4Y1M 2Y4M 喘息 Asthma

タカラ、3週間以上堰が止まらず、悪化していたのでAdvantist　Hospitalへ連れて行くと、Asthma(喘息)と診断された。

Asthmaの原因のほとんどがアレルギーで、タカラも咳以外は元気に遊んでいる。たまにくしゃみをすると透明の鼻水を出すのはアレルギーの典型らしい。

今日の明け方、咳がひどくておきてしばらく止まらなかったのでちょっと心配になって連れて行ったのだが、私は風邪が悪化して自分みたいに肺炎になったらかわいそうだからと思っていた。咳の仕方がアレルギーっぽく、ごほ、ごほ、ごほ、くしゅくしゅ、みたいに最後はくしゃみを抑えるような咳。微熱もある。

レントゲンを撮り、肺炎など他の肺病ではないことを確認すると、医者は医学用語で言うピジョンチェストも診断材料だと言い、「この子はジムに通って鍛えているみたいに胸が隆起しているが、これは3週間どころではなくもっと長く咳をしていたように見えるなあ」と言っていた。

喘息を引き起こすきっかけは空気の汚れや家のほこり。英国からマレーシアに引っ越してきたことから、マレーシアの空気が汚いことがきっかけかもしれないと言われた。私は、自分の肺炎同様、うちのエアコンカビなんじゃないかとも思うのだが。

食生活と環境の注意してくださいとのこと。そして、環境を変えるなら高い階のフラットに引っ越すように、空気がきれいだからとアドバイス。「ご主人に少しお金出してもらって高い階に引越しなさい」だって。言ってくれたね！Jasonはそれでも引越しを私のわがままと一蹴、渋るのかなあ・・・。

Takara has been coughing for over 3 weeks and early this morning, he kept coughing in bed for a while. I decided to take him to Advantist Hospital. To my surprise, he was diagnosed of Asthma.

The cause of Asthma is mostly allergy. Takara plays cheerfully otherwise. But when he sneezes, it's watery transparent, typical allergic reaction. His way of coughing is actually very allergic as well because he always finishes his cough with sneeze like cough.

He did x-ray too to confirm he has no other chest infections such as pneumonia. The doctor thinks "Pigion chest" he has is also a sign of Asthma. He was quite puzzled and said, "His chest looks as if he's been coughing for much more than 3 weeks."

As a trigger, the doctor thinks air pollution could be the one. In the UK, the air is cleaner but here in Malaysia, it's so polluted, he said. I personally suspect it's something to do with the mould in our air conditioning and kitchen, like I think about my pneumonia. He said he could not be specific with the cause but he asked me to take care of 2 things.

One is food. Takara may be allergic to some food: soya bean, milk, wheat, egg... The other is to improve the living environment.

He said, "Ask your husband to spend more money to move to the higher floor. The air is cleaner and place is less dump." Thank you doctor, you said that for me! But I think Jason will still think "moving out to a better flat" is out of my selfishness as always he thinks whenever I bring up this subject... Well, but it's high time to think about moving seriously, I think...