What to do if your child is holding his breath

Many of our parents and friends are particularly worried about children suffering from breath-holding. Because many parents and friends do not understand the reasons for their children's breath-holding, it is very difficult to treat the disease. They waste the best time for treatment and spend huge amounts of medical expenses but still fail to get good results. It is very necessary to understand the root cause of the disease and carry out targeted treatment. Let's briefly describe the treatment methods for children's breath-holding.

1 (1) When a child has a breath-holding attack, you should remain calm and take care to protect the child from falling and avoid excessive tension and attention.

(2) Change parenting methods, enhance children’s adaptability, and pay attention to cultivating a sound personality. As parents, we should be good at guiding our children and avoid beating or scolding them to reduce the chances of an attack.

(3) Avoid sudden and unexpected mental stimulation and reduce various emotional triggers.

(4) As the child grows older, this situation will gradually decrease. Generally, it will disappear on its own after the age of 5, so there is generally no need for drug treatment. For those who have frequent attacks, in addition to psychotherapy, small doses of diazepam can be given orally to stabilize the excited emotions and gradually reduce the attacks.

2. Hyperventilation syndrome is a syndrome caused by excessive crying and making noise, which leads to metabolic disorders in the body. Clinically, it mostly occurs in infants and young children, and they often show symptoms such as convulsions of hands and feet, pale complexion, and rapid breathing. Some may also have abnormal sensations, manifested as numbness of the face, hands and feet. In severe cases, they may have blurred vision, clenched jaws and eyes. Children often complain of chest pain and shortness of breath, and occasionally have symptoms of impaired consciousness and whole body tremors. Because the onset is sudden and the condition seems serious, people are often puzzled. In fact, these symptoms are all related to the imbalance of acid-base in the human body. The reason is that when a person is sick, he or she hyperventilates, resulting in excessive discharge of carbon dioxide in the body, causing respiratory alkali poisoning.

The condition of children holding their breath is quite serious. If it is not treated promptly and effectively, it will cause certain harm to the physical health of our children. We should actively go to authoritative hospitals and be treated by authoritative doctors, which can help our children recover their physical health faster and live a happy and happy life.