Five of Tennessee's most noted and excellent, award-winning pediatric doctors head up The Pediatric Associates of Davidson County located in Nashville, TN.
Education of our families, such as in the case of childhood asthma, ensures that knowledge means families can make more concrete, informed decisions regarding their precious children.
One concern parents bring to us is the ability to manage their asthmatic child's symptoms while playing sports in school.
How Can Families Manage a Child's Asthmatic Symptoms While Playing Sports?
Being unable to breathe during an attack terrifies children and their parents. Most children experience activity-induced asthma while playing sports.
A child can exhibit mild to severe symptoms, meaning close monitoring is critical. Learn to monitor signs through management. We offer asthma and allergy evaluations, treatment, and management.
The Pediatric Associates of Davidson County, located in Nashville, TN., must first discover what is causing the asthma symptoms and then create a management plan. The top goal is to keep your child safe and learn how to manage this without disrupting the child's life.
Parents monitor for increased coughing at night, wheezing, chest tightness, and complaints of shortness of breath.
Some interventions available are:
- Rescue inhalers for fast relief of asthma attacks.
- Long-term therapies help boost resistance to environmental allergens.
- Prescribe asthma medication.
- Careful exercise choices help the child to remain active.
- We may prescribe one medication or a combination of medicines that help to prevent asthma attacks.
- We may prescribe inhaled corticosteroids to ease tissue swelling in the airways.
- Medication to prevent swelling of airways
- Mast cell stabilizers help avoid symptoms.
- Warm up before playing.
- Note the air quality and pollen levels before playing sports.
- Make sure the child's asthma is under control before playing sports.
- Ensure the coach knows your child has asthma, the symptoms, and how to help the child with medication. Asthma symptoms can appear in minutes or even hours after sports.
Experience Help for Childhood Asthma
With our help, parents can see their asthmatic child live a quality life while taking advantage of all the sports programs at school. Through prompt diagnosing, medication, and a few lifestyle changes, your child can live a quality life with few interruptions.
We stand ready to help parents whose children suffer from asthma symptoms.
- We aim to target the allergen.
- Find the proper medication.
- We educate parents and children on managing asthma symptoms.
Your child can live an active life given the correct information and tools. Call one of our five pediatric doctors at (615) 329-3595 at the Pediatric Associates of Davidson County in Nashville, TN.
