Can Healthy Living Prevent You From Asthma ?

Every parents must want to prevent their children from any diseases, including asthma. What will they do ? Creating and maintaining a healthy and clean living environment are probably the most things that make sense. But the questions is, does healthy living really block our children from asthma exposure?

 

Chemical substances

Modern lifestyle also uses more and more chemical substance, either for the house construction, or for household. The uses of paints, mosquito repellent, air freshener, etc has been our daily needs, without ever considering the bad effect to our family’s health.

Excess immune system

Modern people has more concerns to a healthy living idea. We all spend a lot of money to keep our house and household perfectly clean and sterilized. But...maybe it becomes TOO clean..?

As we have learned, that asthma is actually a response of immune system that works over-reactively. A study has revealed that in order to make our immune system work effectively, it must be ‘triggered’ or ‘provocated’ when we were little child. It means that our children should, in certain level, get exposed to some allergen or infection, to ‘launch’ their mechanism of immune system, as earlier as possible.

A study conducted in Tucson, Arizona, showed that children who often get flu or get more exposure when they play or communicate with other children, had lower risk of getting asthma when they grow up. It is also believed that children who live in a house with pets, have a lower risk of getting asthma.
 

So, does it mean we have to let our house dirty, and let the children play with pets freely?

The most important thing is to keep our living environment balanced for children. We can, for example, let our children play on the outbound with their friends. Don’t keep them staying in the house all the time. Or, take a family picnic in the park sometimes. You can also introduce the children to outbound sports like tennis, swimming or just a routine jogging around the block of your house. If they meet with a dog or cat on the street, let them touch the animals, and play for awhile with them. And don’t forget to teach them to clean themselves after going back to the house.

However, if the children have already suffered from asthma, strict rules to avoid the allergen and other asthma triggers, to live cleanly and healthy, must be obeyed!

Remember the golden rule:

Prevent asthma when you can prevent it, but treat asthma accordingly to give the patient an opportunity to live a normal and happy life!

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