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Living With Asthma?
The American Lung Association reports that an astonishing four million children under the age of 18 had an asthma attack in the past 12 months. In fact, this chronic condition accounts for more childhood hospital admissions than any other condition. It’s the most widely reported reason for chronic absenteeism from school.
But is asthma something you and your child "just have to live with?"
Not necessarily. Asthma results from an inflammation of the bronchial air passages, resulting from such things as allergies, respiratory infections, irritants (air pollution, cigarette smoke, strong odors) carried through the air and of course vertebral subluxations. Approximately 75 percent of children with asthma also have significant allergies and are strongly genetically predisposed for the disease.
While there is no known cure for asthma, traditional medicine treats it with drugs, including inhaled corticosteroids, allergy injections, bronchodilator inhalers, and by stressing trigger avoidance behavior.
Several articles that have appeared in Today’s Chiropractic Magazine relate that nerve interference caused by vertebral subluxation is often present in children with asthma. Time and again in our practice, we have found that regular chiropractic care diminishes the frequency of the asthma attacks and the severity of the condition.
It is certainly worth it to consider chiropractic as an alternative to the traditional medical approach to childhood asthma, for your child’s sake, given the research that suggests to promising outcomes.
