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The peak time for asthmatic kids

It is a bad time for kids who are prone to asthma. Winter months are the peak time for asthmatic attacks. This was revealed in a study conducted in Philadelphia. in a meeting held by the College of Chest Physicians it was revealed that these months were the most hectic at hospital emergency rooms where asthmatic kids are brought.

It was found that not only hospital visits but asthma medication also went up at this time. In contrast in the summer months hospital case were much lower. Consequently, the number of hospital cases also went down.
No reason was found for this trend but it was found that “children who reduce their medication do not resume taking them until their symptoms worsen.” This was a study conducted by the drug company Merck. They took the database available with United health care which is a health insurance company. After a detailed study conducted on these kids it was decided that the winter months are the peak months when asthmatic kids have to be looked after, as their immunity seems to go down.

A better strategy might be to give kids “intermittent courses of asthma controller medications … before fall starts, or at other times of predicted asthma outbreaks, rather than waiting until symptoms appear,” the study states.
The researchers, who included Kristen Levine, MSPH, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, analyzed data and published their findings.

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