Are You to Blame for Children's Asthma
I'll discuss asthma symptoms in children later. The vitally important first point is that toddler asthma is often caused by the parents, especially the pregnant mother.
No single finding will tell the doctor that the child has the disease, but if the child has several of these findings, it means it is more likely.
If you have the disease and are pregnant you should cure your breathing problems and get free of drugs as soon as possible simply by learning to breathe better.*** That is because when you are getting too little oxygen into your body, your baby is getting even less. It could be small and sickly when born, possibly prematurely.
Physicians will tell you that using medication during pregnancy is much safer than letting your asthma get out of control. It might even be true, or just a way to get more profit, but read about the dangers in pediatric asthma medication.*** It's better still to learn to breathe properly and naturally in advance.
You can also increase the chances of infant asthma by smoking during your pregnancy, or being in the same room as a smoker. The baby will probably be premature, and sick more often, with higher chances of the complaint.
If babies breathe second-hand smoke, their lungs won't grow and work as well as they should. Your baby is likely to have more colds and earaches and toddler asthma.
Symptoms of Asthma in Children
So what is this terrible lung disease that sees more asthma kids every day? Childhood asthma symptoms are so unreliable that even doctors have some difficulty with diagnosis. Asthma in toddlers is too much like other lung diseases. They'll prescribe pediatric asthma medication even though they admit that it can't cure and may kill. This pediatric asthma treatment creates a temporary easing of an asthma symptom in child breathing, but makes the kid's asthma worse in the long term.
Asthma in kids can produce different symptoms. If your child has some of the following childhood asthma symptoms you should consider
- getting emergency help
- using the Bowen asthma procedure as an emergency treatment for children's asthma
If the Bowen technique means that the ambulance arrives with no kids asthma to be seen, it is better than arriving to a dead baby. So have conventional emergency treatment as a backup. The Bowen technique is so simple that it is incredible without proof. But it is so simple that you can get proof in a few seconds by following the information in the free video of the Bowen emergency treatment for asthma in child.*** Also follow the link at the bottom of that page for three free video demonstrations.
Here are some of the symptoms of asthma in children
- his or her breathing rate increases (to more than 40 breaths/minute while the infant is sleeping). Most modern watches allow you to time a minute accurately while counting the child's breaths.
- suckling or feeding stops.
- your baby's ribs stand out with the effort of breathing in.
- the infant's chest looks too big.
- your baby gets red in the face or pale with blue fingernails.
- he/she cries more quietly and cuts off crying for lack of breath.
- toddler's nostrils flare out and may breathe through the mouth.
- your baby snorts during breast feeding, or bottle feeding.
Environment and Kids With Asthma
Forget all that you've been told about disinfecting the environment. That seems to be one of the main causes of the lung illness. The American Academy of Pediatrics advises breast feeding for at least a year. Very little medication will get through your milk to the baby according to the drug company advertisements.
Bohuslav Dvorak, PhD, identified a growth factor (epidermal growth factor or EGF) present in very high concentrations in breast milk. It can speed the maturation of a premature baby's intestines, which are involved with the baby's immune system. Breast fed children are less likely to suffer from breathing problems during childhood and obesity later on in life.
"House dust mites are the most common cause", according to conventional doctors, but recent research in Australia came to the astonishing conclusion that dust mites have no effect whatsoever. It is natural for children to crawl around the garden, get dirt in their mouth, eat a cockroach, have the puppy lick their mouth. Latest research suggests that protecting your toddler from the environment causes asthma because the infant's immune system never gets a chance to practice.
Research shows that babies given antibiotics are more likely to develop this and other allergies, because once more you are preventing normal interaction with the environment. Scientists at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit say doctors should be less foolhardy about prescribing the antibiotics to babies under six months.
Research on children and asthma shows that if a baby gets antibiotics in the first six months he/she is 250% more likely to get this lung problem by the age of seven. However keeping pets seems to offset the bad effects of antibiotics, and families with two or more pets had normal risk of the disease in spite of antibiotics.
Physicians Often to Blame for Asthma and Kids
I've already mentioned antibiotics. Vaccinating your child can also cause asthma because of mercury in the form of thimerasol in the vaccine.
Prescription drugs can kill asthma toddlers.*** Asthma and childhood can be a misery with prescription drugs. Childrens asthma progresses to the adult form as prescriptions make the disease worse.
Rather than put up with asthma and children, you should learn the Bowen process for emergency treatment and the Buteyko breathing technique for a permanent cure.*** Your children over the age of 3 will learn correct breathing a lot more easier than you will. They haven't practiced the bad breathing habits for several decades. Why should breathing help? Bad breathing habits are the main cause of this and other breathing diseases. Allergies etc only make it worse.
