Tuomas JarttiDepartment of Pediatrics Turku University Hospital Turku FinlandJohn Wiley & Sons, LtdPediatric Allergy and ImmunologyElenius, V. & Jartti, T. Vaccines: could asthma in young children be a preventable disease?. Pediatr. Allergy Immunol. 27, 682-686 (2016)....
The researchers also found that children exposed to higher levels of fine particulate air pollution (PM2.5) were more likely to develop asthma and wheezing than those who weren't exposed. In people with asthma, the airways become inflamed and produce extra mucus, which makes it difficult to bre...
Children were most susceptible to developingasthmawith mold exposure during their first two years of life, or if they already had allergies. However, mold did not increasechildren's risk of developing allergies in the first place. "The most significant finding was that moisture damage with or wit...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- Children with asthma may be at higher obesity risk later in childhood or in adolescence, according to new research published online this week. Researchers from the University of Southern California found that young children with asthma were 51 percent more likely ...
children aged 12 to 59 months who required step 2 asthma therapy, including those who were naive to inhaled corticosteroids (ICSs) and leukotriene receptor antagonist (LTRA) medications and those who had been treated with low-dose ICSs or LTRAs at any point in the 6 months before enrollment...
Researchers at the University of Otago, Wellington (UOW) have shown that leaking and mouldy homes may lead to the development of a first attack of asthma in young children living in them. "We have known for a long time that damp and mould will make asthma worse if you already have it ...
Childhood asthma is defined as asthma in children, infants, or toddlers. Learn more about the causes, triggers, risk factors, symptoms, diagnosis, treatments, medications, complications, prevention, and outlook for childhood asthma.
Asthma diagnosis in children aged ≤5 years can be based on symptom patterns, the presence of risk factors, therapeutic response to controller treatment, and exclusion of alternative diagnosesA diagnosis of asthma in young children with a history of wheezing is more likely if they have wheezing ...
Asthma is a chronic disease that has a significant impact on quality of life and is particularly important in children and adolescents, in part due to the
Many young children and infants wheeze during viral infections of the respiratory tract. The differential diagnosis of those children includes the inhalation of a foreign body. This diagnosis is overlooked in about 20% of cases, which leads to subacute and chronic complications. Two clinical observati...