There are steps you can take towards controlling it. More than four million kids in this country have asthma, and that number is on the rise. Asthma restricts breathing by tightening the airways.
Experts say a persistent cough is often the first sign, and there are others.
Although asthma can't be cured, your child's doctor can help you get it under control. Day Care Benefits Day care at an early age could have health benefits later in life. Children who attend day care may appear to get sick more often than their peers, but this early exposure to illness appears to provide immunity for the future. Children who attended day care during the first year of life even had fewer allergy problems. German researchers noted that children who started day care before they turned one had half the allergy problems of those who started after the age of one.