The number of children undergoing influenza infection is increasing with the winter season. Flu infections are transmitted through droplet, that is, the spread of germs into the air during the sneezing and coughing of the sick person. In winter, especially in indoor environments, many people come together to spread the flu from patient to patient. Recently, RSV, Rinovirus, Influenza, Adenovirus, Covid viruses are in circulation and affect many people. In this process, the complaints of asthma children may increase and therefore parents have important tasks.. Memorial Ankara Hospital Department of Children’s Allergy. Dr. Ersoy Civelek gave important information to parents.
Asthma is a long -term non -microbial inflammatory disease of respiratory tract. Coughing, coughing at night, coughing against the morning, coughing after doing sports or playing are the most important complaints of asthma asthma. Complaints in asthma are caused by damage to the membranes laying the interior of the trachea. Patients with asthma may need to use daily protective drugs according to the severity of their complaints. The aim of this protective treatment is to control the damage in the membrane laying the interior of the trachea.
Flu infections can cause damage to the membranes laying the interior of the trachea section of the lungs in the middle and end parts of the lungs in children with asthma even if they start from the nose. This region, which is already damaged in asthmatic people, is more damaged by flu infection and as a result of asthma attacks or asthma crisis with the name of the public. Coughing, night cough and shortness of breath, such as the emergence of influenza infection or the increase in the severity of a complaint is called asthma attacks.
At this stage, the most important task falls to families. Parents should understand that asthmatic complaints have increased or a new complaint has emerged in their children. The first work to be done in the attack is to use relaxing drugs that will reduce the severity of the discomfort and end the asthma attack as soon as possible. How, how many times a day and at what dose of these drugs should be previously determined by the doctor who follows the patient. This plan is called “Written Action Plan .. If the increase in complaints is prevented after the first treatment starts, the treatment is continued as written in the plan. If the complaints are increasing or decrease, the patient should consult a doctor despite the use of a savior drug.
