What to do if your child has cough and asthma

Once a child has asthma problems, it can be very dangerous. You need to know. If it is an asthma problem, it will often cause further discomfort to the patient and his family. And once you have asthma, it is often a dangerous disease. Children's cough and asthma need active treatment. So what should we do if children have cough and asthma?

Airway inflammation is a common feature of almost all types of asthma and is the basis of clinical symptoms and airway hyperresponsiveness. Airway inflammation is present at all stages of asthma. Although asthma cannot be cured at present, standardized treatment focusing on suppressing inflammation can control the clinical symptoms of asthma. An international study showed that the asthma control rate was close to 80% through fixed-dose escalation and maintenance treatment of fluticasone/salmeterol. Although the cost of controlling asthma may seem high from the perspective of patients and society, the cost of treating asthma incorrectly can be even higher.

1. Introduction to Commonly Used Drugs

Drugs for the treatment of asthma can be divided into controller drugs and reliever drugs.

Controller medications: These are medications that need to be taken every day for a long time. These drugs mainly maintain clinical control of asthma through anti-inflammatory effects, including inhaled glucocorticoids (hormones for short), systemic hormones, leukotriene modifiers, long-acting β2-receptor agonists (long-acting β2-receptor agonists, which must be used in combination with inhaled hormones), sustained-release theophylline, anti-IgE antibodies and other drugs that help reduce the dose of systemic hormones;

Relief medications: These are medications that are taken as needed. These drugs relieve asthma symptoms by rapidly relieving bronchospasm and include rapid-acting inhaled beta2-agonists, systemic steroids, inhaled anticholine drugs, short-acting theanolides, and short-acting oral beta2-agonists.

1. Hormones

Corticosteroids are the most effective drugs for controlling airway inflammation. The routes of administration include inhalation, oral administration and intravenous application, with inhalation being the preferred route.

(1) Inhalation administration: Inhaled hormones have a strong local anti-inflammatory effect. They are administered through the inhalation process, and the drug acts directly on the respiratory tract, so the required dose is smaller. Most of the drugs that enter the blood through the digestive tract and respiratory tract are inactivated by the liver, so there are fewer systemic adverse reactions.

Research results have shown that inhaled hormones can effectively relieve asthma symptoms, improve quality of life, improve lung function, reduce airway hyperresponsiveness, control airway inflammation, reduce the frequency and severity of asthma attacks, and reduce mortality. Most adult asthma patients can better control their asthma by inhaling small doses of hormones.

Warm reminder: When treating asthma, in order to achieve better results, it is actually necessary to further adopt comprehensive treatment methods. And at this time, you need to further avoid contact with allergens. And it is necessary to further avoid some other asthma triggers.