Relationship with Cockroach Asthma

In the past few decades, the number of cases of asthma especially among children who lived in central cities increased drastically. Asthma is a chronic disease most commonly occurs in childhood. One potential cause of increased asthma in young children is the number of cockroaches. Since a long time many researchers allergy and asthma experts suspect a close relationship between cockroaches and asthma in the city center.

Attention to cockroaches as a trigger of asthma occurred when the researchers explain the increase in asthma worldwide. Other hypotheses include an increase in air pollution, changes in ozone levels, and increasing the time people spend indoors, where a large number of allergens and whereabouts in a long time. Now the researchers can test several possibilities by using different sample collection techniques developed in recent years. All these techniques can measure the number of allergens including cockroach body parts and feces on indoor air and dust.

Unfortunately, not easy to eradicate cockroaches. Roaches very agile and can be found throughout the apartment building or in building houses. In addition, cockroaches easily return to the place before they were exterminated. While there is no perfect solution, but there are preventive measures, such as clean food, store food in closed containers, and using roach traps and pesticides are safe.