What can you do to help babies with asthma?

Answer 1

Here's a guide for babies 0-12 months old.

Answer 2

If Your Infant Has Asthma You Will Have To Take Extra Care
The lungs of an infant do not function as efficiently as the lungs of an older child. As a result, a severe episode of asthma can quickly result in lung failure.
What To Do
Follow the appointment schedule for checking on your infant's asthma. The doctor will want to see your child regularly even if he or she is not having symptoms.
If your infant has asthma symptoms, act quickly. Follow the asthma control plan your doctor made for handling symptoms.
Watch your infant closely for signs to seek emergency care. These signs include:
Breathing rate increases (to over 40 breaths per minute while the infant is sleeping).Count the number of breaths in 15 seconds and multiply by four.
Suckling or feeding stops.
Skin between the infant's ribs is pulled tight.
Chest gets bigger.
Coloring changes (pale or red face; fingernails turn blue).
Cry changes in quality becomes softer and shorter.
Nostrils open wider (nasal flaring).
Grunting.
Be prepared. Do not wait until the last minute to learn how to handle an emergency. Have an asthma control plan to get to the doctor or hospital that includes knowing how you'll get there, how much it will cost, and who will watch your other children.
During An Asthma Episode DO NOT Do the Following:
Do not give your infant large volumes of liquids to drink; just give normal amounts.
Do not have your infant breathe warm, moist air (e.g., the mist from a hot shower).
Do not have your infant rebreathe into a bag held tightly over his or her nose and mouth.
Do not give your infant over the counter antihistamines and cold remedies.

Answer 3

I;m an ayurvedic doctor. See Asthma is seen to bear a tendency to run in families. It is more an immune reaction than a disease. So drug therapy should be resorted upon only for emergency management. A total care in life style is the most important thing to manage asthma. Never serve the following dishes to any asthma patient: milk products especially curd, yogurt, cheese and milk;, fermented foods and drinks, frozen stuffs like ice-cream, deep fried items, fruits and other stuffs with sour taste, eggs, and sea food. This itself will do a lot of help. Sometimes asthma, especially familial ones, may show a tendency to relapse with lunar cycles. This is also an important point. Then, avoid dusty and smoky atmosphere. Air pollution has made the life of asthma patients more miserable. Breathing exercises like Yogic pranayam has got tremendous effect in reducing the recurrent attacks. Regular physical exercise is also equally beneficial. In any case don't confine the treatment of asthma to medicines alone. They are many a times harmful

Answer 4

Keep dust levels in the home down to the minimum and use hypoalegenic materials for cloths and bedding. Also, keep their skin and everyone elses in the house well moisturised.

Answer 5

The number one thing you can do is DON'T SMOKE! That's it. That will eliminate about 95% of the problem.