If your child has asthma one of the most common chronic diseases among children in the country today you may be worried that you have your work cut out for you. In a way, you do. Asthma, especially with more severe cases, is not something you take lightly. But, you’re not alone. Guidance from health care providers, use of effective medications, better identification of asthma triggers, and more can make that work a little easier and help you address asthma in a way that is smarter not harder for you and your child.

When you heard that your child was first diagnosed with asthma, what first ran through your mind? Days lost at school for your child or at work for you because of symptoms related to asthma? Repeated trips to the hospital emergency room when severe attacks occurred? Your child sitting on the sidelines while her friends enjoy themselves the playground or soccer field?

Could these scenarios happen? Yes, they could if your child’s asthma is ignored or left untreated. But does it have to happen? Absolutely not. Today, working with your “team” including you and your child, your health care provider, your child’s school staff, your child’s sport coach, your child’s caregiver, and even your health plan you can erase these troubling scenes from you mind.

Instead, you and your child can become knowledgeable about what asthma is and the best way to manage it. Whether it will be easy or difficult is not easy to predict. There are so many variables: the age of your child, the locale where you live, the availability of health insurance, the sensitivity and communication skills of your health care provider, and even the environment inside and outside of your home.

For some children, their asthma symptoms will disappear as they grow older. But, there’s no guarantee that will happen. For now, it’s important to find out how you and your family can help your child manage her condition each day as it comes.

With a better understanding of what causes your child’s symptoms plus use of appropriate medications and various lifestyle changes and your child can grow up with her family and friends being healthy, happy, and active.

Communicating with Your Child

How you talk with your child about his asthma and related symptoms is very important. Communications, of course, will vary with the age of a child, and the messages will evolve as well as he grows older. But, it is important that as a parent you anticipate what to expect, and help guide your child toward appropriate asthma management and daily activity decisions.

As your child’s understanding of asthma grows and develops, he will need to take more and eventually all responsibility for his care. Allow your child to participate in care as his age permits, and teach him appropriate words and terms for communicating symptoms, as well as the names and appropriate use of medications and equipment.

Setting The Tone

The key to communicating with your child is to first understand you own reaction to the diagnosis of asthma. Initially, learning that your child has asthma can be confusing and upsetting. You may wonder “Why my child?” Or, you may feel angry with yourself that you don’t recognize that symptoms such as coughing or wheezing were actually related to asthma. Those feelings are natural among arenas and families.

Children may internalize that worry afraid to run, exercise, or with other children. This could lead to other problems in the run for them, such as poor physical conditioning and lack of socialization skills. Increasingly, it appears that obesity may even be another factor that can make asthma worse.

If you find yourself extremely anxious about your child’s condition talk to your health care provider about your feelings, or find her parents of asthmatic children in local support groups. While’s understandable for you to be cautious when it comes to asthma symptoms, you also want your child to feel confident that she can manage her condition in a variety of situations.

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This reflex is still at work in modern women. When they go on a weight loss diet, serotonin levels fall, and this reflex forces women into abnormal behaviors designed to maximize their weight and sustain their ability to act as the food source for their babies.

Here is how the starvation response works in modern times. When women start a diet she expects to experience some fatigue, food craving, and mental discomfort. She probably considers these problems an inevitable price to pay for a slim body. However, these problems intensify as she continues to deplete her serotonin.

After a few weeks or a few months, the serotonin problem becomes intolerable. The dieter falls into a minor depression. Food craving become obsessive, so she gives in and cheats on her diet. This immediately elevates her serotonin, making her mind more peaceful and content. Thus, she is rewarded for overeating. So she cheats on her diet again. The cycle of cheating and reward continue until she has totally abandoned her diet and regained her lost weight.

She decides to favor her mental health over losing weight. Of course, when a woman cheats on her diet does not say, “I am going to feed my serotonin by eating these fattening foods.” She instinctively knows those foods make her feel better. Never does she realize that an ancient reflex has ensured her.

The starvation response forces a dieting woman to alternate between losing weight and having serotonin levels. Because the starvation response is unleashed by weight loss, it vanishes when a woman starts overeating. This is why woman have been forced to choose between losing weight while suffering from low serotonin or giving up dieting and feeding their serotonin needs.

Unfortunately, modern women are fighting a battle with an opponent so powerful it insured the continuation of the human species. No wonder it’s such a struggle to lose weight! This is why over 98 percent of all diets fail.

We hope this help women lighten up and stop being so hard on themselves. Until they take care of their special needs there is a no way woman can easily lose weight. It’s not just matter self control and discipline.

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The starvation response afflicts all women, not just dieters. Today’s women still carry the genetic instructions for the starvation response and low serotonin. This makes a woman’s serotonin system respond differently to modern foods than a man’s. The wrong foods more easily inhibit a women’s serotonin and make her suffer.

Today’s diet is very high in protein and high in sugar foods. Nearly every meal contains meat, fish, poultry, or diary protein. Much of the modern diet consists of baked goods, candy, and processed foods, which are high in sugar. Unfortunately, these types of foods attack a woman’s serotonin.

Excess protein evokes the starvation response simply because excess meat is one of the ancient signals that a woman faced starvation. Animal protein formed a higher percentage of our ancestors’ meager daily caloric intake during times of starvation.

Our ancestor had a diet that consisted primarily of gathered plants and the occasional carrion, the remains of dead animal. It was hard to hunt with primitive weapons. Eating meat was rare event. However, in time of general starvation many animal died, and our ancestor feasted o the fallen bodies. At the same time the plant life disappeared. Therefore, excessive meat is a signal that brings on the starvation response.

Another signal for the starvation response is food high in sugar. Ancient fruit and vegetable has less sugar content than today’s varieties. The only time our ancient ancestor ate fruit and vegetable with a high sugar content is when starvation force them to eat rotting vegetables, and dried remain of vegetables, both of which have higher than normal sugar content. Thus, high sugar, insulin producing fruits and vegetables are associated with time of starvation.

Many modern women eat diets high in protein and full high sugar foods. This means that even women who do not “watch” their weight can go through life impaired by low serotonin. Most women will experience symptoms of low serotonin at some point during their lives, although they will not be clinically ill. Their symptoms will be milder and still strong enough to impair daily activities, but not strong enough to attract the attention of a doctor who might assume these problems are “just part of being women.”

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Women need different foods because their brains have much more serotonin than men. Maria Carlsson and her colleagues at the University Gothenburg Sweden, found that the serotonin neurons of the female brain have a greater storage capacity, a higher enzymatic activity with a higher rate of serotonin synthesis and are thus generally more developed than in the make. This difference arises because female sex hormones enhance serotonin activity, while male hormone inhibits serotonin.

Women’s higher levels of serotonin may be of fundamental importance for such functions as appetite, sexuality, impulsive behavior, and aggression. Serotonin also controls the way women eat, drink, and even seek pleasure. Serotonin is like a surrogate parent, discouraging negative actions and comforting us during hard times. Serotonin is what gives women the power to better withstand stress and be more nurturing, serene, and peaceful than men.

Women are not as subject to impulsive behaviors. They’re more cooperative. They’re more intuitive. Simply put, serotonin makes women different from men. So our gang of wonder women met, worked, and lived together. We cried, laughed, and teased each other. I don’t remember a moment of jealousy, envy, or proprietary behavior. In fact, each of us was more concerned for the others than we were for ourselves.

Women with low serotonin cannot experience a sense of well being. Low serotonin creates a sense of panic, anxiety, and depression. Without the help of serotonin, small problems can become large. Think of serotonin as being the police force that prevents a small disturbance from escalating into a riot.

At some time, almost every woman has suffered from some preventable malady brought on by low serotonin. It affects every woman differently. Some woman knows they are ill. Others think their infirmity is just a normal part of living, the result of age, or just another “women’s complaint” that must be endured. The vast majority are not even aware that low levels of stress are not an inherent part modern life but rather symptoms of a nutritional disease. Symptoms of low serotonin include, weight gain, depression, stress, tendency toward substance abuse, PMS, food craving and eating disorder, sexual dysfunction, anxiety and disturbed sleep.

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Women have long known what modern medicine has just discovered. Any women will tell you her body responds differently to food than a man’s. She gains weight more easily, loses weight more slowly, and has food carvings and obsessions rarely seen in men. Her reaction to food is more physically responsive and emotionally changed.

A starting new discovery explains why women are so different from men when it comes to food and will forever change the way we think about dieting and a women’s nutritional needs.

The key to this discovery is the brain chemical serotonin and how it affects women’s well being. At some point in her life, the average women eats the wrong foods or goes on a diet, and the resulting serotonin is the reason she gains weight and has more food cravings, mood swings, and many of the problems that preferentially afflict women.

We are going to gave to change the way we think about women’s physical, emotional, and mental health. Women are much greater than their food allows them to be. None of the symptoms of low serotonin are an inherent part of being a woman.

It is possible to have it all. A slim body, a powerful mind, and freedom from women many “women’s complaints.” All a woman has to do is eat foods that sustain her serotonin chemistry.

Our society’s reliance on weight loss diets designed for the male body previously forced women to choose between three unacceptedable alternatives. One, they could continue on male oriented diets but would suffer from the many problems brought on by low serotonin. All conventional diets lower a women’s serotonin. High protein, low fat and high carbohydrate diets all bring on abnormal serotonin. Even conventional serotonin boosting diets fail to meet women’s special needs, and may lower serotonin.

Two, they could choose an increasingly popular alternative and continue with male oriented diets and take serotonin stimulating drugs such Prozac, Redux, or fenfluramine. However these drug as expensive and carry the risk of harmful, and even fatal, side effect.

Or three, they could choose what was previously the only non pharmaceutical way to support serotonin - abandon dieting. The foods that women turn to when they leave their diet are almost always fattening foods that restore serotonin levels to normal.

This meant that as long as women continued to ignore their special needs there was no non pharmaceutical way to both diet and support serotonin.

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Patients with sleep most commonly complain of the following:

• I cannot sleep
• I cannot stay awake
• I cannot sleep at the right time
• I thrash move about in bed, and I have repeated leg jerking.

These complaints address the entire field of sleep disturbances. “I cannot sleep” means that the person has trouble falling asleep or staying asleep and wakes up repeatedly throughout the night, including early hours of the morning. “I cannot stay awake” means that he or she falls asleep during the day at inappropriate places and under inappropriate circumstances. “I cannot sleep at the right time” means that the individual experiences difficulty going to sleep at the appropriate time, that is, he or she either goes to sleep late 9for example, 3.00 am to 5.00 am) and wake up late 9for example, 11.00am to 1.00pm) or goes to sleep early (for example 8.00 pm to 9.00pm) and wakes up early (for example 3.00 am to 5.00 am).

The last complaint – thrashing and leg jerking – refer to someone with periodic movement of the leg during sleep at night (witnessed by the bed partner) or thrashing, flailing, and other abnormal who movements during sleep. These motions occur in a variety of sleep disorders.

Sleep deprivation and insomnia are two most common sleep problems in our society today. Other sleep problems include the following:

• Sleep apnea
• Restless legs
• Narcolepsy
• Sleep disturbance as a result of psychiatric, general medical, and neurological disorders
• Drug and alcohol related sleep problems
• Parasomnias (abnormal movements and behavior occurring during sleep)
• Circadian rhythm sleep disorders (mismatch of timing between the group of nerve cells functioning as a time clock in the center of the brain and the outside clock)

Dr. Samantha Hement has 10 years experience in neurology. She is specialty concerned with nervous system function and sleeping disorders. She has created a website to deal with insomnia and provided some information on how to deal your insomnia without medications.

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Food allergies are widespread. An extremely conservative estimate is that about 2 percent of the populations have an unmistakable food allergy. Egg, wheat, milk, fish and selfish, nuts, chocolate and citrus fruits are some of the common offenders. Allergic symptoms cover a wide spectrum, from hay fever and asthma symptoms to skin rash, including hives, to gut upset and migraine, to muscle and joint aches and pains.

There have been clear cut instances where arthritis symptoms in patients diagnosed as having rheumatoid arthritis have come and gone in response to the addition and withdrawal of specific foods given in a “double blind” fashion. The foods varied by patient, and included corn, wheat, nitrate, shrimp and milk. Most of these patients appeared to be rheumatoid factor (RF) negative. But estimated of the number of RA patients whose symptoms are affected by food are well under 5 percent.

In isolated instances, flare up of childhood arthritis and lupus have been linked to specific foods. A different kind of example is celiac disease, a condition where people are quite intolerant of gluten, a wheat protein. Celiacs often have musculoskeletal symptoms – some quite severe which improve on gluten free diet. I well recall a young woman with intractable pain who, after several years of fruitless investigations and treatment at my hands, saw another doctor who made the correct diagnosis and cured her with diet.

A number of special diets have been studies. Most of these, done in patient with rheumatoid arthritis, started with a period of fasting (often up to a week) then various foods were reintroduced, with or without attempts to avoid specific items. In some instances, a tailored kind of diet was started. The result if these studies have been mixed. Some have shown no benefit. Many others have shown definite benefit, especially during the fasting phase.

One of the most convincing of these demonstrated that a small minority of patients were clearly helped by a diet that eliminated red meat, daily products, alcohol, preservatives, fruits, herbs and spices. A slightly different study showed that 17 patients put on a long term vegetarian diet improved and were able to maintain their improvement for at least a year. But nutritionists examining this study have criticized it for two reason: the number were very small, and the diet itself had nutritional deficiencies that could lead to difficulty over the long run.

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One of the wonderful health promoting benefits of exercise is that it can keep you awake during the day and improve your sleep at night. More than 70 percent of people say that they don’t work out because they are too tired, but what they may not know is that exercise is a great stress reliever. When you break the fatigue and inactivity cycle, you’re energized by the movement and rewarded with subsequent relaxation.

In one study, adult who engaged in moderate exercise four times a week for 30 to 40 minutes had greater improvement in their sleep than did their sedentary counterparts. The exercise slept nearly an hour longer at night, took less time to fall asleep, and took fewer daytime naps. Another poll found that those who walked at least six blocks a day at a normal pace were one third less likely to have trouble staying asleep than were non-walkers. People who walked a bit more briskly actually slashed their risk of a sleep disorder by 50 percent.

Daily exercise also helps lessen the risks of a wide range of problems, from heart disease to depression and insomnia. Inactivity is linked to at least 15 chronic diseases. Thirty minutes of moderate daily exercise is recommended.

Weight-bearing exercise keeps us strong and flexible and wards off osteoporosis. If muscle or joint aches keep you awake, try smooth stretching movements to ease stiffness and pain. Yoga, tai chi, and calisthenics involve movements that increase flexibility.

Make an exercise appointment with yourself. Go jogging, ride a bicycle, swim, or work in the garden. Scheduling an aerobics class at a gym or community center can motivate you to stick with it. It’s even better if you sign up with friend. Whatever you do, consistency is the key.

Timing your exercise session is also important. Early morning exercises are often pleased to have accomplished the task prior to the required activities of the day, but, in general, early exercise doesn’t affect evening sleep. In fact, those who exercise at the beginning of the day, especially if they get up extra early to fit it in, seem to reach their energy peak by the afternoon and get tired after lunch.

Afternoon workouts seem to have the most benefit for those with sleeping problems. They help increase afternoon alertness and deepen evening sleep. However, do not exercise within three hours of bedtime. This time cushion will allow your body to slow down and its temperature to readjust.

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Children with eczema get less sleep than children who don’t for very obvious reason: itching keeps them from relaxing enough to fall asleep. Itching attacks can also flare in the middle of the night, waking the child and everyone else in the house.

Lack of sleep is serious. Tired children don’t learn as well as those who get a good night’s sleep. Sleep deprivation can make a child cranky and anxious. Over the long term, it can affect the child’s general health. Lack of sleep for the child’s parent is just as serious. Tired parents lose patience with their fussy child, creating stress which makes the child eczema worse.

The first thing is to reduce tension and stress in the family. Explore medication and relaxation techniques. To help your child sleep better, be making sure you do everything possible to keep itching under control during the day. Include an itch check at bedtime to see that all medication and moisturizers are doing their jobs. Remember that clear skin can itch, so if your child complains is itching but you don’t see a rash, treat the area just an aggressively as you would if the skin were broken.

Don’t forget to check your child scalp. Hair hides the rash of eczema very well, particularly in children with thick hair. The only clue may be mild dandruff. When you inspect closely, you may see telltale signs of eczema or even scrapes and scratches to indicate nocturnal digging. Scalp preparations for eczema are different from skin preparations. Your doctor may prescribe medication especially for scalps.

Keep pets out of your child’s bedroom to maintain a mite dander, and dust free haven in which to sleep. If the family dog enters your child’s bedroom to sniff around just once, a whole week of dust and mite reduction measures is undone. Don’t let cigarette or cigar smoke get into the bedroom. Smoke contains particulate matter that can irritate the skin directly. It also irritates the airways this reduces your child’s comfort and makes it harder for him or her to get sleep.

If your child is too warm, he or she will itch more. If you live in high pollution or high dust area, use window filters to keep your child’s room free of irritants. If there is a heat source or a radiator in the room, make sure your child’s bed is not right next to it. Direct heat can make the bed too warm as well as dry out exposed skin, leading to worse itching. Gentle fans or air-conditioning in the summer can help keep the bedroom cool.

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• Give your child an oatmeal bath in lukewarm water. Soak for at least 20 minutes, but no more than 30 minutes. Cover the skin thoroughly with the thickest cream your child can tolerate within 3 minutes of leaving the bath.
• Refrigerate any prescription medication or moisturizer. This will stop itching fasten than room temperature creams. For trips away from home, use s cooler.
• Make sure your child’s skin is covered with an emollient like petroleum jelly before he or she goes swimming.
• Cover your child’s face and hands with an emollient like petroleum jelly before he or she goes out in cold weather.
• Babies hand s and cheeks should be coated before meals so that foods and beverages don’t irritate their skin.
• Have your child wear loose fitting, comfortable clothes made of cotton or any other smooth fiber fabric.
• When you purchase new clothing or bedding, wash it before your child uses it. Dries, preservatives, and irritants on few fabrics can leach onto the skin and cause itching.
• Keep your child’s fingernails trimmed.
• Have your child wear cotton gloves at night. Knee high socks are sometimes better because they don’t fall off as easily.
• Keep your child’s hand busy during the day. Idles hands will often find occupation in scratching. Try worry beads, hand size squeeze balls, or hand toys.
• Try over the counter antihistamines. If oral antihistamines make your child drowsy, try a topical cream. Benadryl cream is often effective but does contain allergens that can cause an allergic reaction if overdosed, even in those without eczema. Ask your doctor if a prescription cream called zonalon might help your child. Zonalon doesn’t contain allergens.

For some children with eczema, scratching may become an obsessive habit. The child may be unconscious of scratching until he or she causes excessive pain or bleeding. It’s important to help your child control the impulse to scratch. By observation and conversation, determine your child’s itch pattern.

A common but often not recognized cause is the friction of clothing on skin when your child changes. Another time to watch is when your child’s attention is taken away from an engrossing activity, like watching TV or playing video games. Forgotten itching may suddenly demand a good scratch.

Dr.Sarah Tyler is a dermatology specialist in UK. Let her show you how you can help your child lead a normal, enjoyable life with the Minimum Disruption From Eczema.

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