The Importance of Managing Your Child’s Asthma Symptoms

Leading Pediatric Doctors

Our two pediatric clinics have five outstanding pediatric doctors running Tri-Valley Pediatrics with two locations in Pleasanton, and San Ramon, CA. While this group of esteemed doctors diagnose and treat various physical, mental, and emotional childhood illnesses and diseases, the one thing they see much of among children is asthma.

Millions of children and adults battle asthma daily. Asthma is not curable but manageable, and we teach children how to manage symptoms.

The Importance of Managing Your Child's Asthma Symptoms

Tri-Valley Pediatrics in Pleasanton, and San Ramon, CA, can help your child manage bronchospasms. When your child has increased bronchospasms, panic sets in quickly for them and you. You must remain calm so you can help calm your child.

When a child is young, the parents and the child's teacher, coach, or school nurse must carry a rescue inhaler when symptoms strike during school. A rescue inhaler works in seconds to open your child's airways so they can breathe normally. 

Managing increased bronchospasms is vital to the child's physical, emotional, and mental well-being. We can work with your child to control their symptoms. The symptoms of asthma are as follows.

• Severe shortness of breath
• Chest tightness
• Wheezing
• Coughing
• Cannot sleep at night

While asthma displays the same symptoms for every child, children do not respond the same when these asthmatic bronchospasms strike them. These symptoms can decrease grades, cause isolation, and interfere with social life and activities like sports programs. Children learn what can trigger signs and learn to avoid these triggers.

Allow one of our esteemed pediatric doctors to teach coping mechanisms to your child. You learn the best way to help your child quickly through various treatment options. Treatments are unique to every child, and we create an individualized treatment plan that best supports your child's management of symptoms. Management is their only option because this disease does not go away.

Managing symptoms means your child sleeps better and finds joy in doing things they did not believe they could do, such as playing school sports. Treatment options include the following.

• Sublingual immunotherapy
• Portable inhalers (rescue inhalers)
• Prescription medications

The bottom line to managing bronchospasms is living and enjoying life daily, free from asthma symptoms.

Get Your Child's Symptoms Under Control

Our five outstanding pediatric doctors at Tri-Valley Pediatrics in Pleasanton, and San Ramon, CA, say if your child has this disease, we can help them conquer it by teaching them management skills when symptoms arise. Please call us today in Pleasanton, CA, at (925) 460-8444 and San Ramon, CA, at (925) 380-6230.