Childhood asthma has become more widespread in recent decades. As the most common chronic illness in children, childhood asthma causes more missed school and places more limits on activity than does any other disease in the United States. Childhood asthma and adult asthma have the same underlying cause — inflammation of the airways. This inflammation makes the airways overly sensitive, leading to signs and symptoms that range from minor coughing or wheezing to serious flare-ups that interfere with breathing. This can result in a crisis visit to the Emergency Room in your local town. And it can happen multiple times. Fortunately, childhood asthma is treatable. Although childhood asthma can't be cured, there is different opinions on this you and your child can keep symptoms under control with a written plan, monitoring, regular doctor- chiropractic visits and making treatment changes as needed. Increasing at a alarming rate is the number of children who have asthma. This is the latest statistics: Children who currently have asthma: Children represent 7 million who have asthma: 9.4% Source: Summary Health Statistics for U.S. Children: National Health Interview Survey, 2008, table 1 A recent study was conducted to provide supporting evidence on the effectiveness of chiropractic care in relieving asthma and allergies and overall improvement in a pediatric patients immune system and over health and well being. A 7-year-old male was presented by his parents for chiropractic evaluation and possible care. The suffered from chronic colds, allergies, and asthma since the age of 5 months. At the time of initial evaluation, the patient was on a 1x/day dose of prescription Alavert for allergies and Albuterol for asthma. The patient's illness caused him to miss approximately 1'2 days a month of school due to colds and symptoms of asthma. The health problems resulted in numerous visits to their family doctor. The patient was began receiving specific, low-force spinal adjustments with the Activator Instrument to address areas of vertebral misalignments in the cervical, thoracic, and lumbo sacral spine. Within two weeks of initiating chiropractic care, the patient was able to discontinue his allergy and asthma medications (as decided upon by his parents) and the use of his nebulizer. In the first 5 months after beginning chiropractic care, he has had only wellness checkups at the medical doctor. The patient has not missed any days of school this past school year. It also shows how chiropractic care can increase the immune systems effectiveness and lead to overall better health and wellness. Dr. David S. Popkin
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