Symptoms of lying down asthma in children

summary

Asthma is a kind of reversible and obstructive respiratory disease, which is often repeated and difficult to be completely cured, mainly manifested as repeated cough, wheezing and dyspnea, accompanied by airway hyperresponsiveness. And the disease is a serious impact on children's physical and mental health of common chronic respiratory disease, the complication rate is very high, children lying flat asthma symptoms tell you

Symptoms of lying down asthma in children

First, the symptoms of onset. Children usually have respiratory tract infection one or two days before the onset of the disease, which is similar to general bronchitis. However, the onset of the disease in older children is more acute, and most of them break out at night, which is closely related to the climate and the causes of night changes, It also has an essential relationship with indoor dust and mites that may accumulate more and adrenaline secretion is less at night. A few hours or a day after the attack, the patient's condition will be somewhat relieved.

Second, the symptoms of attack. When the attack occurs, children usually show dyspnea and irritability, and often can't lie on their back. When they sit, they will shrug their shoulders, and sometimes the wheezing sound can be transmitted to the outside. Pale complexion, cyanosis of lips and nails, even cold sweat drenched Chun, face fear uneasiness, showing a very serious situation, this time should be more attention, timely treatment. At the beginning of the onset, there may be only cough, and then the symptoms gradually worsen to wheezing. With the relief of bronchospasm, viscous white sputum is discharged, and breathing gradually subsides. Some patients cough will lead to upper abdominal muscle pain, or accompanied by fever symptoms. The sign of the chest is chest depression and other three concave signs. When exhaling, due to the increased internal pressure of the chest, the protrusion can be seen in the suprasternal concave and intercostal space, and the jugular vein is significantly distended. In more severe patients, there is almost no sound absorption in both lungs, and the right heart load increases due to pulmonary artery spasm, which may lead to hypoxia and heart failure.

Third, intermittent symptoms in attack period. This kind of patients do not have any difficulty in breathing, the appearance looks like normal children, but they will feel chest discomfort, because there are factors that lead to bronchial infection, when the infection to the outside world, there will be an immediate outbreak of asthma. The sputum of children with bronchial asthma is generally colorless, viscous and transparent, sometimes there will be some bubbles, but the occurrence of infection will lead to sputum yellowing, and it is found that there are a lot of eosinophils in the sputum after the hospital instrument examination. Most children's sputum is not easy to cough up, the amount is relatively small, when the characteristics of remission, sputum will also have a significant improvement.

matters needing attention

Asthma patients with acute attack, the diet to flow juice or half flow juice is appropriate, seasoning to light delicious, avoid cold drink cold food. Diet to eat more meals, not too full, there are many attacks caused by too full. Acute attack, especially in patients with a long period of continuous attack, often loses a lot of water due to sweating, which is easy to make phlegm sticky and unable to cough up smoothly, blocking the airway.