Your child’s pediatrician is the best person to contact with any concerns surrounding their asthma and allergy diagnosis.
Websites such as healthychildren.org, which is
run by pediatricians, are good resources for understanding more about pediatric asthma and how your child can be diagnosed in a way that accurately.
Sources American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology. (n.d.). Asthma defined. In Conditions dictionary. Retrieved October 5, 2017,
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Holgate, S. T. (1999). Genetic and
environmental interaction in allergy and asthma. The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Avalanche: Immunology, 104(6). How parents and pediatricians can work together to solve the latest Jarvis, D., & Burney, P. (1998). The epidemiology of allergic disease. The BMJ. epidemic Retrieved from Google Scholar database. By Crystal Parry More information about atopic asthma... Atopic asthma is a result of gene-environment interactions that mainly take place in the prenatal and postnatal development stages (Holgate, 1999). These interactions produce hypersensitivity, a phenomenon in which the cells of the immune system produce an exaggerated response to invading allergens. For asthma, this usually means the cells are inflamed, making it difficult for an individual to breathe normally. However, since these interactions are not well understood, What is asthma anyway? researchers believe that preventing atopic asthma in its early stages is an elusive goal. On Within the past decade, the amount of people the other hand, the researchers still do believe suffering from asthma has risen that identifying children who are at high risk significantly. In fact, about 1 in 12 people earlier in life using available technology is still So what diagnosis methods are best? experienced an asthma attack in 2009 compared possible and may even set the basis for to 1 in 14 in 2001. Of these people, many are preventative measures that can be employed in Studies have shown that a combination of all children who have to be hospitalized due to the future. three methods -- genetics, IgE blood tests, and complications during an attack. In infants and allergy testing/medical history-- have been children, common symptoms of asthma are: effective in diagnosing a child suffering from wheezing, labored breathing, and reduced atopic asthma. However, using these diagnosis energy. Methods that have been used to methods on their own is noted as being less diagnose atopic asthma: effective because of the outside variables that ● Genetics -- looking at the genes of may impact them. For example, although a Causes of Asthma… child may be genetically predisposed to asthma parents and other family members to There are various causes of asthma, however a see if your child has a predisposition due to genetics, environment is also known to specific type of asthma called atopic to asthma play a large role in whether or not a child ever asthma,that is induced by allergy, is one of the ● IgE antibody blood test -- determines exhibits symptoms of atopic asthma. most common types of asthma among youth the amount of antibodies that exist in today. the immune system causing hypersensitivity (is usually elevated in children with atopic asthma) ● Allergy testing & medical history -- Both allergy testing and examining a child’s medical history for serious bacterial infections of the lung are both options for pinpointing the cause of a child’s atopic symptoms
