Asthma

Children and asthma: the numbers
Roughly 80% of all childhood asthma occurs before the ages of five years. Diagnosing asthma in infants and toddlers can be difficult.

How do you treat asthma in children?
In almost all cases with a bronchodilator and inhaled corticosteroids.

Your smoking habits and your child's asthma
Your smoking does affect your child’s lungs and his risk for asthma. Don’t fool yourself into believing otherwise.

How do you know if your child has asthma?
If your child gets an anxious look in the eye, draws his shoulders up and you can see the spaces between his ribs, he's struggling to get enough air.

Diagnosing asthma in children: the symptoms
Diagnosing asthma in infants and toddlers can be difficult as many children wheeze and suffer recurrent colds, especially if they go to a crèche.

The asthmatic child and school
Can I do anything to help my child?

Increase in asthma among Africans
A higher degree of sensitisation to allergens among black Africans and an increased incidence of asthma among local teenagers is cause for concern, local researchers report.