Allergies and Asthma

The course and severity of asthma among children are difficult to predict. The majority of the affected children have occasional attacks of slight to moderate severity, not very difficult to manage. A minority develop severe intractable asthma, usually perennial rather than seasonal. It is incapacitating and adversely affects school attendance, day-to-day functioning and general child […]

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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 […]

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