Can children with asthma heal on their own

  Parents who can bring their children to the pediatric asthma clinic are basically determined to cure their children, but we find many parents in the general clinic who know that their children are asthmatic but still don’t think so, and when asked, they basically say the same thing: I heard that asthma will get better when they grow up, so why should I bother to cure it?  It is true that the incidence of asthma in children can gradually decrease with age, and about 50% of children can naturally remit during adolescence, which is related to the gradual improvement of their immune function and the gradual widening of their airway diameter during growth and development.  However, remission does not mean healing. There are two peak periods for the onset of asthma, one is during childhood and the other is after the age of 50, because the inflammation of the airways of asthma patients is chronic, unlike the common cold and flu, which heals after an attack. This is called airway hyperresponsiveness.  Many asthma patients with “non-exacerbations” around puberty often have varying degrees of airway dysfunction on pulmonary function tests, indicating that airway hyperresponsiveness still exists, suggesting the possibility of future asthma attacks.  If a child’s early asthma attacks are not treated and the asthma attacks are frequent and persistent, it will be difficult to achieve natural remission. Early standardized treatment to control asthma without attacks for at least 2-3 years is expected to lead to clinical cure. Therefore, parents should never take a chance, so as not to delay the best asthma treatment for their children and develop into adult asthma and be stuck with the disease for life.