A influência da técnica inalatória no controle da asma em crianças

Abstract

This paper focuses on aspects relating to asthma, its classification, diagnostic and the inhalation technique used for its treatment, aiming to make a bibliographic review about the importance of correct performance of inhalation technique for its control and for the crisis treatment on children. Asthma is a high prevalence disease that takes suffering and anguish to the patient when it gets worst. Asthma attacks adult and children, and in this last ones, because of the worse prognosis, its more striking. There are many crisis triggers, but we cannot fail to appreciate the environmental factors as main triggers. There are many kinds of treatment, but the inhalation technique represents an advance on the control of this pathology and thus has to be performed correctly so the drug can act properly and focused on the target organ that are the lungs. This study had as purpose revise the literature about the inhalation 6 technique and the difficulty of its application especially on low-aged children. Generally, children are less privileged with the treatment, because they are not autonomous for the realization of the technique, needing their parents or caregivers help to accomplish it, and many times it is not done correctly. The use of masks coupled to the sprays is indicated on children, then they will be able to a better absorption of the drug, with pulmonary deposition. Detaching the importance of the understanding for the its correct realization and have the control of this pathology and fewer number of crisis.