Television Causes Asthma in Children?

Television Causes Asthma in Children?

Are your children television addict? This is what we always heard from parents about their children watching television habits especially children from three to twelve years old.

It can not be denied that television is a source of data and also can be your friend when you are alone. But the main function in most households is more to entertainment. Do you know, study shows that watching television in a long duration of time can increase the risk of getting asthma in children?

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A study published in Thorax Journal in United Kingdom reported that the link in the middle of asthma and inactive lifestyle (including too much time watching Tv), obesity and lack of rehearsal contribute to one death among 250 patients in one year.

Asthma is the most common lung persisting disease in the world. Agreeing to Who, 300 million people, especially children, suffer from asthma, and 255,000 population died of asthma in 2005. Asthma is not just a social health problem in high income country, it occurs in all country regardless of level of development.

Asthma in children regularly "disappear" after they reached 3 years old. For those children who still have asthma after this age, the disease regularly will continue for someone else two or three years. If without permissible operate or treatment, the disease might continue until the children come to be adults.

Asthma becomes the third main disease which causes children under 15 years old to be admitted in hospital and the main causes of the school absentees.

University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Uk have done a study to study either duration of television viewing in young children is linked with subsequent improvement of asthma.

Every year, parents were asked for their children wheezing symptoms and either or not their children had been diagnosed with asthma.

Researchers also gathered parental description of hours of Tv viewing per day by their children.

The results showed that 6 % the children with no symptom of wheeze at 3.5 years of age will have asthma at 11.5 years of age. And the children who watched Tv more than 2 hours per day, were practically twice as likely to institute asthma by 11.5 years of age as those watching Tv for 1 to 2 hours per day.

Inactive life style effected breathing pattern since it change the improvement of the lung and contribute to breathing problem among children.

The study showed that the early childhood lifestyle will decide the risk of developing asthma in later childhood.

Therefore, our children must be encouraged to spend more times playing face with their friends to stimulate lung improvement and heighten breathing system.

There are a lot of asthma patients complicated in sports, some of them even report their country in the Olympic. Unfortunately, there are still many parents too worry to let their children active in sports. This will lead to their children spending more times watching Tv or in front of personal computers. This inherited worry, indirectly will make the asthma patients believe that they must refrain from any bodily activities.

It is true that bodily activities can cause asthma attack, but if the disease is under control, the child can do many healthy activities without any problem.

Even though asthma can not be cured, the patients still can live general lifestyle as other general people. The most prominent thing is to manage and operate the disease wisely.

This is why parents must play prominent role in managing and controlling asthma in their children.

Some of the most prominent aspects which should be concerned by parents is to avoid the patients from the factors which could trigger asthma strike by keeping home clean and free from air pollution such as smoke from cigarettes.

All family members should know asthma symptoms such as:

-  Coughing at night
-  Breathing difficulty
-  Wheezing

The symptoms may differ from time to time, but regularly they get worse at night or early morning.

Besides always get ready with medicines and custom good balance diet, asthma can be controlled by performing bodily activities Agreeing to the sick person capabilities. Whereas, study shows that inactive lifestyle can causes person to institute asthma.

So, as parents, spare some of your requisite times to accompany your children playing at the park or even better if you could together with your children playing or exercising.

Television Causes Asthma in Children?

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