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A Child view of Asthma?
Example:
Neha, 15 year old girl, has asthma for last 8 years. Neha has seasonal asthma. Her father consulted many doctors, took treatment from homeopathic doctors and even took her to Hyderabad for the known fish therapy. Though, she got improvement but during climatic changes she suffered the asthma attacks. Neha's father was working as a clerk in a private office. He cared a lot but when inspite of her treatment  she had recurrence of asthma attack,  father used to loose his temper.


He shouted at her saying that he had spend lakhs of rupees on the treatment and blamed her for carelessness and dullness. Neha always felt guilty, scary and timid. Whenever a doctor was consulted her father used to tell the doctor that he has spend money just like water on Neha's treatment but she could not get complete relief from the disease. Asthma recurs as soon as the medicine was stopped. He used to request the doctor to give him a patented medicine so as to eradicate recurrence of asthma forever. With this attitude of her father, none of the doctors could gather courage to say that asthma can be controlled but can not be eradicated or cured completely. Doctor gave medicine to her which were continued for weeks and months.

At the time of next asthmatic attack her father becomes frustrated and started scolding the doctor as a quack and Neha as a negligent girl. It created a psychological problems for Neha so much so that she became a helpless child. She was scared more from her father than from the agony of asthma attack. She tried to hide her problems. Whenever her father was at home she tried hard not to sneeze and exerted violently to stop the cough. In this attempt many a times she had tears in her eyes. Her mother used to work as buffer. The whole family was disturbed and lived at a great stress of asthma.

Curiosity:  

  • What will be the fate of Neha? 
  • How problem was solved?

Neha's father then attended an asthma training program on the advice of a friend. There he realized that tendency of asthma will remain throughout her daughter's life. However, with judicious and regular use of medicine one can live perfectly normal life. The poor father while interacting with other parents of many asthmatic children found that he was not alone in fighting war against asthma. Then he stopped running after various magic therapies to cure asthma and took regular treatment with a specialist for her daughter. Now all the members of the family are living a happy life.

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