Hey, parents, be on the alert for signs — early signs — of an asthma attack
by LaVonne on 12/02/10 at 11:56 am
Parents can hope all they’d like. But they can’t assume that their children’s early asthma-attack symptoms will simply go away. Of course, first they have to learn to recognize the symptoms as such — and then they have to learn what to do about them.
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis contacted 101 parents of children who had ended up in the emergency room or an urgent-care situation because of asthma attacks. They wanted to find out what those parents generally notice about their children’s symptoms — and what they generally do about it.
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