with that doctor. Actually the clinic that I use to visit is close on that day and my daughter really have breath difficulties, so I just go to any clinic that open on that day.
That was a scary experience, from that day we know that our daughter has asthma. From that day almost every year my daughter need to admit to hospital because of asthma.
Now my daughter is 7 years old and start schooling. We have nebulizer machine in our house and we have gone through many things about asthma. So I decide to create this blog about asthma children to give what I know and experience with asthma children. I'm not medical people, I'm Computer Network guy.
So I start with asthma definition. This one I took from
http://asthma.about.com/od/asthmabasics/p/whatisasthmahub.htm
The definition as below.
Asthma is a chronic disease that affects your breathing. What happens is that your airways become inflamed and irritated in reaction to some kind of substance or situation, which is called a trigger. Your airways are the tubes that carry air and oxygen into and out of your body.
Your respiratory system includes your lungs and small tubes that branch out, called airways. These tubes become smaller and smaller until they form tiny sacs at the end called alveoli. Bands of muscle cover the bronchial tubes all the way down through the alveoli.
More information about asthma you can read there.
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Children and Asthma
