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The Problem Asthmatic: Some Significant Perinatal Factors
Author(s) -
McNICOL KENNETH
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
journal of paediatrics and child health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.631
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1440-1754
pISSN - 1034-4810
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1754.1976.tb02341.x
Subject(s) - medicine , asthma , anxiety , pregnancy , incidence (geometry) , pediatrics , perinatal period , early childhood , psychiatry , developmental psychology , immunology , psychology , genetics , physics , optics , biology
McNicol, K. (1976).Aust. paediat. J. , 12, 83–87. The problem asthmatic. Some significant perinatal factors. Evidence is presented which suggests that interaction between the mother and child in the early nurturing period may play an important part in determining the pattern and severity of asthma in childhood. There is a significant incidence of various difficulties from the period of the pregnancy, birth, and early weeks of the child's life in those children with early onset of asthma. These difficulties, combined with other possible factors, including a rejecting attitude to the pregnancy and depressive illness in the mother, were all present before the onset of asthma. This suggests that they may be determinants of an abnormal attitude, characterized by excessive anxiety, in the nurturing of this child, which may in turn cause early onset and determine the subsequent chronic nature and severity of the child's asthma.