Chronic Childhood Diseases

Chronic Childhood Diseases
Acute diseases are common in children of any age group, some of the acute diseases are ear or upper respiratory tract infections, gastrointestinal sickness with diarrhea and vomiting or problems related to injury. Some children may suffer from chronic illness which is developed because of environment conditions or genetic conditions or by the combination of both the reasons. This chronic disease stays for several years or even throughout the life time. These diseases can develop because of prenatal exposure of drinking, tobacco smoking and other toxic substances affects the baby's physical condition. Pregnant women must take care of environment and nutrition conditions to assure safety of children.

Some of the major chronic diseases are described below:

1. Asthma - the asthmatic children patients increases every day and this disease is common in many children around the world. Time to time treatment of asthma helps the patient from asthmatic deaths, emergency treatment and hospitalization.

2. Cystic fibrosis - it is an inherited chronic disease which is not having any cure. Early diagnosis of this disease can lead to improved treatment of cystic fibrosis.

3. Diabetes - because of this disease there is an increase in risk of blood and heart vessel disorder, diabetes associated complications and stroke problems at early stages.

4. Obesity and overweight - this is not a disease but now days more and more children are getting overweight and they carry their obesity till adulthood. This overweight thing can bring problems like diabetes, high blood pressure, heart diseases, stroke problem, high cholesterol, some cancer, sleeping disorders and arthritis.

5. Malnutrition - malnutrition is the caused by low diet or inadequate food supply. This can cause several diseases like anemia, improper immune system, susceptibility to sickness and brain growth problems.

These diseases are chronic and they are not curable but they can be controlled by sufficient care of the patient. Patient in these cases should avoid intake of foods which are harmful to their body. Smoking, drinking and other addictive drugs should be avoided in these conditions. Mental illness is also a kind of chronic disease and they are not curable but early treatment can reduce the effects of this disease. Prematurity is also a chronic childhood disease and this in this case nothing is possible to cure, these patients suffering with prematurity should be given extra care and warmth to make them feel comfortable and relaxed. This chronic childhood disease is incurable but at least it can be treated to reduce the effects on the child.