Asthma is one of the chronic diseases of childhood of which many parents are unaware. Asthma is usually a long-term illness. In childhood Asthma, children encounter problems in breathing.  In it, the airways become blocked or narrow. This occurs usually temporarily and some of the significant symptoms are shortness of breath, trouble in breathing along with their might be some other symptoms as well. At times, it also becomes severe and the child needs an emergency treatment to restore normal breathing.

 It is generally seen that each case of childhood asthma is different hence; treatment should be adopted or tailored depending on the severity of childhood asthma. Before adopting any treatment, it should be checked that all those things that trigger asthma are removed from the Childs environment.

Usually in the starting for the purpose of treatment, lowest dose of medication is used i.e. “stepping up” the dose and frequencies if the asthma gets worse and when it gets control the medication is “stepped down.”

Asthma medications are divided into two types one is quick relief and the other is Long-term control.  The prior one is used when there is need to remove the immediate symptoms of an asthma attack where as long term medication is adopted d to lessen the severity or frequency of the asthma attack. Asthma medication either can be inhaled or is in pill form. Therefore, it is always advisable to get your child diagnosed if he or she encounters any sort of problem in breathing and if they have asthma, they should get proper medication or treatment for that.