Childhood asthma is the development of asthmatic disorders in children. Childhood asthma, like adult asthma, is an incurable chronic disease that is affecting more and more children in the world today.
                                   
Experts believe that childhood asthma is becoming more prevalent in today’s world given the fact that children today are more exposed to stimulants that trigger asthma more than ever before. These stimuli include environmental allergens such as dust, air pollution, and second-hand smoke. Apart from these factors, there are other risk factors that may contribute the development of asthma in children. These risk factors may include the presence of allergies and frequent respiratory infections in children, low birth weight, or family history of asthmatic disorders. Moreover, it has also been seen that children, who are brought up in a low-income environment are also susceptible to the development of childhood asthma.

Childhood asthma can depict the same common symptoms as with any other type of asthma, including, coughing, wheezing, shortness of breath and feeling of tightness in the throat and chest. The symptoms, of course, can vary from child to child, and so it is important to seek medical help whenever a child is facing breathing difficulties, that hamper his/her normal, everyday life.