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The diagnosis of wheezing in children.
Wheezing in children is a common problem encountered by family physicians. Approximately 25 to 30 percent of infants will have at least one wheezing episode, and nearly one half of children have a history of wheezing by six years of age. The most common causes of wheezing in children include asthma, allergies, infections, gastroesophageal reflux disease, and obstructive sleep apnea. Less common...
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In the Childhood Asthma Management Program study of school-aged children with established mild-to-moderate persistent asthma, twice-daily therapy with inhaled corticosteroids controlled symptoms of asthma but slightly reduced height growth and did not improve lung growth or affect the natural course of the disease.1 In this issue of the Journal, two studies involving young children2,3 test the ...
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OBJECTIVE To examine the serum retinol levels of wheezing children, and to investigate the relation as an biochemical indicator of vitamin A status in wheezing children between serum levels of retinol and severity of wheezing. METHODS A prospective cohort study including 400 wheezing Saudi children aged 3-36 months, who were treated in the pediatrics ward of Ohoud Public Hospital in Al-Madina...
متن کاملAsthma and other wheezing disorders in children.
QUESTIONS What are the effects of treatments for acute asthma in children?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 What are the effects of single agent prophylaxis in children taking as needed inhaled beta agonists for asthma?. 1 0 What are the effects of additional prophylactic treatments in childhood asthma inadequately controlled by standard dose inhaled cort...
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To the Editor: Panickar et al. (Jan. 22 issue)1 conclude that oral prednisolone is not effective for virus-induced wheezing, and the accompanying editorial states that “it is clear that on the basis of [this study], current practice must change.”2 I disagree. The prednisolone group fared better clinically than the placebo group with respect to both the primary outcome (Table 2 of the article) a...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1976
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.1.6012.756