Recommendations for Young Children Suffering From Asthma or Allergies
With every new school year comes the need for new clothing, new classes, new teachers and the new school year also brings with it the old whizzing and sneezing in the many young school children that suffer from Asthma or other allergies. The children's classrooms play host to many allergy triggers ranging from the class dust mites all the way to the class hamster.
Therefore it is not entirely unexpected that the time when children are returning to schools is linked with an increase of 46 % in the number of asthma related visits to emergency hospital departments that are made by school pupils. Today, asthma is currently held responsible for fourteen million school absentees. More children can be kept in regular school attendance if they visit an allergist, it has been demonstrated in studies that patients who have been given treatment by allergists for ailments such as asthma tend to exhibit enhanced levels of control over their symptoms, have fewer school absences and are treated at lower prices.
The previous president of the ACAAI (American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology), an allergists, Doctor Myron Zitt says that in order to keep children's attention aimed on their education rather than symptoms of their asthma and other allergies, it essential that these kids see allergists in order to get properly diagnosed and treated. Doctor Zitt went on to say that this would also help parents to work with allergists in order to plan for the avoidance of classroom allergy triggers.
In order to prevent your children from missing school as a result of allergies, you would be highly advised to follow the tips below provided by the ACAAI (American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology) in collaboration with its allergist members:
Ensure that your children get seasonal flu injection
Prevent your children from reading on the school carpet as this may have a lot of dust and pollen; instead advise them to read while seated in chairs.
Gym exercises can trigger EIB (Exercise Induced Bronchoconstriction), this is better known as exercise induced asthma. In the event that your children experience hardships in breathing following exerting themselves, it is recommended that you consult an allergist who can aid you in formulating a prevention or treatment plan.