Childhood asthma - did you cause it? Several people have successfully sued their mothers for smoking while they were pregnant. Could your children sue you for having had infant asthma? Probably. Asthma symptoms in children can often be caused by the mother having an unhealthy lifestyle. That's official. Doctors can lose their licence for revealing that there is a free cure that has been known for decades.

Here are some warning signsBaby pants more than 40 breaths per minute while asleep.Infant stops suckling or feeding.Skin between ribs is pulled tight while breathing.Chest looks too big.Your baby's fingernails become blueBaby starts to cry and stops quickly through lack of breath.Nostrils flare.Grunts during feeding.

Asthma and pregnancy

So much for asthma in kids. Now how could mothers provoke asthma? (I'm not letting fathers off the hook either.) Your baby gets all it's oxygen from your breathing so you should learn to breathe properly. Your baby gets all its Oxygen from your bloodstream so if you don't breathe properly your baby will be deficient. Yes, you really can learn to breathe properly.We can't do anything to force doctors to tell us about cheap cures. They offer us quack medicine to make us feel better, while making asthma worse, while telling us there is no cure. CORRECTION: I've just discovered it's not all the doctors' fault. They have been told by the medical industry that they will lose their licence to practice medicine if they tell you about the free cure for asthma.

Here is their official point of view: "Remember: Using asthma medicine during pregnancy is much safer than letting your asthma get out of control. Such asthma medicines as inhaled beta-agonists (quick relief medicines like Maxair or Proventil), cromolyn (medicines that prevent triggers from causing reactions in your lungs, like Intal), and inhaled steroids (long-term controller medicines like Flovent) are safe for pregnant women when you take them as directed by your doctor. Please don't read the instructions as it might decrease our income." Some of that is untrue.

Between 2% and 7.5% of healthy infants have significant intolerance to the protein in cow's milk. The problem is particularly common in families with strong histories of eczema, allergies, or asthma.

Babies with this intolerance can have discomfort even if they are exclusively breast fed. The difficulty arises when the mother eats or drinks cow's milk protein. The protein passes into her breast milk and from there into the baby's digestive system. Antibodies to this protein have been found in infants who are intolerant, providing evidence of the link between the mother's diet and her baby's digestive troubles. The problem disappears three weeks after the mother stops eating milk products.

Prevention of asthma in toddlers

Here is where the husband comes in. If anybody in the house smokes (see childhood asthma symptoms above) pediatric asthma treatment is much more likely to be your never-ending task.

The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends a minimum of 1 year but breastfeeding should continue for as long as both the parent and child want to. Dr. Sanjay Gupta says "This has been studied quite a bit. Talking about medical reasons... psychological reasons... and cognitive reasons. Breast feeding... decreases infections... and may decrease allergies and incidence of asthma later in life.

doctors responsible for asthma in kids

I think that the doctors are more to blame than you, because they should know better. doctors cause a lot of the trouble in their endless attempts to sell you more drugs. Tests show that antibiotics destroy the correct activity in a child's intestine. This leads to impaired immune systems and asthma.

Abusing prescription drugs is as common as, or maybe even more common than, street drug use - and doctors are often to blame. People die from asthma prescription drugs.

Steroid drugs prescribed by doctors can make your child prone to diseases by weakening the immune system.

Danger in the showers. When chlorine vaporizes it combines with other airborne particles and forms dangerous chloroform gas. Tests show that asthma and other breathing problems are created. The U.S. EPA states that "Due to chlorine and showering, there is an elevated level of chloroform gas in virtually every home in America...". Most researchers agree that chlorine in water encourages asthma but surprisingly the greatest effect seems to come from chlorine in showers.

Sing Your Cares Away

I can still remember the fun we had singing together when I was a child. Singing releases endorphins into the bloodstream, making you feel positive.

But it has other benefits too. It teaches control in breathing (not the best but good) and the vibrations help to loosen mucus in the airways.

Wouldn't it be grand to have a baby that sang instead of crying? My uncle was a band leader. One day he stopped practicing the trumpet at a very difficult passage, but his baby girl kept on singing through the difficult passage from her pram behind him. Let your baby hear music all the time.