Wheezing in infancy: is it asthma?

100 Vol 45 (Supplement 1) 2014 Wheezing is common symptoms throughout infancy and childhood except the neonatal period. Up to 25%-30% of infants have at least one episode of wheeze, half of whom have recurrent wheeze. Two-thirds of preschool wheezers stop wheezing by the age of six years. Although asthma is the common cause of recurrent wheezing in childhood, the younger the child the greater the chance that it is caused by other alternative diagnosis, for example, anatomical defect or other systemic conditions (Table 1).