Children with asthma are visiting hospitals more frequently as the temperature rises and becomes intolerable.

According to New Scientist, symptoms of the lung illness, like wheezing and dyspnea, are typically linked to cold weather in parallel with summers.

To learn more about the effects of high temperatures, Morgan Ye of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and her colleagues examined electronic health data from UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals.

The information included patient addresses and hospitalization records related to asthma.

The PRISM Climate Group at Oregon State University provided the researchers with daily temperature records at the patients’ homes from June to September between 2017 and 2020.

Heatwaves were defined by the researchers in eighteen distinct ways.

If the temperature was among the top 99%, top 97.5%, top 95%, and so on, it was deemed a heatwave. They achieved this by examining the temperature range that existed throughout these intervals.

As opposed to times when there wasn’t a heatwave, these temperatures were linked to an average of 19% higher odds of an asthmatic child being admitted to the hospital.