BACKGROUND It has been hypothesized that day care--related infections may explain the inverse relation between day care attendance in early life and asthma in childhood. OBJECTIVE To examine the relation between day care attendance or respiratory tract illnesses in the first year of life and wheezing and asthma in the first 4 years of life among children with a parental history of atopy who w...

BACKGROUND Considerable variation in the prevalence of childhood asthma and its symptoms (wheezing) has been observed in previous studies and there is evidence that the prevalence has been increasing over time. METHODS We have systematically reviewed the reported prevalence and time trends of wheezing symptoms among children, worldwide and within the same country over time. All studies compri...

Lower respiratory tract infections associated with wheezing are not uncommon in infants and young children. Among the wheezing-associated disorders, allergic etiologies are more commonly encountered than anatomic anomalies. We present a 3-year-old girl with a sudden attack of asthmatic symptoms including dyspnea, cyanosis and diffuse wheezing Based on a history of choking, and atelectasis in th...

The general practice records of 437 children were reviewed at seven years of age. Of 369 children with complete records, 115 (31 per cent) had some record of wheeze. Over half of these had first presented before the age of three years. In terms of consultations for wheezing or lower respiratory tract illness at the ages of five to seven years, the earlier the onset of wheeze the better the prog...

Results Rapid BMIz gain was found in 45.8% infants and excessive BMI gain in 24.4%. Boys showed a significantly higher BMIz gain than girls. Girls with rapid BMIz gain showed a significantly higher prevalence of hospitalization for wheezing (8.8% vs 6.4%; aOR: 1.4, 95%CI: 1.1 to 1.8), severe wheezing (18.1% vs 15.0%; aOR: 1.3, 95%CI: 1.0 to 1.5) and medical diagnosis of asthma (7.5% vs 5.7%; aO...

OBJECTIVES To determine, in a population of predominantly Latino children with asthma 6 to 18 years old, whether parent and child reports of asthma symptoms with exercise differ and to evaluate the validity of child and parent reports of symptoms. DESIGN Data obtained from child and parent interviews; pulmonary function tests (forced vital capacity, forced expiratory volume in 1 second, force...

In some severe recurrent wheezers who do not respond to asthma medication including inhaled corticosteroids, wheezing is caused by gastroesophageal reflux (GER) [1-2]. However, physiological GER is largely recognized in younger children [3] and gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) manifests various symptoms other than wheezing [4]. It remains unclear how GER is associated with wheezing. Addit...

Family factors associated with the incidence of asthma and wheezing during childhood have been studied in a cohort of over 2000 children who, together with their families, were followed-up for five years. Episodes of wheezing not regarded by the parents as asthma had a different pattern of association with family factors to that found for asthma. The outcome of the two conditions in terms of ve...