Allergies and Asthma

It is common for asthma to start about the age of 3, perhaps after a warning period of infantile eczema or after the general warning of asthma, hay fever, and eczema being in the family. At first all that is noticed is that the child catches coughs very easily, coughing especially at night and being rather distressed by it. Children with asthma cough much more than adults do.
Most of them will grow out of the condition before their teens but a few may have trouble again many years later. Perhaps it is their increasing immunity to the viruses of ordinary coughs and colds that help them to shake it off, for it would appear that the allergic basis to the trouble usually only becomes important several years later. Nevertheless it is obviously wise to be closely on the watch for allergies straight away and to institute anti-dust.
It is most important that nobody be allowed to smoke in the child’s bedroom and it would be more than shameful if any member of the family continued to smoke in the same house anyway. It takes very little tobacco smoke in the atmosphere to harm an asthmatic child.

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