What is Childhood Asthma Or Infant Asthma?
Asthma is a very serious and common disease, one that affects millions of people worldwide. Of the estimated 20 million Americans suffering from asthma, there are approximately 9 million cases of childhood asthma. As you can see, child asthma is very common and can actually be more serious than adult asthma. An Explanation of Child Asthma When a child breathes, air travels between their mouth and their lungs. When a child takes a breath they take the air that is around them and they make it go down into your lungs. (Actually, they don’t h ave to think about this process, their body takes care of that for them.) Between their mouth and their lungs are airways or tubes which is the road that the air travels on to get to where it is going. When your child exhales or breathes out the used air takes the same road to go from their lungs and out their mouth. When this air is in their lungs, their body takes the oxygen it needs from the air and tells their body to get rid of the rest by breath
