Know what asthma treatment is the right one.
Let's imagine that your child has just been diagnosed as having asthma. After the initial shock has passed, the first thing you will have to start thinking about the best possible asthma treatment available. No, that's the second thing. The first thing you have to do is stop panicking. With the right treatment and armed with the right knowledge, your child will be able to have a normal, happy life with their asthma under control.
Now, what types of asthma treatment are there? Your doctor
will most certainly show you two kinds; relievers and preventers.
Everybody who has asthma has a reliever. It is the typical inhaler
that is becoming extremely popular in most schools. Did I say
extremely popular? Make that alarmingly popular. You can tell
that asthma is reaching record levels just by the number of
reliever inhalers you see at schools these days. As their name
suggests, the job of the reliever is to relieve each and every
asthma symptom. There are side effects, though. Muscle shakes
could occur, or the heart beat could increase.
Preventers are also inhalers but these aren't so much for attacks
but to help to control the swelling and inflammation in the
airways. They also make the airways less susceptible to asthma
triggers (pollution, for example). They have to be taken every
day because the aim of the preventer is to build up a protective
effect in the sufferer. You can easily distinguish preventers
from relievers by their color. Relievers are blue whereas preventers
can be orange, brown or red. Although preventers contain a type
of artificial steroid found naturally in the body called Cortisone,
your kids are not going to develop huge muscles. It has nothing
to do with anabolic steroids. What could occur is that the user
might get a small mouth infection which is known as thrush.
Other known side effects of Cortisone are stunted growth,
weight gain, and infections are allowed to spread which wouldn't
otherwise. In some cases death (the worst side effect) occurs
if the medication is stopped very abruptly. Not something you'd
want to give your child, now is it?
As well as having the same side effects as the reliever, preventers
can also cause cataracts, diabetes, and mood swings. All in
all these asthma treatments
are probably not the best thing for your kids to be taking,
but there do exist other free, reliable, and above all safe
methods of preventing and even eliminating asthma.
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© Karon Beattie - http://www.cure-your-asthma.com
About the Author - Karon Beattie is a former asthma sufferer.
She is the author of several books including "Naturally
Free From Asthma" which describes how she eliminated her
own asthma. This
book has helped many other sufferers WorldWide do the same.
http://www.cure-your-asthma.com