★ Does childhood asthma have an effect on growth and development ? Asthma itself is a chronic inflammatory process, and frequent recurrent attacks will definitely affect more. In addition, the drugs themselves can cause damage to growth and development. “Medicine is toxic in three parts”. The inhalation therapy recommended by the World Health Organization has been used in hundreds of countries around the world for nearly 30 years. As long as the treatment is standardized under the guidance of a specialist, long-term application will not affect growth and development. Can asthma in children relieve itself or heal on its own? Although asthma attacks are not age-restricted, the incidence of pediatric asthma decreases with age. Therefore, there is a popular belief that pediatric asthma will naturally remit and will get better on its own without formal treatment. Whether there is a relationship between the age of wheezing attacks and the prognosis is still inconclusive, but it is important to note the risk factors in asthma attacks; 1. Whether the attacks are frequent, the more attacks in a certain period the worse the prognosis, for example, if you are still wheezing at the age of 8, the prognosis is poor. If wheezing is frequent, 68% of patients become adults with asthma. If the number of attacks is significantly reduced in preadolescence, treatment measures can be appropriately attenuated. 2. The genetic atopic constitution and severity of attacks in asthmatic patients suggest the presence of persistent future asthma attacks and airway hyperreactivity. 3. Poor lung function also has a poor prognosis. We believe that most pediatric asthma can be cured after treatment, but if the attacks are frequent, especially in children around 10 years old, they should be treated actively and long-term. How to distinguish between cold and asthma? Cold can also have runny nose, sneezing and coughing, and asthma can also have runny nose, sneezing and coughing, so how to distinguish whether a child has a cold or asthma? Asthma has its characteristics, such as coughing for a long time, repeated attacks, coughing in the morning, coughing at night, and more violent bouts of coughing that come and go quickly. The cough of a cold comes on slowly and doesn’t last as long, and a cold is often accompanied by a fever, while simple asthma is not accompanied by a fever. ★In addition, asthma also has symptoms such as wheezing, croup, dyspnea, and the sound of tinnitus can be heard in the lungs, so these are not the same as a cold.