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Allergic diseases in children: body and mind in asthmaEmotions influence bodily health because mind and body work together as one unit and not as two separate entities. Emphasis on the physical aspects in the diagnosis and treatment of asthma has come about because the emotional factors are difficult to define and are often misleading. Asthma comes about through a predisposition caused by constitution, heredity, frequent respiratory infections, and exposure to allergens; once this predisposition has been established, an asthma attack may be caused by allergic factors, by emotional factors, or by a combination of both. If the emotions are strong, they may blur the allergic picture and become the main cause of asthma. As a consequence, asthma caused by allergy and complicated by emotions needs two approaches in its treatment: a physical one for the changes brought about by allergy and a psychiatric one to soothe the emotions (the purpose is to "cure" the whole child and not just his asthma). Psychiatry uses a wide range of procedures from guidance to reassurance, to analysis, to group therapy. Regardless of the method used, an effort would have to be made to understand the personality structure of the child in order to discover the relationship between his thoughts and acts and how they are influenced by his illness. The purpose of psychiatry would then be to establish maturity, insight, a strengthened ego, and an increase in personal security. Parentectomy is a long separation of an asthmatic child from his parents. Children who need parentectomy usually come from broken homes in which love and attention to the needs of a sick child are missing; they bring on illness in an unconscious attempt to soothe their emotional needs, while their parents compensate for their guilty feelings by overmedication. In parentectomy, children are made to live outside their homes for two years with a normal family who will provide them with the love and support they are lacking. During these two years, the parents must obtain family counseling in order to have a more relaxed atmosphere in the house when the child returns. Hypnosis was a useful tool in the treatment of chronic asthma before the discovery of corticosteroids and tranquilizers because it eased the anxieties that usually accompanied it. Today, it has lost its importance because it is a lengthy and costly procedure that cannot alter an immunological state. *53/99/5* ALLERGIES «Pain Medications Without a Prescription»  PrintViewed: 250
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